The Camels Louisa had already run into the ocean.Rosie and I were walking down slowerwhen a woman pulls up in a truckwith two camels. Single-humped, almosttoo bright to look at, each tuft of fura magnesium flare that should hurt human eyes,but doesn’t. One camel rises on two legs,picks Rosie up and holds her. Rosie and the camellook at each other. “He never does this,”the woman … Continue reading Two Poems by Miller Oberman
from Ghost Snow 2 (Unwinding: 2010-2022) 5 In the world of form, we differentiate substances and images; in the world of sound, a horrific cacophony of serpents and sewage pours out of the emperor’s mouth, the stinking words sting and yes we distinguish music from noise we say but In the embrace of the dark, slime drenched, it seems good words and bad words are … Continue reading Tenney Nathanson
by K. Allison Hammer The 2020 Netflix documentary Disclosure gives an historical sweep of transphobia in Hollywood, briefly revisiting that nadir of ’90s transmisogyny— The Crying Game (1992). While I’m highly skeptical of Disclosure’s optimism about the transformative power of mainstream representation, celebrity culture, and Hollywood itself, I was grateful for its renewed attention to the Crying Game’s viral transmisogyny. Thanks to Disclosure, the scene … Continue reading Toward a Theory of Female Phallicism
Merrill’s Question Can you watch a sparrow fall? Egg or no egg fertilizedthe wolf spider wholly generates her self holierthan any sacrament advances the air invisibleleg over leg, gathers helixical space enough, life enougheven as descent now surely evident advanceswhen she knows to gather her coat about her necktry something unknown To Be a Man i If only you had been a man,I wonder … Continue reading Three Poems by Donna Fleischer
Review by Eero Talo Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideasby Samuel DelanyIndependently Published, 2020 The novel has two axes of development: lateral developments that allow us to tell the stories of a greater number of people, and vertical developments that deepen our understanding of lives already within the literary imagination. The vertical axis is closely related to poetry and marked by the apprehension of new … Continue reading A Lamp in Broad Daylight
“You blur, dematerialize as I approach. I stand behind you, close enough to sniff your perfume…” Continue reading Two Poems by Natasha Dennerstein
“It’s / safe and fun to watch / someone jerk off / more than six feet / away.” Continue reading Three Poems by Timothy Liu
“but so many places are gone now: / sunshine deli, gargoyle mechanique, / the gas station, the telephone bar, / kiev diner, st. mark’s books”
Continue reading Two Poems by Wanda Phipps
“There is a thing / Lingering that / I can’t put a finger on / But it has put a finger / On me maybe more / Than one for I feel / The heaviness of / the hand is heavy” Continue reading Lydia Cortés
“I am / neither the source of all your ills, / nor a metaphor for something / sans else. Not a path I chose nor a choice / I lacked” Continue reading Three Poems by M Robin Cook
“a rumor is going / around that I cannot / grow anything / outside of my hands” Continue reading Three Poems by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
“is it possible to lock a moon to a body / in an evergreen frame of fluctuating heartbreak” Continue reading Three Poems by Carol Mirakove
EOAGH Books, March 2021 Poetry / Transgender Studies / Holocaust Studies ISBN 978-1-7923-0722-5 $20 Available from Asterism (link coming soon). To order directly from EOAGH Books: The Book of Anna is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying … Continue reading The Book of Anna, by Joy Ladin
EOAGH will be sharing a booth at AWP this year in Portland, Oregon with Tinfish, Chax Press, Kelsey Street Press, Black Radish Books, and POG. We will have new books to show you. Look for us at the AWP book exhibit and at various conference events! Meanwhile, we are currently putting together the next issue of the journal and we look forward to sharing it … Continue reading EOAGH at AWP 2019
EOAGH Books, 2019 Poetry / Transgender Studies / Indigenous Studies ISBN 978-1-5323-5926-2 $20 Order from Asterism (link coming soon). To order from the Publisher directly: Payment Options Individual Purchase $20.00 USDBookstore Purchase $12.00 USD This long-awaited volume collects poetry from the 80’s and 90’s by Max Wolf Valerio, one of the first trans poets to publish a book of poems in the US. The punk … Continue reading The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces, by Max Wolf Valerio
EOAGH is pleased to announce the following nominees in poetry for the 2017 Pushcart Prize: “Right to Release” by Kay Ulanday Barrett “The Flag and the Shore” by Kerry Downey “This is Nothing Much to Hear” by Kenyatta JP Garcia “Attempting to Behead the Grounded” by Jimena Lucero “The Other” by Pazia Miller “500 Dead Crows” by Isabelle Shallcross Congratulations and best of luck to … Continue reading EOAGH Pushcart Nominations 2017
Now Accepting Submissions: Aug 28-Oct 15 The Fall 2017 Reading Period for Issue 11 of EOAGH is now open! During this time we’re considering submissions of: – Essays – Articles – Reviews – Interviews – Any Other Genre (except poetry) We’re especially looking for work by trans writers, queer writers, people of color, and intersectional feminist writers! You can send an abstract of 150 words … Continue reading Fall 2017 Reading Period Now Open
tomboy femme motorcycle lesbian in my office my bones tell me she’s a femme long haired gaunt and strong in a leather jacket boots and jeans nails slightly long when i say you can leave your jacket on the coat rack she smiles says but this is my purse. i laugh, my bones were right. forbidden fruit … Continue reading Three Poems by Vittoria repetto
from de/compositions (after Vahni Capildeo’s reading) Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections: countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013), and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including ‘de/compositions’ (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), ‘£/€xtinctions’ (sociopathetic distro, 2017), ‘[of sirens / body … Continue reading Nat Raha
from She Said Between Pronouns are both a problem And a solution for Ashbery why Hasn’t anyone written that article Yet why can I not lie down among The fact that On Tuesdays and Thursdays I might actually be an it Whereas on Sundays I am without Fail eating oranges in the kitchen Draped in lovely rumpled striped Linen my … Continue reading Kimberly Quiogue Andrews