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Troubling The Line
''Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics'' a collection of poetry by transgender and genderqueer writers, edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson. The collection itself contains some of the works by 55 different poets along with a "poetics statement", a reflection by each poet that provides context for their work. The book was published in 2013 by Nightboat Books. The collection was reviewed by Stephanie Burt on Poetry Foundation's website. It has been called "the first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer poets." An earlier anthology, “Of Souls and Roles, Of Sex and Gender," was compiled by trans activist Rupert Raj between 1982 and 1991, but remains available only in manuscript form at The ArQuives: Canada's LGBQT2+ Archives and at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria. Awards The collection was a finalist for the Lambda Award in LGBT Anthology (2014). Contributing Poets * Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, * Amir Rabiyah * Ari Bani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightboat Books
Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books. History The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali and Jennifer Chapis. In 2007, Stephen Motika became publisher. Nightboat Books publishes manuscripts accepted through general submission and annually awards a $1,000 prize and publication for a book of poems. Nightboat Books are distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. The press has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, and the Topanga Fund. Notable authors published by Nightboat Books include Dawn Lundy Martin, Nathanaël, Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen, Melissa Buzzeo, Daniel Borzutzky, Bhanu Kapil, Jill Magi, Wayne Koestenbaum, Etel Adnan, and Fanny Howe. Brian Blanchfield's book ''A Several World,'' published by Nightbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin (born March 24, 1961) is an American poet and the former David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. She was the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. Early life, education, and identity Ladin was born in Rochester, NY to Lola and Irving Ladin. Irving Ladin's family were labor organizers with connections to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Her parents, both coming from non-observant Jewish households, remained non-observant through Ladin's childhood. However, Ladin's mother encouraged Ladin to attend synagogue and Hebrew school to build a Jewish identity. Ladin has attributed her lack of a strong Jewish education to her connection to the religion and theology. Ladin has described intuiting her girlhood at a young age, viewing her assigned male identity as "false" as a child. At age eight, she began calling herself a "pacifist" in order to avoid combative play and athletics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT Poetry
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism ', which began to replace the term ''gay'' (or ''gay and lesbian'') in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, ', adds the letter ''Q'' for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity. The initialisms ''LGBT'' or ''GLBT'' are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. History of the term The first widely used term, ''homosexual'', no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s LGBT Literature
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit (measurement), unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest Positive number, positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the sequence (mathematics), infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender Literature
Transgender literature is a collective term used to designate the literary production that addresses, has been written by or portrays people of diverse gender identity. History Representations in literature of transgender people have existed for millennia, with the earliest instance probably being the book ''Metamorphoses'', by the Roman poet Ovid. In the twentieth century its notable the novel ''Orlando'' (1928), by Virginia Woolf, considered one of the first transgender novels in English and whose plot follows a bisexual poet that changes gender from male to female and lives for hundreds of years. For decades, publications that covered transgender topics were mainly centered on memoirs, with a lengthy tradition that had its earliest example in ''Man into Woman'' (1933), by Lili Elbe, and that has lasted until the present times with autobiographical books like '' The Secrets of My Life'' (2017), by Caitlyn Jenner. Other memoirs written by trans people that have amassed critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Anthologies
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication. Alternatively, it can also be a collection of selected writings (short stories, poems etc.) by one author. Complete collections of works are often called "complete works" or "" (Latin equivalent). Etymology The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία (''anthologic'', literally "a collection of blossoms", from , ''ánthos'', flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the ''Garland'' (, ''stéphanos''), the introduction to which compares each of its an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Tuck
Zoe Tuck is an American author and poet. She was born in Texas, moved to the Bay Area in 2008, and is now living in Massachusetts. Career Works Tuck has been featured on poets.org, Michigan Quarterly Review, and was published in the book ''Troubling the Line'' (2013), a collection of poetry published by Nightboat Books. In 2013, she performed her piece from ''Troubling the Line'' for RE@DS, a segment University of California, Berkeley's Art Museum, BAMPFA, L@TE series. She has also authored ''Terror Matrix'' (2014), and has an unpublished manuscript titled ''Summer Arcana'' (2014). She worked at Small Press Distribution for several years after moving into the Bay Area. She also co-curated Condensery Reading Series. She is currently working on co-curating for But Also house reading series. Tuck is also a co-editor of "HOLD: a journal", along with Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck and Cheena Marie Lo. Tuck is also an editor for the publishing group Timeless, Infinite Light. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Salah
Trish Salah is an Arab Canadian poet, activist, and academic. She is the author of the poetry collections, ''Wanting in Arabic'', published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and ''Lyric Sexology Vol. 1'', published by Roof Books in 2014. An expanded Canadian edition of ''Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1'' was published by Metonymy Press in 2017. Biography Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and her Ph.D. in English Literature at York University in Toronto, Ontario. While a teaching assistant at York, Salah was politically active in the Canadian Union of Public Employees as the first transgender representative to their National Pink Triangle Committee. She is currently associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, and prior to her appointment at Queen's, was faculty in Women's and Gender Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Waite
Stacey Waite is a poet—focusing on both slam and written verse—who also works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body—of the intersections of gender, sexuality, place and relationships. She has published four collections of poetry over the past several years. Career Waite attended her first live slam poetry performance in New York City as a teen. Since moving to Nebraska, Waite has worked as a teaching artist with the Nebraska Writers Collective and its slam-poetry program Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB). LTAB allows high school students from around the state of the Nebraska to write, practice, perform and compete in slam poetry bouts around the state. Waite has also published a significant book, Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, in the field of Composition Studies about pedagogy and the teaching of writing with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017, a project t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micha Cárdenas
Micha Cárdenas, stylized as micha cárdenas, is an American visual and performance artist who is an assistant professor of art and design, specializing in game studies and playable media, at the University of California Santa Cruz. Cárdenas is an artist and theorist who works with the algorithms and poetics of trans people of color in digital media. Artwork and performances Cárdenas has presented her work around the world, including keynote performances at the 2015 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 2014 Digital Gender workshop at Umeå University in Sweden, 2013 Dark Side of the Digital Conference and 2012 Allied Media Conference, performances at the 2012 Zero1 Biennial in San Jose, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro in Bogotá, Colombia and collective exhibitions at the 2010 California Biennial, and the 2009 Mérida Biennial. In 2008, cardenas performed ''Becoming Dragon'', a 365 hour mixed reality performance in Second Life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Wolf Valerio
Max Wolf Valerio (born February 16, 1957, in Heidelberg, West Germany) is an American poet, memoir writer, essayist and actor. He has lived for many years in San Francisco, California. Valerio described his transition and experiences as a trans man in the 2006 memoir ''The Testosterone Files''. He also writes and performs poetry, and has acted in films and appeared in many documentaries. Early life Valerio identifies his mother as being of Blackfoot descent, specifically from the Kainai in Alberta, Canada. Valerio's father is Spanish. Valerio has researched his heritage and inferred that his paternal ancestors were crypto-Jews who had become conversos but secretly handed on Sephardic Jewish traditions. Valerio's father was in the United States Army for 20 years, which caused them to move frequently in the United States and Europe. Max was born in a US Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Valerio lived in many US states including Maryland, Washington, California, Kansas, Oklahom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Yan
Kit Yan is a queer, transgender, and Chinese-American award-winning poet. He also writes plays and screenplays. Yan lives in New York. Early life Yan was born in Enping, China. As an infant, he moved to Hawaii and lived on Oahu until he was 18. He moved to Massachusetts to attend Babson College, graduating in 2006. Career Theater Yan is a 2019 Vivace Award winner; Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow; 2019 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Writer in residence; a 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellow; 2019-2020 Musical Theater Factory Makers Fellow; a 2019-2020 The Playwrights' Center Many Voices Fellow; and a 2019 National Alliance for Musical Theater (NAMT) selection for ''Interstate''. Yan has worked with collaborator Melissa Li on a production of ''Interstate'' at Mixed Blood Theatre Company in March 2020, a first draft commission of ''Miss Step'' from 5th Avenue Theatre, and a commission from Keen Company for a ''Keen Teens'' one act musical. In 2017, Yan, MJ Kaufman, and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
