...” takes on a new meaning in Clare's poetry. Bending trees: this is the segue for me, the lean into the process, transforming pressure, opening up to new visions of the natural as a site of rite and trans. I am leaning and listening with Clare's and Noodin's poems in the swing, with the sounds of my...

...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...

...J de Leon Abstract Recent works by trans and nonbinary poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jos Charles, jayy dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Paige Lewis, and Danez Smith, gesture to a new mode of trans-confessional poetry. Trans poets practice naming as a form of self-indulgence, and trans names...

...micha cárdenas Abstract The author's hybrid poetry/bioart project, Pregnancy , presents a vision of trans Latina reproductive futures, based on her experiences of cryogenic tissue banking, aka sperm banking, after having been on hormones for many years. At the 2014 Civil Liberties and Public Policy...

... for.” The author's interpretation of Lyric Sexology through the history it proposes thus helps her to develop a paradigm for understanding the functions of untranslatability and figuration in determining the past and present configurations of trans social relations. poetry untranslatability translation lyric...

...Joy Ladin The Spectral Wilderness . Bendorf Oliver . Kent, OH : Kent State University Press , 2015 . 88 pp. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 As the groundbreaking Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics showed, the United States...

.... As a trans poet who has been writing and publishing for nearly two decades, it's exciting to witness transgender and genderqueer poets get their work published and gain recognition. In the seven years since Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics , edited by TC Tolbert and Trace...

... issue of Poetry Magazine , after a report highlighted the lack of gender-nonconforming poets published in the magazine. The special issue was explicitly advertised as a means to foster trans inclusivity, framed as meeting “the need for an intentional community space,” and planned for a release just...

... www.tctolbert.com/index.html for more information. This text is useful for readers interested in how trans-ness moves through poetry. As TT Jax states, “Poetry is an act of the body, an internal, intestinal movement. Poetry moves like an interstitial cellular revolt, rattling up words and rhythms from...

... . 2013 . “ This leftover disruption thing .” In Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics , edited by Tolbert T. C. and Peterson Tim Trace , 321 – 25 . Callicoon, NY : Nightboat Books . Eliot T. S. (1943) 1971 . Four Quartets . New York : Harvest...

... (Spillers 2003 ; Moten and Harney 2013 ; Bradley and Marassa 2014 ; Barad 2015 ; Bey 2017 ; Ellison 2017 ; Gossett 2017 ; Tsang and Moten 2017 ; Jackson 2018 ). The concomitance of trans* and black studies transforms the dictum “The social revolution cannot draw its poetry from the past...

... , Barale Michele Aina , and Halprin David M. , 307 – 20 . New York : Routledge . edwards keri . 2013 . “ A Narrative of Resistance .” In Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics , ed. Tolbert T. C. and Peterson Time Race , 317 – 25 . Callicoon, NY...

.../appropriate (more derivations of “to own”) “place” of poetry. I wonder, further, if we might (following Stryker) think of “trans” itself as a capacity to see oneself, or feel oneself, where one seems (to others) not to be. Might thoughtful dis-placing be the spatial-affective mode of trans? 4...

... in both the utility of a nonpathologizing psychoanalysis for trans people and in the capacity of trans people's literary writing to offer alternative imaginaries, knowledges, and analytics through which to reread and revise psychoanalytic conceptions of identity (sexed, raced, gendered) in relation...

...Iwo Nord Abstract This article reviews Gin Müller's play Trans Gender Moves , arguing that it has translation, on several levels and in its broadest sense, at the core of its themes and aesthetics. Based on the performers’ real-life stories, Trans Gender Moves is about what it might mean to live...

... the term poetics to refer not only to the theory of poetry but also to the ways in which the different aspects of any text converge to create effects on the reader. By extension, poetics can refer to the making of meaning through the manipulation of form and as such resonates powerfully with trans...

... transgress gender norms and/or as a method of fighting misogyny, including transmisogyny? Put another way, how might one use the forms, tools, and analytical methodologies of remix to produce “poetry from the future” that looks after trans loved ones and comrades in the present? There are likely many ways...

...? If there is an overarching theme in the work collected herein, it is that of the relationship between trans- and poiesis : etymologically, simply “making”; literally, the root of poetry, which is a making of meaning that exceeds the functional communicative use of language; materially and metaphorically, a plosive breath...

...LaVelle Ridley Abstract In this article the author focuses on Mya Taylor's singing performance as Alexandra in the 2015 comedy-drama film Tangerine as a performative index of black trans women's futures. Contextualizing her performance within the larger, dangerous world for most black trans sex...

...Eva S. Hayward Abstract This note represents an effort to think together Afro-pessimism and trans studies. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transsexual cut Afropessimism ontology psychoanalysis “Don't exist” is an imperative, a sanctioned foreclosure. “Don't exist...