...Trace Peterson Abstract This essay argues for a possible trans poetics or trans poetry aesthetic in the United States by examining poems by three of the earliest visible trans poets to publish books in this country: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards. Close readings of their poems...

... Peterson ( 2014 ) has shown, feminist poetry had a formative influence on founding trans poets Samuel Ace and Max Valerio. 5. Unlike most trans people, the speaker has a similarly fraught relationship with the soul, suggesting that Dickinson may have beaten everyone to posthumanity. References...

... poetic aesthetic through an exploration of the work of three early practitioners: Samuel Ace, Max Wolfe Valerio, and kari edwards. She suggests that contending with trans erasure requires a con/textual historiography highlighting aesthetic and affective solutions to writing without tradition or social...

... exception in scholarship is Sonny Nordmarken and Samuel Ace's poem/essay, which frames their desire for each other as the “Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings” ( 2018 : 157). Otherwise, t4t masc4masc cultural texts appear in personal essays, poems, or pornography, to which we will return. From our...

... by this grant, as well as by generous grants from the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies. 3. The members of the host committee for the Tucson workshop were Samuel Ace, Francisco Galarte, Eva Hayward, Max Strassfeld, TC Tolbert, Susan Stryker...