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Now Available - Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

Now Available:

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson

Nightboat Books, 2013
Poetry, LGBT Studies  | $27.95
paperback, 544 pages, 7 x 10 in
ISBN: 978-1-937658-10-6

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The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, 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.

“Just as poetry bends language away from the utilitarian task of communication, towards unanticipated expressive potentials, so too do trans and genderqueer ways of being have the capacity to exceed and transform what society would have our bodies mean and do. The poets collected in this anthology live their art as well as write it. Let them change you. Don't miss a word.” – Susan Stryker

“Troubling the Line deftly oscillates between poems and poetics statements, detonating sense and sense making through powerfully embodied zones of sexual desire and social play. Herein are rich meditations of self-fashioning for a future that trips the hard wiring of our nervousness into fearless acts of being. In this stunning and timely anthology are complex mirrors and long shadows where the trans and genderqueer self evolves, re-shot into poem as photograph, as exercise, as memory, art made from enduring phenomenon into lasting primer.” – Ronaldo Wilson

Poets Include:

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Aimee Herman, Amir Rabiyah, Ari Banias, Ariel Goldberg, Bo Luengsuraswat, CAConrad, Ching-In Chen, Cole Krawitz, D’Lo, David Wolach, Dawn Lundy Martin, Drew Krewer, Duriel E. Harris, EC Crandall, Eileen Myles, Eli Clare, Ely Shipley, Emerson Whitney, Eric Karin, Fabian Romero, Gr Keer, HR Hegnauer, J. Rice, j/j hastain, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jake Pam Dick, Jen (Jay) Besemer, Jenny Johnson, John Wieners, Joy Ladin, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, kari edwards, Kit Yan, Laura Neuman, Lilith Latini, Lizz Bronson, Lori Selke, Max Wolf Valerio, Meg Day, Micha Cárdenas, Monica / Nico Peck, Natro, Oliver Bendorf, Reba Overkill, Samuel Ace, Stacey Waite, Stephen Burt, TC Tolbert, Tim Trace Peterson, Trish Salah, TT Jax, Y. Madrone, Yosmay del Mazo & Zoe Tuck

SPT 12/02/12: Tim Trace Peterson, j/j hastain, and Monica/Nico Peck

December 2, 2012 at 5pm
at Artist Television Access

a reading and conversation with
Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain and Monica Peck

for more information, visit Small Press Traffic at
http://smallpresstraffic.org/1847

Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and Violet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry), and is Editor / Publisher of EOAGH (http://eoagh.com). Peterson is also co-editor with TC Tolbert of the forthcoming anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books / EOAGH) and co-editor with Gregory Laynor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings (Chax Press). From 2009-2012, Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer writing and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.

j/j hastain is currently in the process of curating an Anthology of Queer Nudes (Knives Spoons and Forks Press) and has helped curate (and participated in) two major Trans anthologies. j/j is an Elective Affinities participant, a member of Dusie kollektiv  and is a regular contributor to Sous Les Paves. j/j currently writes creative reviews for Big Other, Lit Pub, PANK, Horseless Press and Emprise Review. j/j’s books have been finalists in the Kelsey Street, Grey Book Press, Grace Notes Books, Switchback, Omnidawn, The Collagist, DIAGRAM and Ahsahta book and essay competitions. j/j’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Publishers Triangle. j/j’s manuscript extant shamanisms won the Pavement Saw poetry award. j/j’s manuscript dear secondary umbilical, won second place in the Mad Hatter’s Wild and Wyrd Poetry Contest. In 2011 j/j’s book we in my Trans was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award and j/j’s book prurient anarchic omnibus was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. j/j has been a guest lecturer at Naropa University and University of Colorado. j/j is an artist and activist of the audible.

Monica / Nico Peck’s chapbook The Pyrrhaiad, a “Queer Iliad” set in San Francisco, was published this year by Trafficker Press. Peck’s blog queercity.org explores abject lost/found queer archives. Peck lives in San Francisco & teaches at San Jose State. More: mjpeck.wordpress.com