Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry collection Cool Limbo (NYQ Books) and the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press). Recently his work has appeared in Cortland Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Hotel America, Gay and Lesbian Review […]
Michael Montlack
Michael Montlack: Karen
What age, outfit, expression will be there at the gate? Not the last you: limbs clenched, refusing to release your essence. And not the anxious twenty-something whose husband bolts post-diagnosis. How about the high-schooler with Mae West lips and a face skinny girls envy, lip-lining perfectly during a parallel park, the not-yet-released U2 single blaring […]