Tim Dlugos Interview — COURT GREEN

On March 29, 1985, journalist Terry Gross interviewed poet Tim Dlugos for her radio program Fresh Air, produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia. Dlugos, who was living in New York at the time, was in Philadelphia to give a poetry reading. This is one of the few surviving audio interviews with Dlugos, and possibly the most substantial. He reads a few recent poems and then talks with Gross about the New York School poets, gay poetry, politics, religion, and his own work.

—David Trinidad

Tim Dlugos was a prominent younger poet who was active in both the Mass Transit poetry scene in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s and New York’s downtown literary scene in the late seventies and eighties. His books include Je Suis Ein Americano (Little Caesar Press, 1979), Entre Nous (Little Caesar, 1982), and Strong Place (Amethyst Press, 1992). He died of AIDS on December 3, 1990, at the age of forty. At the time of his death, he was pursuing graduate studies at Yale Divinity School. A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad and published by Nightboat Books in 2011, won a Lambda Literary Award.