Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: All Our Daddies-and Then Some - Jim Elledge and David Groff -- Culture Club in Space: An Anecdotal Poetics - Benjamin S. Grossberg -- Walt Whitman: Glow on the Extremest Verge - Mark Doty -- Latin Moon Daddy - Charles Rice-González -- Makinga Man Out of Me - Richard Blanco -- Under the Influence - Chip Livingston -- My Mother's Grave Is Yellow - Dale Peck -- Some Notes, Thoughts, Recollections, Revisions, and Corrections Regarding Becoming, Being, and Remaining a Gay Writer - Justin Chin -- My Three Dads - Charles Jensen -- Orpheus in Texas - Saeed Jones -- "It does not have to be yours" - Mark Bibbins -- A Hidden Life (On Joy Williams) - Paul Lisicky -- Positively Not: A Talk about Poetries and Traditions - Brian Teare -- Romantic - Jeff Mann -- The Tallahatchie Meets the Arve, or Unexpected Gay Confluences in the '70s - Greg Hewett -- How I Learned to Drive: The Education of a Gay Disabled Writer - Kenny Fries -- How to Skin a Deer - Martin Hyatt -- The Little Girls with Penises - Jim Elledge -- Oubloir - David McConnell -- Beloved Jotoranos - Rigoberto González -- Leaving Berlin - Ellery Washington -- Teenage Riot: Notes on Some Books That Guided Me through a Profoundly Hormonal Time - Alistair McCartney -- My Radical Dads - David Groff -- The Mentor I Never Met: Janet Frame - Aaron Hamburger -- The Case of the Undone Novel - Richard McCann -- Fugitives - James Allen Hall -- Some Notes on Influences or Why I Am Not Objective - Michael Klein -- I Will Tell This Story the Way I Choose - Shaun Levin -- Thom Gunn: A Memoir of Reading - Randall Mann -- Queering an Italian American Poetic Legacy - Peter Covino -- Vanity Fairey Interviews Writer Noël Alumit - Noël Alumit -- The Four of Them - Thomas Glave -- Jumpstart - Tim Miller -- Caliban - Dave King.

My First Poetic Mentor Was a Welshman Named Leslie - Timothy Liu -- The World Is Full of Orphans - Raymond Luczak -- The Seismology of Love and Letters - Brian Leung -- Botticelli Boy - Rick Barot -- Miss Thing - Paul Bonin-Rodriguez -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Father - K. M. Soehnlein -- Contributors.