David Hatfield Sparks | Updates

"Hecklers and Christians"

David Hatfield Sparks — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:21:44 -0400

My essay in "First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far" edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/F/First-Person-Queer

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Anthologies and the Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/Lesbian

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to "passing" as straight, to the devastation of meth addiction, to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary queer life--and by definition, are funny, sad, hopeful, and truthful.

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"Tell Me About It: Bits of a Memoir"

David Hatfield Sparks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:44:21 -0400

in Tell Me About It 3: LGBTQ Secrets, Confessions, and Life Stories. Edited by St. Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen. Palm Springs, CA: Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2020. https://rattlinggoodyarns.com/product/tell-me-about-it-3/

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“Mea Culpa,” and “To Mariah from her Faggot Father,”

David Hatfield Sparks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:37:04 -0400

in Stepping on Legos. Gnashing Teeth Publishing, July 2022

https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/stepping-on-legos/?srsltid=AfmBOopLkEZ9aRbzfjTmfFiHEYXy0Nw2m79tyEiUxFqGRnSUmJWJ1N23

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“To Ambi Sextrous, Judy Garland, with apologies to Frédéric Chopin,”

David Hatfield Sparks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:34:09 -0400

poem in ArLiJo: the Arlington literary journal (Issue 184) Sept 1, 2023. https://www.arlijo.com/post/issue-184

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"Un Grito for GEA"

David Hatfield Sparks — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:02:42 -0400

In IMANIMAN: POETS WRITING IN THE ANZALDÚAN BORDERLANDS. Edited by ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera / In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire’ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized, explored, and invented. https://www.auntlute.com/imaniman

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