Brandon Menke + Jahan Khajavi

Brandon Menke is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale, where he writes about lyric form, regionalist aesthetics, and networks of queer intimacy in American literature and visual art in the twentieth century. Jahan Khajavi writes “wildly amusing & explicit queer poetry” (Vogue). Brandon received his MFA from NYU, and he is currently an Assistant Editor at The Yale Review. Recent poems by Jahan can be found or are forthcoming in 14poems, Split Lip, Baest, and the Foglifter anthology Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. Their collaborative poems, which mine the deep cultural archive of homoerotic imagery in the Wild West, can be found in Denver Quarterly and Columbia Journal.