Short Film Starring My Beloved¿s Red Bronco av K. Iver

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<p><span><b><i>Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco</i></b></span><span><b>, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry,<i></i>is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love.</b></span></p><p><span> </span><span>In small-town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child “assigned ‘woman’” and a boy “forced to call / himself a girl” love one another—from afar, behind closed doors, in motels. The child survives an injurious mother and the beast-shaped men she brings home; the boy becomes a soldier. Years later, the boy—the eponymous beloved, Missy—dies by suicide, kicking up a riptide of memory. This is where K. Iver writes, at the confluence of love poem and elegy.</span></p><p><span> </span><span>“I say to the water if you were here, / you’d be here.” With cinematic precision, they conjure dorm-room landlines