Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

A Pride Episode: Trans Poetry


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The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


NOTES:

Read a bit more about Spencer Williams's Tranz, including from the poem "Laramie" in the book, here

Watch this reading celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility, featuring some  poets from our episode, including Amir Rabiyah and Stephanie Burt. Rabiyah's first    book, Prayers for My 17th Chromosome, is available through Sibling Rivalry Press.

Here is "Queer Facts About Vegetables" by Oliver Baez Bendorf. 

Read Jameson Fitzpatrick's poem "How to Feel Good" (and scroll for an essay by the poet).

Read Cameron Awkward-Rich "Lucille's Roaches" and visit the poet's website at https://www.cawkwardrich.com/

Read Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's sonnet from the episode.

Watch Espinoza read from her first book, I Don't Want to Be Understood, with guest D.A. Powell.

Read Taylor Johnson's "Trans is Against Nostalgia" and order Inheritance (Alice James).

Read Stephanie Burt's "Inside Out Stephanie" and check out the Breaking Form interview with Stephanie about the anthology she edited, Super Gay Poems.

Subhaga Crystal Bacon's "Crossings" appears in Transitory (Boa Books; purchase it here). Check out Bacon's website

Read torrin a. greathouse's "There’s No Trace of the Word “Transgender” in Adrienne Rich’s Biography"

Anthologies:

Troubling the Line

We Want it All

Subject to Change


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