Joe Milford Hosts Dustin Brookshire!

Dustin Brookshire is a poet and activist living in Atlanta, Georgia. He's the founder and editor of Limp Wrist, an online magazine with queer sensibility. Through Limp Wrist, Dustin has started a scholarship that is open to LGBT high school juniors and seniors. Dustin also keeps busy with such projects as Quarrel, Project Verse, a new anthology titled Queens of Poetry, and maintaining his blog, I Was Born Doing Reference Work in Sin. His work has appeared in Ouroboros, OCHO, Subtle Tea, Atlanta Rainbow Muse, David, and he has received awards from state poetry societies. When Dustin is not working on poetry projects, he occupies his time with serving on the Atlanta Pride Committee as well as the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival Committee and keeping Georgia's elected officials on their toes. Besides reading Limp Wrist and I Was Born Doing Work in Sin religiously, Dustin wants you to read Beth Gylys's Bodies that Hum, Denise Duhamel's Kinky, and Marilyn Nelson's The Field of Praise: New and Selected Poems.