ed Ochester, poet and professor of ...

ed Ochester, poet and professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, published "My Penis" in the Summer 1973 issue of Chicago Review (along with another piece of poetry "My Teeth"). OCHESTER explains:

"My Penis" was single in kind of a series of "body parts" metrical compositions I was writing in the 1970 piece of poetrys in which I tried to talk about serious controls in comic ways (then as now the same is likely to be misunderstood when undivided does this); in particular, "My Penis" was meant to be a contrast to and make notes on the work of certain macho author of poemss and was written ...