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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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Kevin Sessums
Age: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.
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That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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