Three Poems by M Robin Cook
“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
Tag: trans and genderqueer poetry
The Book of Anna, by Joy Ladin
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
Nat Raha
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
Grey Vild
from Dear Gone It’s almost like we still lie to each other but it’s just me now. In your inventories, several light bulb jokes I wrote myself. In your inventories, it is too dark to read. In your inventories, I was 9 granite columns, pulled up the Nile by slaves. I held fast, a sky overcast with crackling leather, polished in the reduction … Continue reading Grey Vild
Three Poems by Gr Keer
magnificent, the way one year folds into another the way skin stretches into infinity the way a few bones and some breath fill up this space inside follicles are follies sprouting trees and your breath is a gale oh laughter i haven’t seen my thighs in over a week just because i haven’t looked doesn’t mean they aren’t there and what exactly … Continue reading Three Poems by Gr Keer
Two Poems by Alyssa Harley
The Ghost in My Building I have a ghost in my building, the ghost of a man who lived across the hall from me just before I moved in. He emigrated from Pakistan and went first to Texas where he worked at an all-night gas station. The business was regularly held up, as much as every other day, so the owner of the … Continue reading Two Poems by Alyssa Harley
Two Poems by Colette Arrand
On Watching Tiny House Hunters in a Waiting Room The boyfriend wants to live in the kind of house seen in viral Facebook posts: small beaux arts, miniscule arts and crafts; intricate monuments to the necessary minimization our kind. The girlfriend struggles with the size of the kitchen. Here, he says, anything can be our kitchen. He’s saved a little money and wants … Continue reading Two Poems by Colette Arrand
Three Poems by Rose Sanchez
Confessions While others slept, I slipped into your clothes, dressing up, pretending to be you as little sisters often do. I remember, you would paint my nails, We would play with barbies and teacups, You liked to dress me up, always wanting a little sister. Then I learned to lie at an early age. Tell you “no”, that I don’t want … Continue reading Three Poems by Rose Sanchez
Three Poems by Eero Talo
opentriangle leader called in keeper play diseasey with this desert gill gulp latch peak din unreason bent up read this star and fence been foreign mention to sea that it cornbread and it safety or it horned and oracled a trace plead not blue steps few grease come hundreds if a story mark it loose pink they spree boring blend a noose wink … Continue reading Three Poems by Eero Talo
Two Poems by Audrey Zee Whitesides
Play Mimics Life Manifesto Play on the wood with superiority physical faith after fashion Play on the air without risk Play mimics life, and all play that is mimics life between mailboxes really differences Faith serials haze into haze while our loving room resembles a zoo Play mimics life I swear more than clothes A novelty song after myth think aspiration, time for pleasure Play on … Continue reading Two Poems by Audrey Zee Whitesides
Kenyatta JP Garcia
Kenyatta JP Garcia is the author of This Sentimental Education, ROBOT and Playing Dead. They are also an editor at Horse Less Review where their work was also featured. But, if life was a bit different, they’d be the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil mutants. Instead they have a degree in linguistics and write poetry while doing their best to pretend that Upstate NY … Continue reading Kenyatta JP Garcia
Two Poems by Luis Lopez-Maldonado
Luis On Being Accepted SouthBend, Don’t Love You, Indiana After Joel Salcido’s Phoenix don’t love you Luis Lopez-Maldonado is a Xicano poet born and raised in Orange County, CA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside, majoring in Creative Writing and Dance. His poetry has been seen in The American Poetry … Continue reading Two Poems by Luis Lopez-Maldonado
Two Poems by C. Russell Price
Self Portrait as Rapunzel’s Hair First, I was comb controlled, a straight-teeth, barely-banged mini pig-tailed temple. Today, I enter a hay thrasher for a braid machine. I cover myself in an acre of blue bows. I keratin, I frizz, I fuck him. Naked, he lays his breastplate aside and swims within me like fine spaghetti. I stink like his pits. He greases me … Continue reading Two Poems by C. Russell Price
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Right to release For the longest time, I dreaded bathrooms, the bleach singing nostrils, I pictured my brown mama in every white person’s house, scrubbing tile making what other people took for granted, shine. In airports, I clench my bladder. in public anywhere, I hold it until a 3rd floor walk up can turn bloody. There’s a story every trans person … Continue reading Kay Ulanday Barrett
A Play by Jai Arun Ravine
THE ROMANCE OF THE SIAMESE DREAM Overture In a world between reality and imagination, a woman creates a fiction to cover up her past and a man creates a character that will forever change his future. Will they become who they are meant to be? Only the romance of the dream will tell. Act One YUL BRYNNER … Continue reading A Play by Jai Arun Ravine
Three Poems by H. Melt
SEARCHING FOR A FLAG Gay Mart is out of trans flags on back order since pride parade I ask the owner can you order more? his white hair replies call me in a month if you haven’t changed your mind by then THE PLURAL, THE BLURRING After Langston Hughes’ “Theme for English B” I am twenty … Continue reading Three Poems by H. Melt
Four Poems by Jos Charles
TRIGGER WARNING when i was 3, i could sing the batman theme. the family was impressed. uncle would request batman tapes from that guy mom knew across the way from grandfather’s place. i was told i had ‘speech issues.’ i would often misuse ‘a’s. warm became worm. harm became home. i’ve mostly figured words out, except with … Continue reading Four Poems by Jos Charles
Three Poems by Laura Neuman
storm clouds will poison you Dear Infant/Hydrangea, Chains of those flowers will forever connect whatever you’re reading with what I’m reading, what you taste with this next thought. That’s a culture, conjoined. The animals don’t like this. They tear at my shirt, slobber and tell me material is caring more about what’s present than what’s not. This isn’t always possible, but we can … Continue reading Three Poems by Laura Neuman
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson Now Available: Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson Nightboat Books, 2013 Poetry, LGBT Studies | $27.95 paperback, 544 pages, 7 x 10 in Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 978-1-937658-10-6 Order via University Press of New England (Nightboat’s distributor) … Continue reading Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
Three Poems by Joy Ladin
Lost and Found You find yourself quite comfortable in the bony clothes of death, though you seem to have lost the feeling of, well, feeling. Light moves through you easily and eerily, as though life were a window that was broken when you found it so you can admire without shame its fracture-stars that never set, though you find you get a little lost when … Continue reading Three Poems by Joy Ladin