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Mrs. Kirby has held leadership roles with the Oklahoma City Flower and Garden Festival and P.E.O., Chapter CK, where she served as treasurer and recording secretary. She served on the board of directors for the Oklahoma Society to Avoid Blindness and was awarded the Volunteer of the Year. Mrs. Kirby was president of the Junior Hospitality Club and served on the Women’s Committee of the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra and had an active role on the Decorator Showhouse Committee for several years. She served on the board of directors for the Arts Council Oklahoma City and served as Festifall chairman, Wintertales chairman, and chairman of the Festival of the Arts.
She was an active participant in the Oklahoma American Cancer Society, Stop Blindness Oklahoma and Rainbow Fleet. Mrs. Kirby was also a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Oklahoma County and was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from CASA. In addition, she was very involved in Heritage Hall where she served as a Trustee for several years, as well as at Casady School where she served in the leadership of the Mothers Club (CPO) and served as Book Impartial chairman. She is actively inv
"Don’t Worry, I Won’t Tell Anybody" Study an Excerpt from Kirby's Unmissable Recent Book, Poetry is Queer
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As the publisher of Toronto's beloved knife | fork | book, Kirby is acclaimed for both for their own poetry, which often celebrates gender non-conforming love and lust against a backdrop of the stridently heteronormative world, and their tireless labor for other writers running events, publishing chapbooks, hosting workshops, and more.
Their newest book, Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press) is a vibrant genre-blurring project that is combines fiction, poetry, and memoir in a fevered, innovative romp through the poetic past that swings between pleasure, dark wit, and arresting insight.
Through the lens of poetry, we met lovers, partners, and friends as well as untouchable, famous fixations and cherished icons, all rendered in Kirby's crisp prose.
We're proud to deliver an exclusive excerpt here today from Poetry is Queer, in which we get a glimpse of preceding, formative poems that affected Kirby, the complexities of adolescent crushes for gender non-conforming youth, and the fatigue that comes with the never-ending battle for security for the gender non-conforming community.
Excerpt from P
Robert Kirby
'Curbside'.
Minneapolis-based artist Robert Kirby is one of the main representatives of the US gay comic scene since the 1990s. After self-publishing the zine Strange Looking Exile, he launched the anthology series 'Boy Trouble', of which five installments appeared between 1994 and 2004. His best-known creation is the syndicated comic 'Curbside', about an aspiring writer and an aspiring musician, that ran in the gay and alternative presses from 1991 to 2008. This included publications in Chicago Nightlines, Out In The Mountains, Lavender Magazine and the internet, as well as two book collections. Kirby is also a regular contributor to Jennifer Camper's queer comic anthology series 'Juicy Mother, and the creator of the comics anthologies THREE (2010-2012) and QU33R (2014).
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Last updated: 2024-09-17
Queer singer/songwriter Katy Kirby is correct ‘Blue’
It’s only mid-February, but there’s no doubt that the album “Blue Raspberry” (Anti-) by out singer/songwriter Katy Kirby is already one of the best of 2024. Texas-native Kirby, now based in Nashville, is a characteristic young songwriter, and she performs her songs with a confidence that belies her age.
In the “Thank Yous” for the “Blue Raspberry” liner notes, Kirby mentions “the archives of Arthur Russell at the New York Widespread Library for the Performing Arts.” A longtime fan of the late gay Russell’s songwriting, she found out through a comrade of a friend that the New York Public Library had received his archives recently and had started opening them to the public.
“My guitar player and producer Logan (Chung) did the bureaucratic research to figure out how to get in there,” Kirby told Gay Urban area News. “Those librarians were so helpful. They want people to see it. It was so exciting. We got to perceive a bunch of demo tapes and stuff from sessions. If I’m just basing it off his scribbled notes, he was just as wacky of a guy as one might consider. It made me feel very seen.”
Kirby includes Angel Olsen amon
Robert Kirby
'Curbside'.
Minneapolis-based artist Robert Kirby is one of the main representatives of the US gay comic scene since the 1990s. After self-publishing the zine Strange Looking Exile, he launched the anthology series 'Boy Trouble', of which five installments appeared between 1994 and 2004. His best-known creation is the syndicated comic 'Curbside', about an aspiring writer and an aspiring musician, that ran in the gay and alternative presses from 1991 to 2008. This included publications in Chicago Nightlines, Out In The Mountains, Lavender Magazine and the internet, as well as two book collections. Kirby is also a regular contributor to Jennifer Camper's queer comic anthology series 'Juicy Mother, and the creator of the comics anthologies THREE (2010-2012) and QU33R (2014).
www.robkirbycomics.com
Website © 1994-2025 Lambiek
Last updated: 2024-09-17
Queer singer/songwriter Katy Kirby is correct ‘Blue’
It’s only mid-February, but there’s no doubt that the album “Blue Raspberry” (Anti-) by out singer/songwriter Katy Kirby is already one of the best of 2024. Texas-native Kirby, now based in Nashville, is a characteristic young songwriter, and she performs her songs with a confidence that belies her age.
In the “Thank Yous” for the “Blue Raspberry” liner notes, Kirby mentions “the archives of Arthur Russell at the New York Widespread Library for the Performing Arts.” A longtime fan of the late gay Russell’s songwriting, she found out through a comrade of a friend that the New York Public Library had received his archives recently and had started opening them to the public.
“My guitar player and producer Logan (Chung) did the bureaucratic research to figure out how to get in there,” Kirby told Gay Urban area News. “Those librarians were so helpful. They want people to see it. It was so exciting. We got to perceive a bunch of demo tapes and stuff from sessions. If I’m just basing it off his scribbled notes, he was just as wacky of a guy as one might consider. It made me feel very seen.”
Kirby includes Angel Olsen amon