Jade Sylvan Jade Sylvan Jade Sylvan (born September 9, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet, author, performer, producer, and performing artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are the author of "Kissing Oscar Wilde" and "The Spark Singer", a collection of poetry. They have been called a "risque queer icon" by the "Boston Globe". Their most recent book, "Kissing Oscar Wilde" (Write Bloody Publishing), a novelized memoir about the author's experience as a touring poet in Paris, was a finalist for the New England Book Award and the Bisexual Book Award. Sylvan has had pieces published in "The Washington Post", BuzzFeed, "The
Oscar Wilde's tomb wings, giving the feeling of forward flight; the conception was purely symbolical, the conception of a poet as a messenger, but many people tried to read into it a portrait of Oscar Wilde. In the original sketches, the influences have been linked to the winged Assyrian bulls in the British Museum. The small angel figure behind the ear of the Sphinx may have been a deliberate reference by Epstein to the verse in Wilde's poem "The Sphinx": "sing me all your memories". Upon the headress there are five figures, one with a crucifix, perhaps symbolising the martyrdom of Oscar Wilde;