“Caprice” by Maureen Seaton
from Pride of Voice, Voice of Pride, the 2000 Pride reading at Women & Children First Books in Chicago (archived at e-poets.net)

      Pride is nothing without humor, & for Pride Week we can think of nothing funnier & truer to listen to than Maureen Seaton’s tale of the sexual politics between Olive Oyl, Popeye & “others.”

• Coleman Barks, “Spring Morning”
• Ernie Cline, “Tech Support”
• Emily Dickinson, “I cannot live with You”
• GNO, Jason Carney & Jason Edwards (Team Dallas 1998), “Superheroes”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player”
• June Melby, “Dust”
• Tracie Morris, “Chain Gang”
• Sylvia Plath, “On the Decline of Oracles”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
• John Powers, “Thayer Street Blues”
• Molly Raynor, “Wings”
• Lizzie Wann, “Patricia Said”