We interview Kevin Kantor about their new poetry collection, Please Come Off-Book. Using their personal experience as an actor, Kevin explores gender, family, and art-making (all the good stuff) through the lens of the American theatre tradition.

We talk to Kevin about the complicated aftermath of going viral from a traumatic poem, the nuances of being a trans non-binary theatre maker, and why we’re over straight actors playing queer (@ Timothée Chalamet). We also discuss our shared love of the 1954 Filmed Stage Production of Peter Pan Starring Mary Martin. If that unlocked a gay memory for you - call us.

Additional Reading:

• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse
• 1954 Filmed Stage Production of Peter Pan Starring Mary Martin
  

Extra Credit:

• Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
• Follow our Kevin at @kevin_kantor and buy Please Come Off Book out now via Button Poetry
• Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
• See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti
• Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song