Octavio R Gonzalez
@TaviRGonzalez
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professor, poet, literary critic, raconteur, ex-fashionista, pop-culture junkie & interpreter of dreams
East Coast, USA
Joined February 2012
I just want to signal-boost this review of my book #misfitmodernism @PSUPress by @PDabashi. #thankyou! I feel #seen. Review | Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
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Today is Giving Tuesday! Please help out @OUTMetroWest with our matching $13,000 campaign! A generous donor has pledged to match if we raise $7,500 — $13,000 for the 13 years OUT MetroWest has been serving LGBTQ+ youth!
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Fantastic @nytimes article by @derrickbryson on the "Queer" Harlem of the 1920s, '30s, and beyond... with some juicy quotes from yours truly! When Harlem Was ‘as Gay as It Was Black’
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Mapping the people, homes and hot spots that transformed Harlem during its Renaissance.
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April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, @WellesleyBooks will be hosting an event with Wellesley College professor @TaviRGonzalez to discuss his new collection "Limerence" on April 22. Learn more and RSVP:
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We are live with Episode 2 of #2Authors2Books podcast! @MModernity !
Episode 2 of "2 Authors 2 Books" hosted and produced by @TaviRGonzalez, is now available on Apple Podcasts and as a download and transcript on Print Plus. Listen to Joseph Cermatori and Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen here: https://t.co/Cxeg7mK2AB
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Episode 2 of "2 Authors 2 Books" hosted and produced by @TaviRGonzalez, is now available on Apple Podcasts and as a download and transcript on Print Plus. Listen to Joseph Cermatori and Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen here: https://t.co/Cxeg7mK2AB
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An excerpt from Octavio R. González (@TaviRGonzalez)'s "Conversations with My Father" is our latest in poetry, and is the final selection by July poetry curator Jason Schneiderman (@kafkaboy). https://t.co/lp0TfdO9Dl
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Yes!!!!!
Hoping to see some of you at the excellent 'Pedagogy and Race in Modernist Studies' Roundtable that @TaviRGonzalez has organized as part of the ongoing Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies Symposia Tu 8/1 at 10am ET! #DifficultMod @msatweet
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So excited to share this - from a work in progress. #latinxpoetry @ThePublicSquare @kafkaboy @RebelSatori
An excerpt from Octavio R. González (@TaviRGonzalez)'s "Conversations with My Father" is our latest in poetry, and is the final selection by July poetry curator Jason Schneiderman (@kafkaboy). https://t.co/lp0TfdO9Dl
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Please support LGBTQ youth. In this political climate they need our help more than ever!
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Please support LGBTQ youth. In this political climate they need our help more than ever!
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This is amazing, #2Authors2Books is my inaugural public humanities podcast now hosted by @MModernity on their PrintPlus platform. Also available on @ApplePodcasts! Episode 1 transcript and audio available now. Funded by @MellonFdn and the UNH humanities institute
We are pleased to share a brand new series, 2 Authors 2 Books! 2 A 2 B, a public humanities podcast, is available on Apple Podcasts and as a download and transcript on Print Plus. Find Ep. 1, featuring series editor @TaviRGonzalez and Philip Tsang, here:
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Poetry https://t.co/0q8BJL4agk tomorrow at 6pm! Reading from #limerence alongside poetry legends #MarkDoty and #MarthaRhodes @RUwritershouse @bryantparknyc @kafkaboy
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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer
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Trump hosted Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed Black Lives Matter protesters. Greg Abbott wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester. Ron DeSantis is fundraising for Daniel Penny, who killed a Black man on a subway. This is the Republican Party.
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If you picked up a copy of #limerence @RebelSatori press you will note p.64 ends with this couplet. Here is the piece i created from it:
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Please consider purchasing “limerence” my debut full length collection of #poetry “Every gay man should read this book.” #queerlatino
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Explore the poetry of Octavio R. González, a celebrated author and educator on American queer literature. lose yourself in his words!
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I love this cover. I met @alightupon at the @LambdaLiterary emerging writers workshop.
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In 2019, @EduardoCCorral—one of the poets I most admire—wrote this on the first draft of my book. I often looked back on it for warmth as I refined the work. Eventually, asked him if I could use it as a "blurb"... Thanks for helping speak this into being, endless generous friend.
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