Big Gay Appalachian. Cat person.
Author of Gay Poems for Red States.
Kentucky Colonel. Kentucky Teacher of the Year.
Tweets are mine. All pronouns cool.
@williecarver.bsky.socialThank you for featuring me!
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr
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@westtradereview.bsky.socialReposted by @williecarver.bsky.socialWe’re excited to present the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Cordero Estremera; @williecarver.bsky.social , Kandala Singh, and Nicole Dalcourt; fiction by Susthanth Shyamsundar; CNF by Emile Estrada.
Read the collection here:
@williecarver.bsky.socialThe next time you think a kid is just "being defiant"— remind yourself that "Simon says" was LITERALLY a cognitively challenging game until like 4th grade.
@friction.bsky.socialReposted by @williecarver.bsky.socialHappiness is floor to ceiling bookshelves. Wore my The Death Penalty Kills people shirt out today. Proponents of state sanctioned killing imagine removing contagion maybe, just desserts, or righteous punishment. I cannot but see the torment of people unable to resist a system that overpowers them.
@williecarver.bsky.socialFor Courtney, who flaises with prooth and lutches not.
@williecarver.bsky.socialThere's a special moment in every teacher's life when one of his former gaylings grows up to meet a young man who charms him with a bouquet of flowers & a collection of gay Appalachian poetry that just happens to have been written by their former teacher. Today's that day. Name anything sweeter 💜
@westtradereview.bsky.socialReposted by @williecarver.bsky.social“I know I ain’t smart
and I don’t know nothing
when it comes to poetry,
but I did—
I bawled my eyes out.”
Excerpt from @williecarver.bsky.social's “Ars Audiendi.” It appears in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives.
Listen to Willie read the full poem at the link below:
@williecarver.bsky.social😂
@williecarver.bsky.socialIt was my pleasure. And you're right about this community!
@williecarver.bsky.socialWell dammit. I missed my chance.
@williecarver.bsky.socialA poem for my beloved kin at Pikeville Pride. I want to say that I cowrote this poem with two entities sharing their opinions on the meaning of God's love: the Apostle John, son of Zebedee, and folks who spent the day commenting on social media. All my love to all of y'all 💓
