... restaging. Gender, like self-indulgence, is never accomplished alone. It relies on an audience that either affirms and repeats—or refuses—one's request to be seen and understood in a way that breaks from expectation. I closely read two poems, by Oliver Baez Bendorf and Richard Siken, whose shared centering...

...Liz Rose Abstract In their poem “I, Monster Mine” (“Yo monstruo mío”) Argentine activist and self-proclaimed trans* sudaca artist Susy Shock demands the right to be “whatever my pinche desire fucking feels like.” By centering desire, Shock's poem echoes contemporary feminist theorizing in Argentina...

....” The author deploys Salah's collection of poems, which explores a number of historical discourses and sciences oriented around understanding transsexuality, to help think through some of the questions that the paradigm of untranslatability opens. This article argues that Lyric Sexology stages an analogy...

...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...

...-translation. The article concludes with the translatxrsation of Lemebel's performance poem “Manifiesto,” to reveal the embodiment of the translatxrsation. Most important, at the (written) text's end, a note appears indicating that the poem was first performed as an intervention to denounce the Chilean...

... for Transition . It considers the embodied politics that emerge through the manifestos, writing, illustrations, and poems included within these zines, and the forms of bodily being they elaborate. In the context of the second half of a decade defined by fiscal austerity in Europe and the ongoing underresourcing...

... of poets and their poetic statements to provide a sense of the type of work in the anthology—a review method that inevitably excludes more than it includes. The poems in the collection are as diverse as the poets' stories, experiences, and identities. For example, some of the work has obvious cadence...

... anthology is creating a sense of unity when there are so many disparate voices included. There are many styles of poetry in this anthology: narrative, formal, experimental, and ekphrastic—there are also letters, diary entries, blog posts, a speech, and prose poems. At times the collection feels disjointed...

... . 2013 . “ A Radiant Approaching .” Videopoem. Posted by “OlimpiasCulture,” December 21 . www.youtube.com/watch?v = WihPJuFaBNg . Kelly Robert . 1994 . Mont Blanc . Ann Arbor, MI : OtherWind . Leto Denise . 2013 . Your Body Is Not a Shark. Poems . In collaboration with Cid...

... that it is of and with sound—of listening, pleading, commanding, asking questions, answering other questions, voice, humility. The radio is often an object of eros in these poems, and what is striking is the way it becomes a technology not of, but with, the body, in a cybernetic loop, human and machine. Take a look here...

...Emma B. Mincks Through reclaiming their own worth as a two-spirit Oji-Cree member of the Sapotaweyak and Skownan Cree Nations, simpson transforms from broken glass to soft-edged sea glass in the opening poem “sea glass.” No words are wasted in telling this story. As an academic writer who gets...

.... References Auden W. H. 1979 . Selected Poems . New ed. Edited by Mendelson Edward . New York : Vintage . Dickinson Emily . 1998 . “ I am afraid to own a Body .” In The Poems of Emily Dickinson , edited by Franklin Ralph , 925 . Cambridge, MA : Belknap . Ladin Joy...

... David . 1975 . “ Shameless .” Vector 37 ( October ): 37 – 40 . Harmodius in Exile . 1973 . “ Untitled (We Are the Brothers of the Templar) .” In “Poems of Harmodius in Exile” (unpublished notebook). David Greene Coll2014-007. Harmodius in Exile . 1974 . The Poems of Harmodius in Exile...

... are, topologically, linear. So too in Acker's novels: the problem that Acker has with the narrative course of literary realism isn't sequentiality. In Blood and Guts in High School ( 1984 ), Janey's “breakup” with her father leads to her schooling in New York, her translations of the Persian poems, and her travels...

... never have, though now, mostly, in my own way, I do. And to avoid death at the hands of others, the constant promise of necropolitics that I face everyday, knowing that as a trans woman of color, I'm not likely to survive until my next dream is realized, my next poem is written, my next...

... here. The landscape architects, James Corner Field Operations, are the focus of another article in progress. 6. For more on the history of queer public sex, see Bérubé 2003 ; Delany 1999 ; and Rubin 2012 . 5. While I am loath to pre-interpret the poem, it is appropriate to clarify some...

... with the added context of the composer's statements about their own music, the author paints a more complete picture of the work, one that reinvests music analysis with the trans voice behind the composition. The word between appears once at the beginning of every line in the text of the poem (also by Grant...

... framing of transsexuality. I say “classical sources aside,” but in fact that is where I begin, with Tiresias as a figure of myth, drama, and poetry. For example, “Hysteria of Origins” is a suite of poems that doubles the inversion of psychoanalytic preoccupations with etiology with a hysterical enactment...

... Oliver Baez . 2020 . “ t4t .” Poetry , January . www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151771/t4t . Berlant Lauren , and Warner Michael . 1994 . “ Sex in Public .” Critical Inquiry 24 , no. 2 : 547 – 57 . binaohan b . 2014 . decolonizing trans/gender 101...

.../him into. Murray spent a great deal of time and energy observing the operations of racialization and gendering at work as those surrounding her/him tried to categorize her/him for their own purposes. In her/his 1938 poem “Mulatto's Dilemma,” Murray writes: Oh God! My face has slipped them...