-
Forgetting What Is Remembered
I promised my next report from the Symposium on Trans & Genderqueer Poetry. But the Symposium has come and gone and I did not post. I took notes, lots of notes, but I didn’t post. So often, when something “special” happens these days, I resolve not to share it on the Internet at all. It’s […]
-
To Wait in Waiting
I question if such comfort of belonging actually exists and at what point the visibility of certain bodies obscures others. How much can we trust our perception and senses? - Bo Luengsuraswat (from a poetics statement in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics) I set out on Wednesday evening from Houston on […]
-
Who’s In Here?
Years ago, when I started getting occasional acceptance letters along with the mountain of rejection letters from journals, I was thrilled. That I’d have readers. That I’d find people with whom to talk about my work. Or that somehow a network or community could be formed this way. But it became clear to me quickly […]
-
Long Live May
Hello {Outward from Nothingness} readers, It’s May 1 and so happy May Day. Let the May blogging begin. (Except also this month, there will be some overflow from April as Saehee Cho posts some additional work related to her theme of translation. Saehee set the bar high with her work last month. There’s no way […]