"Waves Breaking" came from my desire to talk with my peers about their poetry. I didn't grow up knowing about other trans and gq poets, or what this poetry could sound/like like. I want to know the environment I'm in.
You can find out more about me, Avren Keating, at my personal blog: avrenkeating.wordpress.com
This month I had the opportunity to interview H. Melt about
the anthology they've just edited: Subject to Change: Trans
Poetry & Conversation.
H. Melt is a poet, activist, and educator whose work proudly
celebrates Chicago’s queer and trans communities. Their writing has
appeared many places including In These
Times, The Offing, and Them, the
first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the
author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor
of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation.
Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for
Emerging LGBTQ Writers and they've been named to Newcity's Lit 50
list, as well as Windy City Times' 30 under 30. H. Melt co-leads
Queeriosity at Young Chicago Authors and works at Women & Children
First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore.
Writers, books and artists mentioned in this
episode:
A podcast in which Avren Keating interviews other transgender, genderqueer, and/or gender variant poets about their life and work in order to figure out their place in the world.