Letter from the Guest Editor Robbie Hess __________ Happy Pride everyone! I have been struggling all month to write this little letter introducing the Pride issue of Boudin. There is so much going on in the world and in this country right now that I have found it difficult to…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ Boudin, in my eyes, represents opportunity. McNeese MFA students have the opportunity to guest edit an issue from start to finish: they craft the CFS, make the selections, build the issue in WordPress, and handle everything in between. With those carefully-chosen calls-for-submission,…
Read MoreUnconditionally Loved Nicole R. Zimmerman __________ My brother believes I was created to find ultimate fulfillment with a Godly man, not a woman. “Many parents of homosexuals embrace their children,” he said one evening at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. “But that’s the wrong way to love them.” Our father,…
Read MoreCracked Nonah Palmer __________ The egg, as a biological entity, is pretty simple to grasp. Families the world over are familiar with it. The humble chicken egg is a staple of breakfast, lunch, dinner, of Easter pageantry, of overhand vandalism and elementary science experiments. The American Egg Board, in the…
Read MoreHow to Knit a Trans-Solidarity Scarf Robbie Gamble __________ I’m a guy who likes to knit. I have a trans daughter, who I love dearly. I started knitting way back in college, to have something creative to occupy my hands, and I’ve enjoyed knitting sweaters and mittens for friends and…
Read MoreBra Lola Willis __________ I turn the remains in my grieving fingers, black satin thinning, dotted by tiny specks of pink lint. He outlived the pronouns you tossed into the mouth of the beast along with the last scratches of your identity: Army-green jacket, bruised guitar, scarf paint-stained, broken phone—what…
Read MoreQueer Pursuits, Lights the Moon to Spite the Sun, & Mood 48 Is A Gay One Bradley David Waters __________ Queer Pursuits You know that grumbling truck The one with scowling headlights and cow-catcher grill You’ll never catch me I say Pinned in its radiator …
Read MoreLazarus & The First Books They Burned Francis Waguespack __________ LazarusThe morning after the floodwaters recede, my neighbor’s chickens are loose on our street, red hens stepping gingerly over debris, unexpectedly dignified. The elder next door, Ms. Josephine, calls out from her porch: “They survived! Look at them struuuuuuuttin!” Her voice carries across the mud-slick…
Read MoreWolf Moon, 1986 & Blood Moon, 2025 Daniel Nathan Terry __________ Wolf Moon, 1986 There is little a lonely boy will refuse. Littlehe’ll protect. Almost nothing he’ll turn down. Kisses alone he’ll withhold. Only girls kiss boys. I knewwhy other boys turned my head each time I tried to show them love. Wasn’t gay to…
Read Morepoem after a student at my university got on the mic at graduation and said trans people didn’t exist & poem as instructions for survival nat raum __________ poem after a student at my university got on the mic at graduation and said trans people didn’t exist An American sonnet…
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