Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman is an anthology edited by Raymond Luczak and published by Squares & Rebels in 2019, marking two centuries since the birth of Walt Whitman in 1819. Jack Fritscher contributes three poems: “This Garden Needs Hands That Aren’t Hired,” “Photo Op at Walt Whitman Junior College,” and “Asphyxia by Gentrification.” Other contributors include Edmund White, Felice Picano, Jericho Brown, and Jeff Mann.

Jack Fritscher, PhD, is an author and poet whose books include the novel Some Dance to Remember and the memoir Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera. More of his poetry in books by others: Among the Leaves, Assaracus: Issue 27, and ImageOutWrite.

Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman
Edited by Raymond Luczak
Squares & Rebels – 2019

Poetry by Jack Fritscher

“This Garden Needs Hands That Aren’t Hired“
“Photo Op at Walt Whitman Junior College“
“Asphyxia by Gentrification“

Lovejets Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman
Edited by Raymond Luczak
Squares & Rebels 2019

Poets Included in this Collection:

• Philip Dacey
• Raymond Luczak
• Michael Lassell
• Geer Austin
• Jory Mickelson
• Jericho Brown
• Frederick Speers
• David Cummer
• Timothy Liu
• Stephen S. Mills
• Davis G. See
• Mutsuo Takahashi
• Gregg Shapiro
• Jeffery Beam
• Alex Gildzen
• Shane Allison
• Arthur Durkee
• Stuart Barnes
• Christopher Records
• Philip F. Clark
• Jim Elledge
• Jee Leong Koh
• Trebor Healey
• Patrick Donnelly
• Atsusuke Tanaka
• Nicholas Alexander Hayes
• Keith Garebian
• David Trinidad
• Charlie Bondhus
• Scott Hightower
• Ulysses Tetu
• Herbert Woodward Martin
• Curran Jeffery
  
• Walter Holland
  
• Jeffery Conway
  
• Andrew Howdle
  
• Alfred Corn
  
• Guy Terrell
  
• Dermot Meagher
  
• P. C. Scearce
  
• Scott Wiggerman
  
• Travis Chi Wing Lau
  
• Edmund White
  
• Seth Pennington
  
• Daniel W.K. Lee
  
• William Reichard
  
• Chip Livingston
  
• M. J. Arcangelini
  
• Felice Picano
  
• Chael Needle
  
• Mark Ward
  
• Jaime Manrique
  
• Martin Pousson
  
• James Penha
  
• Robert L. Giron
  
• A. J. Chilson
  
• Rocco Russo
  
• Gerard Sarnat
  
• Malcolm Stuhlmiller
  
• Jeff Mann
  
• Allen Smith
  
• Michael Kiesow Moore
  
• Jim Wise
  
• Roberto F. Santiago
  
• John Whittier Treat
  
• Ben Shields
  
• Eric Thomas Norris
  
• George K. Ilsley
  
• SP Mulroy
  
• Jack Fritscher
  
• Michael D. Snediker
  
• Dennis Rhodes
  
• James Schwartz
  
• Gary Boelhower
  
• Greg Hewett
  
• Raymond Luczak
  
• Bryan Borland
  
• Cyril Wong
  
• David J. Bauman
  
• David Groff
  
• Marcos I. Martinez
  
• Michael Hyde
  
• Ian Young
  
• Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
  
• Walt Whitman