Tag: writer

  • What Alok Teaches Us About Bodies and Love

    Alok, the transfeminine writer and performance artist, writes poetry that expands and materializes the abstract nature of the foundational queer and feminist theorist Judith Butler’s theory on gender as a collection of performances, enacting ideas like those found in feminist disability studies, with thinkers like Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Performance theory is commonly understood as an explanation…

  • Trans Body, Earth, & Universe: Candrilli’s WATER I WON’T TOUCH

    Amidst a poetry collection full of imagery relating to the earth and the body, the title poems in Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s book Water I Won’t Touch strike an interesting chord. We enter the book wondering what water they will touch, and why there are two categories. These questions are left open, but what grounds the…

  • Ars Poetica: On the Art of My Poetry

    Where does my poetry fit into the world? Where does my poetry fit into myself? My responses to these questions flow like the blood in my own veins. Inspired by the format of René Char’s essay “The Formal Share,” my own writing is broken up in sections using roman numerals. This essay will include my…

  • Yellow Flowers

    One of my friends gave me a notebook on New Year’s Eve in 2019. It’s a hardcover notebook with metal rings binding the pages together, which is my favorite kind, because when you open it to write, each page can truly lay flat for you. The notebook has yellow flowers on the cover and on…