Thank you to Media Diversified for letting me share some of my poetry on this Trans Day of Visibility. “Media Diversified is a young and growing non-profit organisation which seeks to cultivate and promote skilled writers of colour by providing advice and contacts and by promoting content online through its own platform. Live since July […]
I found out recently that Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul has been recognized as a Lambda Finalist this year in the all-new category of Transgender Poetry. That is an amazing honor! Thank you, Lambda Literary. I will be reading at the Lambda Finalist reading on May 24 at the West Hollywood City Hall. Los […]
I am so grateful people are reading this book! Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul was released kind of quietly, but I really worked on this book–and am really happy with the results. It is not an easy book–it was written from a different, darker place than He Mele A Hilo, and even Seasonal Velocities–and it took […]
I wrote a review of Ryka Aoki‘s book of poems! TL:DR It is very, very good and you should read it. The book, not the review. Although the review is pretty fabulous too :)–Cat Fitzpatrick “It is through this complex grasping, not only of the minutiae of living, but of the minutiae of speaking, that these […]
A day or two ago, Cat Fitzpatrick wrote this great article for the Guardian about trans people and their poetry. My work is mentioned there, as well as three presses I’ve worked with: Topside, Trans-Genre, and Biyuti. I want to talk a bit about Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. It is my first book entirely dedicated toward […]
Why Dust Shall Settle Upon This Soul has had a very quiet opening–I suppose that part of it has to do with the fact that I’ve been working on my taxes and the forthcoming tour for He Mele A Hilo. Some of it, though, is that poetry is very different from novels. The subject matter of this […]
So, small presses come in many different types–they have so many different personalities, and I have been very lucky to have worked with three very good ones. Biyuti Press is handling my poetry book, which we should be out early 2015. Actually, this book was supposed to have been out in late fall/winter 2014, but I am […]