Trans poetry Archives

April 6, 2021 10 min read

For this new year of 2021, I’m celebrating survival and also a great deal of mourning. The sweep of painstaking...

Cameron Awkward-Rich: On Engaging with Trans Literary Tropes and Writing for the Future

June 8, 2016 10 min read

"...I don’t think feeling fragmented is necessarily a thing to seek to eliminate! Feelings, even unpleasant ones, can be a source of knowledge and intelligence." Read More

‘Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul’ by Ryka Aoki

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry Reviews

January 21, 2016 4 min read

Following up her 2014 novel, He Mele A Hilo, Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul is Ryka Aoki’s...

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

Mitch Kellaway

Interviews

November 22, 2015 8 min read

"I feel there’s not a whole lot of support for trans writers--but it’s changing. And it’s changing not because [of the publishers], but because a lot more trans poets are pushing for this to happen..." Read More

‘Impersonation’ by Joy Ladin

Mitch Kellaway

Poetry Reviews

October 22, 2015 3 min read

The angst and transcendence of that unique point in a transitioning person’s life—the last days that they exist in their...

Eileen Myles Gets Her Due, the Film Adaptation of ‘Dancer From the Dance’, Trans Poetics, and More LGBT News

Parrish Turner

News

September 25, 2015 1 min read

Eileen Myles gets her due, Myles E. Johnson gives us a book for young black queer boys, and more LGBT news Read More

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry

August 18, 2015 3 min read

The book develops and deploys a sophisticated analysis of structural oppression, through the related categories of racism, exploitation, colonialism and transphobia, and of the ways this plays out as personal experience Read More

“A Self” by Joy Ladin

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

May 5, 2015 1 min read

This week, a poem by Joy Ladin. Read More

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

Mitch Kellaway

Poetry Reviews

July 29, 2014 4 min read

"Taken as a whole, the pulse behind Gephyromania is that of a seeker who finds meaning not in what is found, but in the act itself." Read More

‘Transmigration’ by Joy Ladin

G. Stein-Bodenheimer

Poetry Reviews

June 13, 2011 4 min read

The title of Joy Ladin’s 2009 Transmigration suggests the collection’s key themes: death, rebirth, the soul and its passing in...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Trans & Non-Binary BIPOC Poets Discuss Human Rights & Poetics of Justice with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Cameron Awkward-Rich: On Engaging with Trans Literary Tropes and Writing for the Future

‘Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul’ by Ryka Aoki

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

‘Impersonation’ by Joy Ladin

Eileen Myles Gets Her Due, the Film Adaptation of ‘Dancer From the Dance’, Trans Poetics, and More LGBT News

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

“A Self” by Joy Ladin

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

‘Transmigration’ by Joy Ladin

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta