Boston Gordon (he/they) is a poet, communications professional, and designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He is the author of the chapbook Glory Holes out now from Harbor Editions. He runs the You Can't Kill A Poet reading series—which highlights queer and trans identified writers in Philadelphia. They have poems published in many places like Guernica, American Poetry Review, and Best New Poets.
He runs all communications for Philadelphia Legal Assistance and for the You Can’t Kill a Poet reading series. He also offers freelance social media communications support and management for organizations looking to launch or rejuvenate their online presence.
Praise for Glory Holes:
Here are Boston Gordon’s poems: glory holes, each of them, with a waiting want on the other side. Where anything worth praying to is also worth desiring in lush quantity: “When you kissed / you remembered the prayers, and also / the dream.” Where we, the reader and the omnipresent, get smoked and listened to: “look, it’s the bad alleyway with the bathhouse. / Steam and men slink through the door cracks, hot.” Where “the other is howling, maybe.”
What joy and ache live in these lines and the spaces surrounding them. What a call to a world, a howling other, which lives in the dark and cracked recesses of ourselves—which is to say, all those who need it, need only read these words, close their eyes, say “comeback. Take up my space. Everyone is leaving.”
–July Westhale, author of Trailer Trash, Via Negativa, and bright news like gladiolas
Boston Gordon’s poems whistle a queer urgency that aches with desire. Here is a speaker who interrogates masculinity while simultaneously flaunting it, fearing it, and finding themself aroused by it. Tender, vulnerable, and gritty, these poems sing unapologetically of spitting and blow jobs and sex work and the strangeness of having a body.
–Lisa Summe, author of Say It Hurts
You Can’t Kill a Poet
About
Founded in 2014, You Can’t Kill a Poet is a regular reading series highlighting queer and/or trans-identified writers and poets. Regularly hosted at Tattooed Mom, but traveling around the city, the series seeks to be an enthusiastic and exuberant outlet for LGBTQ poets wanting to find a space for themselves.
Save the date for You Can’t Kill a Poet on November 15th!
We’re back at our usual host spot at Tattooed Mom! Join us on November 15th, 2023 at 7:30PM for a boisterous night of poetry! Reader’s list to come soon! 21+, Free to attend!
Other Publications
Sugar Bottom Tee Club
Creative, humorous, and stylish, LGBTQ+ pride shirts for all the people in your life designed by Boston Gordon.
Social Media Communications
“I am a social media communications manager and freelance consultant with a passion for creatively telling the story of an organization.”
Design Work
“I have seen and experienced the frustrations and roadblocks change-makers contend with caused by inaccessible technology, limited tools for engagement, and a lack of comprehensive and modern resources.”