University of Chicago

University of Chicago

I’ll be at the University of Chicago for two events Tuesday Jan. 19 and Wednesday Jan. 20 2016: on Tuesday I’ll be reading poetry and talking about my (very nonscholarly) versions of Callimachus at 7pm, and on Wednesday I’ll be giving a critical talk in the History and Forms of Lyric series, at 4:30pm. The talk is called “How to Make an Anthology, or the Literary History of the Present.” If you live in Chicago perhaps I will see you...
All-Season Stephanie

All-Season Stephanie

My new chapbook All-Season Stephanie is now out and ready for you to order from the good folks at Rain Taxi, who published it! As the title implies, they are poems that show you (or show me) what my life could have been like if I had grown up as, and been seen as, a girl. Eowyn Evans did the art (Rain Taxi’s Kelly Everding deserves many thanks for the design). You can read a representative poem from the chapbook, “Esprit Stephanie,” at The...
“My 1985” in the New Yorker

“My 1985” in the New Yorker

I’ve got a poem called “My 1985” in the March 23, 2015 New Yorker. You can hear me read it aloud too. You can read about some of the things and characters named in that poem here, and here and here; you can also (though I’m not sure that I’d recommend it) hear the original artists’ version of a song that the poem...
Philly Trans Health Conference

Philly Trans Health Conference

Next weekend (June 13-14) I’ll be in Philadelphia for the annual Trans Health Conference, where I’ll be proud to do two different things on Saturday. I will be reading my own poetry (poems about gender; some brand-new ones, too) along with the novelist Rachel Gold, who will be reading from her cool trans-themed YA novels (either the one that’s out now or the one coming soon. Later that same day we will be talking about trans* and gender-variant characters– and whole invented societies– in science fiction and fantasy. (If you have suggestions about sf, it’s not too late to send them in; special gift coming your way if you can find the author recently known as Raphael Carter.) See a few of you...
Butterfly With Parachute at the Poetry Foundation

Butterfly With Parachute at the Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation shared Butterfly With Parachute, a poem from Belmont. Here’s the artwork that inspired the poem, from one of the groundbreaking artists who live with me.     Also at the Poetry Foundation: In Memory of the Rock Band Breaking Circus, Bad Newz, and The People on the Bus, plus a lot of...