Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #68:
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
Featuring:
Oliver Bendorf
Ching-In Chen
Meg Day
TT Jax
Stacey Waite
& guest curated by Jen (Jay) Besemer
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
About the new anthology published by Nightboat Books:
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.
OLIVER BENDORF's book, The Spectral Wilderness, was chosen by Mark Doty for the 2013 Wick Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Kent State University Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he recently earned his MFA and now teaches creativity, comics, and composition.
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
Featuring:
Oliver Bendorf
Ching-In Chen
Meg Day
TT Jax
Stacey Waite
& guest curated by Jen (Jay) Besemer
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
About the new anthology published by Nightboat Books:
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.
OLIVER BENDORF's book, The Spectral Wilderness, was chosen by Mark Doty for the 2013 Wick Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Kent State University Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he recently earned his MFA and now teaches creativity, comics, and composition.
JEN JAY BESEMER is the
author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Telephone, Object
with Man’s Face, Quiet Vertical Movements, Ten Word Problems,
and What Is Born. A new chapbook, Aster to Daylily, is
forthcoming in 2014 from Damask Press. Jay’s recombinant poetry projects are
also found in Monsters & Dust, Aufgabe, Drunken Boat, BlazeVOX,
e-ratio, Sentence and other delicious publications. Jay also writes
feature essays and reviews, and teaches art and poetry workshops in and beyond
Chicago. To find out more, visit www.jenbesemer.com.
CHING-IN CHEN is author
of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and
co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate
Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press). They are a
Kundiman, Lambda and Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow and a member of the Voices of
Our Nations Arts Foundation and Macondo writing communities. A community
organizer, they have worked in the Asian American communities of San
Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. In Milwaukee, they are cream
city review's editor-in-chief. See www.chinginchen.com.
MEG DAY, recently
selected for Best New Poets of 2013, is a 2013 recipient of an NEA
Fellowship in Poetry and the author of When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner
of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can’t Read This (winner
of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award
Winner, Meg has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary
Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, and the International Queer Arts
Festival. Meg is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at
the University of Utah.
TT JAX is a parent,
poet, mixed media artist, and writer living in the Pacific Northwest by way of
28 years in the Deep South.
STACEY WAITE is
Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and has
published four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank
O'Hara Prize), Love Poem to Androgyny, the lake has no saint (winner
of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press), and Butch Geography (also
from Tupelo Press in 2013). Waite is the co-host of Prairie Schooner's
podcast "Air Schooner" and has individual poems
appearing most recently in Bloom, The Indiana Review, and Heart
Quarterly. One of Waite's poems from Troubling the Line was
selected by Denise Duhamel and David Lehman for Best American Poetry 2013.
