Overview
- A Penn State student on TikTok shared slides of a chapbook cover titled “Piss Poems,” which she attributed to Sufjan Stevens.
- In her account, a professor showed the booklet, said he went to school with Stevens, and described Stevens writing quick poems whenever he had to pee and photographing the spots.
- The professor’s identity and the chapbook’s origin have not been verified.
- Stevens studied creative writing at the New School in the late 1990s, which makes a student-era chapbook plausible.
- Separately, recent releases credit Stevens with playing on Mina Tindle’s “Ladies” and producing Meg Lui’s new cover of the Cranberries’ “Dreams.”