The whole poem is great, but "drew breath like a blade from a sheath" and " I swear: // If idolatry was my only sin, then // it’s because god wasn’t watching." are, if you'll excuse the vernacular, bangers.
by @tagreathouse.bsky.social
PSA reading “Hey there neighbor! We all want to feel safe, but your Ring camera is sharing everything with ICE, including every person that walks by.” Cartoon smiley faces saying “Ack!”, “Oh no!”, “That’s terrible!” A cartoon shouting “What to do?!” Text: “Turn it off! Or, cover the camera and use audio only.” A drawing showing “You” cutting the stream of information from Ring to Amazon to ICE. Text: “We keep each other safe” surrounded by drawings of hearts.
Pretty proud of this dual review of poetry by torrin greathouse & Emilia Phillips
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/04/11/s...
Anyway, reading transfeminine poetry is hot 😳 I don't make the rules.
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
In celebration of Transgender Awareness Week, we are celebrating recent trans authors.
✨ DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire.
✨ Transtraterrestrial by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson documents Whitson's groundbreaking pieces.
#transgenderawarenessweek
This is such an immeasurable loss
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
I know that someone has made me one before, but it keeps being taken down without explanation. Doesn’t NOT smell like transmisogyny
I’m too famous to not have a @wikipedia.org page, somebody should fix that
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW College Literature Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 Special Issue: Trans Literatures Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
The "Trans LIteratures" issue of College Literature, features work from torrin a. greathouse, Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Hannah K. Grabowski, Sarah Snyder, Will Anderson, S. Brook Corfman, and more!
Read at @ProjectMUSE: tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
![“[T]o ask ‘Whose Trans Literatures?’...is to question
structures of belonging and exclusion, to ask who is
portrayed as proper subjects and who is relegated to
abjection or worse.”
Assigned Reading at Birth
Trans Literatures, Reproduction, and Redistribution
Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg
introduce a special issue of
College Literature
at the Hopkins Press Newsroom Blog
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“[T]o ask ‘Whose Trans Literatures?’...is to question structures of belonging and exclusion, to ask who is portrayed as proper subjects and who is relegated to abjection or worse.” Assigned Reading at Birth Trans Literatures, Reproduction, and Redistribution Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg introduce a special issue of College Literature at the Hopkins Press Newsroom Blog press.jhu.edu/newsroom
College Literature's new special issue, "Trans Literatures" is now available!
Guest editors Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg bring together some stellar scholars, including Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, and Trish Salah
Read their editor's blog now: tinyurl.com/eybr8cpt
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW College Literature Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 Special Issue: Trans Literatures Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
It's a great issue of College Literature, featuring scholarly articles, roundtable conversations and reviews from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, and more!
tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
Got to sit down with Alex, rl, & THE Trish Salah to talk about the history and development of trans poetics, which is one of the best conversations I’ve had in my career
2025 Stonewall Award Winners Some Strange Music Draws Me In, by Griffin Hansbury DEED, by torrin a. greathouse Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, by Annie Liontas Lunar Boy, by Jes and Cin Wibowo Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa
Today we recognize the 2025 Stonewall Award winners. The Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, is the first and most enduring award for LGBTQ+ books.
Nocturne a cleave tanka I miss the summer, bathroom tile— private winter. This stall, the whole sky— slick with drool & sweat. Panting against a zipper's small teeth. Air simmered to ash with heat. The moon is a glory hole. A brand-new mouth made in the night. Where breath hums soft & the wind moans back.
torrin a. greathouse #smallpoemsunday
Can’t be more annoying than the shit I keep playing on the jukebox
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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
Cover of DEED. beautiful edition with amazing 'fly pages' inside collage of textured black flowers.
An apostrophe denotes possession. Means to turn toward. Thin hook of ink that joins one body to another by its name.
In one pocket I carry a list of all the places I am prohibited -- bathrooms & airplanes, churches & young adult literature. In the other, a list of all the things I'd have to abandon to be called a woman. I fly 3,000 to a place where no one knows my face or name & joke that there is a boy I'm leaving behind
Day #3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social read the new torrin a. greathouse book DEED. Intensely propulsive inquiries into trans self/sex work, language, patriarchy, clients/police, sexuality & oppression; a writer w/chops & labyrinthine music - exquisite visions, sculpted lines & politics/poetic.
Jami Macarty reviews 'Deed' by torrin a. greathouse, poetry that crafts a new queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation while moving beyond trauma narratives.
#bookreviews #booknews #poetry #readingcommunity
@tagreathouse @weslpress
In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination by @tagreathouse.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/operati...
#poetry
To cap off Pride Month, we are taking a moment to celebrate recent LGBTQIA+ authors. You can check out their amazing books at weslpress.org or your favorite bookstore
DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost.
Don’t miss torrin a. greathouse and Miller Oberman’s conversation discussing their respective new poetry collections, DEED and IMPOSSIBLE THINGS—read it today in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social! #DisabilityPrideMonth hopkinsreview.com/features/new...
Several poems from The Georgia Review
@tagreathouse.bsky.social & Lynn Lonidier
#poetry
My scholarly article "Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page" in New Writing.
Analyzes poems by @thellpsx.bsky.social, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, @teagerbeza.bsky.social, @tateoquendo.bsky.social, and Kelly Weber.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
then perish
What a response poem! If you don’t know the poetry of torrin a. greathouse, chrck her/they out here: www.torringreathouse.com
Response poem here:
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