POETRY | FREE AIR BY JOE WENKE

About the author:

"DR. JOE WENKE, an outspoken and articulate LGBT rights activist, is the owner and managing partner of Xperience, a multi-million dollar marketing communications and production company with offices in New York, Boston and Detroit. He is also the founder and publisher of Trans Über, a publishing company with a focus on LBGT rights and promoting freedom and equality for all people.

Joe has written several books including: Mailer's America, You Got to Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of The Bible, Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church, The Talk Show, a Novel (October 2014) and The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (January 2015)"

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My take on this collection:

★★★☆☆

*80 pages in this collection, btw*

The early poems make it seem like the collection will have strong potential, but later on... while many are cutesy and fun, or have a good line here or there, some are just silly or odd. I will say, the man liked his acronyms in this lot! Standout poems for me: "Bright Green Eyes", "Loner", and "Waiting".

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