Erotic Poetry
Volume 38, Number 8
September-October 2017
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Anthony Madrid’s Introduction to Focus: Erotic Poetry
Robert Archambeau’s “A Feminine Canaan”
Daniel Bosch’s “There Once was No Girl from the Vineyard”
David Gorin’s “Sex Poetry: A Guide for Teachers”
Paul Grimstad’s “Notes on a New Volume of Fauvemann’s Nachlass”
Robert Koeneke’s “Some thoughts on Erotic Poetry”
Megan Levad’s “Let Me Let Me Let Me”
Adrienne Raphel’s “Erotic Zygote: ‘Leda and the Swan'”
Nausicaa Renner’s “Why Women Burn So Bright They Melt”
Amanda Smeltz’s “Some Thoughts in Favor of Erotic Poetry”
Stu Watson’s “The Union of Eros and Thanatos”
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