"This is not a story of New York, where people come there from their hometown and use sexual identity to meet people in a new city...This is a place where your sexuality is operating amongst family relationships, ethnic relationships and neighborhood relationships. All of these things are very closely intertwined, and if you're going to do anything in this city, it's going to involve your family at some point. What we're trying to do is to take a history that's not just a gay history, but it's a Pittsburgh history. It's a Pittsburgh history of gayness; you just can't separate the two."

...from Atlanta to Detroit to San Bernardino to New York, many U.S. cities elected a new mayor on Tuesday—and apathy continues to reign supreme.

Hayes’s work is terrific...it’s grounded in narrative even as it’s linguistically dense and playful, with allusions to formal verse traditions and to pop culture new and old. There’s an appealing restlessness and reach and witty musicality...with meanings that can explode in a thousand directions in every line...I like to think of them as the A.D.D. poets...

the Carnegie Mellon professor explains why poetry, why Pittsburgh, and reads some of his poetry with jazz accompaniment.