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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
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When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?
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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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