full-metal indigiqueer

Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer is inspired by love, identity, and the Internet

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor I often find poetry to be a difficult medium of literature to digest. I think, as for many of us, this largely comes from an understanding that poetry is not really meant to be understood or read for fun. As we are force-fed Shakespeare and Milton throughout high school, we learn that poetry is not something to have fun with but rather something to sit in the classroom and analyze. It’s an ivory-tower pursuit wholly detached from the real world. However, most writers of poetry will tell you, and books like full-metal indigiqueer will show…

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