Trans* and Non-binary poetry - an ever evolving resource list

This is a resource list of poetry by Trans* and Non-binary* authors in alphabetical order by first name. Clicking on the title will take you to a site where you can purchase the book (when possible, the publisher’s website and/or an independent book source) or to the author’s website (for T+ENBY+ poets who have not yet published a book but are still out there, doing the work). This list is solely a labor of love to share and celebrate and acknowledge the expansive, life-changing work being done by T+ENBY+ poets (and to cut down on time searching and give us all more time to read their work). My job is to keep this list as up-to-date and comprehensive as possible and I appreciate any and all suggestions and/or additions. FYI: this is not a list of resources that include T+ENBY+ poetry; it is a list of resources that are solely dedicated to T+ENBY+ poetry (some of these authors publish in more than one genre, in which case I have only linked to their books of poetry). Please use the contact tab to suggest additions or changes. And please buy, read, share, and/or teach the work of Trans* and Non-binary poets!

Trans* and Non-binary Poetry Anthologies and/or collections

• We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel (Nightboat Books, 2020).

• Subject to Change: Trans Poetry and Conversation (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) Featuring: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, beyza ozer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Kay Ulanday Barrett; edited by H. Melt.

• Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson (Nightboat Books, 2013).

• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (University of Arizona Press, 2011).

Trans* and Non-binary poetry resources

• The Asexual, a journal publishing work by ace, aro, and agender authors.

• Glitter Tongue trans* and queer love poems.

• Heartspark Press, a volunteer-led, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, developing, and amplifying the creative voices of transgender girls, transgender women, and CAMAB (coercively assigned-male-at-birth) non-binary people everywhere.

• Meanwhile…Letterpress, queer and trans* letterpress in Illinois.

• The Pink Door Writing Retreat is a space exclusively for women, trans, feminine, MoC, and non-binary writers of color.

• Vetch online trans* poetry journal.

• Waves Breaking trans* poetry podcast, hosted by Avren Keating.

• #ENBYLIFE - online journal by non-binary and gender diverse writers

Books by Trans* and Non-binary poets (alphabetical by first name)

• Aaron Apps, Intersex (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2015) and Dear Herculine (Ahsahta Press, 2014).

• Adrian Silbernagel, Transitional Object (The Operating System, 2019).

• Aeon Ginsberg, website.

• Alan Pelaez Lopez, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2021).

• Aldrin Valdez, ESL, or You Weren’t Here (Nightboat, 2018).

• Ali Blythe, Hymnswitch (Gooselane, 2019) and Twoism (Gooselane, 2015).

• Alison Rumfitt, The T(y)ranny (zarf editions, 2019).

• Amir Rabiyah, Prayers for My 17th Chromosome (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) and coeditor of Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices (Trans-Genre Press, 2015).

• Anaïs Duplan, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016); Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017).

• Andrea Abi-Karam, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), Villainy (Nightboat Books, 2021).

• Andrea Lawlor, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016).

• Angel Dominguez, ROSESUNWATER (The Operating System, 2021), Desgraciado (Econo Textual Objects, 2017); Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015).

• Ari Banias, Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016).

• Ariel Goldberg, The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015).

• Arielle Twist, Disintegrate/Dissociate (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019).

• Aura Valdes, website.

• Ava Hofmann, website.

• Avren Keating, website.

• Berry Grass, Hall of Waters (The Operating System, 2019).

• beyza ozer, Fail Better (Fog Machine, 2017).

• Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House, 2017); NDN Coping Mechanisms (House of Anansi Press, 2019).

• blake nemec, Sharing Plastic (The Operating System, 2018).

• Bradley Trumpfheller, web.

• C. Bain, Debridement (great weather for MEDIA, LLC, 2015).

• C. Russell Price, Tonight We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016).

• CA Conrad, The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010); A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012); ECODEVIANCE (Wave Books, 2014); and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017).

• Cal Calamia, website.

• Callie Gardner, Naturally, It is Not: A Poem in Four Letters (87 Press, 2018).

• Cam Awkward-Rich, Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019); Sympathetic Little Monster (Goldline Press, 2016); Transit (Button Poetry, 2015).

• Canese Jarboe, website.

• Catherine Hales, hazard or fall (Shearsman, 2010), feasible stratagems (Veer Books, 2013).

• Caspar Heinemann, Novelty Theory (87 Press, 2019).

• Cassie Donish, The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019); Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018); On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019).

• Cat Fitzpatrick, Glamourpuss (Topside Heliotrope, 2016).

• Charles Theonia, Which One is the Bridge (Topside Heliotrope, 2015).

• Chase Berggrun, R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018).

• Cheena Marie Lo, A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions, 2016).

• Ching-In Chen, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017); The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi/Red Hen, 2009).

• Christopher Soto (aka Loma), Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016); editor Nepantla: Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018).

• Chrystos, Not Vanishing (Press Gang, 1988), Dream On (Raincoast, 1991); In Her I am (Press Gang, 1993); Fire Power (Press Gang, 1995); Fugitive Colors (Cleveland State, 1995).

• Cody-Rose Clevidence, Listen My Friend, This Is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung Throne (Ahsahta Press, 2018) and Beast Feast (Ahsahta, 2016).

• Colette Arrand, HOLD ME GORILLA MONSOON (A Bad Penny Review, 2018).

• Constance Bougie, website.

• Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot (Nightboat Books, 2019).

• D’Lo, website.

• Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017); [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014).

• Danielle Rose, at first & then (Black Lawrence Press, 2021).

• Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House, 2017); Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015); DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books, 2011); A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007).

• Diana Goetsch, In America (Rattle, 2017); Nameless Boy (Orchises Press, 2015); The Job of Being Everybody (CSU Poetry, 2004).

• Duriel E. Harris, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat, 2017); Amnesiac: Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2010); Drag (Elixir Press, 2003).

• Eli Ryn Brown, Eightfold: (Lost Alphabet, 2018).

• Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling (Homofactus Press, 2017).

• Eliana Gray, Eager to Break (Girls on Key Press, 2019).

• Ely Shipley, Some Animal (Nightboat Books, 2018) and Boy with Flowers (Barrow Street, 2009).

• Emerson Whitney, Ghost Box (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014).

• emji spero, almost any shit will do (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014).

• Erica Mena, Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015).

• Erin M. Bertram, website.

• essa may ranapiri, ransack (Victoria University Press, 2019).

• Ever Jones (formerly JM Miller), nightsong (Sundress, 2021), Wilderness Lessons (FutureCycle Press, 2016).

• Evolve Benton, SIR: poetry dedicated to boihood & black queer love (2018).

• F. Robin Gow, website.

• Faye Chevalier, web.

• Francesca Lisette, sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics (Boiler House Press, 2018).

• Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea, 2005); Apocalyptic Swing (Persea, 2009); Rocket Fantastic (Persea, 2017).

• Gabriel Jesiolowski, as burning leaves (Red Hen, 2017).

• George Abraham, al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas (the Atlas Review, 2017); the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019).

• Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (Book Hug, 2019); Passage (Kegedonce, 2016).

• H. Melt, On My Way to Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2018); The Plural, The Blurring (The Neutral Zone, 2016); editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry and Conversation (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017).

• H. Nicole Martin, web.

• Hannah Ensor, Love Dream with Television (Noemi Press, 2018).

• Harry Josephine Giles, The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018).

• Huck Arteaga, web.

• Ian Khara Ellasante, web.

• Isobel O'Hare, all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2018);

• J Mase III, website.

• j/j hastain, Luci: a Forbidden Soteriology (Black Radish Books, 2015); Apophallation Sketches (Radicle Press, 2016); The Priest/ess Trilogy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017); Inverse Figs (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019).

• Jai Arun Ravine, The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2016); and then entwine (Tinfish, 2011).

• Jaime Shearn Coan, Turn It Over (Argos, 2015).

• Jamie Mortara, GOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE (YesYes Books, 2018) and some planet (YesYes Books, 2015).

• Jasmine Reid, website.

• Jay Bernard, Surge (Chatto & Windus, 2019).

• Jay Besemer, Theories of Performance (Lettered Streets Press, 2020), The Ways of the Monster (The Operating System, 2018); Crybaby City (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017); Chelate (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016); Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013).

• Jayson P. Smith, website.

• jayy dodd, The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books, 2019); Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017).

• Jenny Johnson, In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017).

• Jessica Baer, Holodeck One (Magic Helicopter Press, 2017).

• Johanna Hedva, website.

• John Pluecker, Ford Over (Noemi Press, 2016).

• Jordan Rice, Constellarium (Orison Books, 2016).

• Jos Charles, feeld (Milkweed, 2018); Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016).

• Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, There Should Be Flowers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016); Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope (Big Lucks 2018); I'M ALIVE. IT HURTS. I LOVE IT. (Big Lucks Books, 2019).

• Joy Ladin, The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017); Fireworks in the Graveyard (Headmistress Press, 2017); Impersonation (Sheep Meadow Press, 2015); The Definition of Joy (Sheep Meadow Press, 2012); Psalms (Wipf & Stock, 2010); Coming To Life (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010); Transmigrations (Sheep Meadow Press, 2009).

• Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017); Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012); gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011); and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books, 2009).

• Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland (Capricious, 2017).

• June Gehringer, web.

• Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called NO HOMELAND (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017).

• Kam Hilliard, DISTRESS TOLERANCE (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016); PERCEIVED DISTANCE FROM IMPACT (Black Lawrence Press, 2017).

• kari edwards, succubus in my pocket (EOAGH, 2015); have been blue for charity (BlazeVox: 2006); obedience (Factory School: 2005); iduna (O Books: 2003); a day in the life of p (subpress collective: 2002); a diary of lies, Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books: 2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS (xPress(ed): 2002); and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press: 2000).

• Kashif Sharma-Patel, website.

• Kay Gabriel, Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 (BOAAT Press, 2017).

• Kay Ulanday Barrett, When the Chant Comes (Topside Heliotrope, 2016).

• Kayleb Rae Candrilli, What Runs Over (Yes Yes Books, 2017).

• Kelly Caldwell, website.

• Kenan Ince, website.

• Kenning JP García AKA Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, So This Is Story (Shirt Pocket Press), They Say (West Vine Press, 2019); Never Read (West Vine Press, 2019).

• Kit Yan, Queer Heartache (Trans-Genre Press, 2016).

• Kokumo, Reacquainted With Life (Topside Heliotrope, 2016).

• Laurel Uziell, Instant Cop Death (Shit Valley Verlag, 2017).

• Lee Mokobe, web.

• Lilith Latini, Improvise, Girl, Improvise (Topside Heliotrope, 2015).

• Linda Kemp, Lease Prise Redux (Materials Press, 2016).

• Linette Reeman, Bloodmuck (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018).

• Luna Merbruja, Heal Your Love (Heartspark Press, 2018).

• M. Mack, Theater of Parts (Sundress Publications, 2016).

• Manuel Arturo Abreu, transtrender (Quimerica Books, 2016); List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015).

• Marie Hinson, Please Remit My Qubits: a trans hex on the birth of quantum supremacy (The Operating System, 2020).

• Max Wolf Valerio, The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces (EOAGH, 2019).

• Maxe Crandall, Together Men Make Paradigms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2014).

• Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014).

• Miles Walser, What the Night Demands (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013).

• Miller Oberman, The Unstill Ones (Princeton University Press, 2017).

• Mina Pam Dick, Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009).

• Miriam Suzanne, Riding Side Saddle (SpringGun Press, 2015) and Teacup Gorilla.

• Mud Howard, website.

• Nat Raha, Of Sirens - Body and Faultlines (Veer Books, 2015); Countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013).

• Natasha Dennerstein, Triptych Caliform (Norfolk Press, 2016), About a Girl (Norfolk Press, 2017), Seahorse (Nomadic Press, 2017).

• Nathanaël, Feder (Nightboat, 2016); Sotto l’immagine (Nightboat, 2014); Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal (Nightboat, 2012); Je Nathanaël (Nightboat, 2006).

• Never Angeline Nørth, Sea-Witch (2fast2house, 2017); Careful Mountain (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016); Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horseless Press, 2014).

• Nico Amador, Flower Wars (Newfound, 2017).

• Noah Baldino, web.

• Noor Ibn Najam, Praise to Lesser Gods of Love (Glass Poetry Press, 2019).

• Oliver Baez Bendorf, The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U., 2015); The Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University, 2019).

• Paige M. Lewis, Space Struck (Sarabande, 2019).

• Paul Tran, website.

• Qwo-Li Driskill, Walking With Ghosts: Poems (Salt Publishing, 2005); coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011).

• Rae White, Milk Teeth (The University Of Queensland Press, 2018).

• Raquel Salas Rivera, Caneca de anhelos turbios (Editora Educación Emergente); tierra intermitente/intermittent land (Ediciones Alayubia) (Their first two books were published in Puerto Rico.); lo terciario/the tertiary (Noemi Press 2nd edition, 2019); while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019).

• Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn (Pitt Poetry Series/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).

• Rose Knapp, Metempoiesis (Dostoyevsky Wannabe Experimental, 2020).

• Roz Kaveney, Dialectic of the Flesh (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2012).

• Ryka Aoki, Seasonal Velocities (Trans-Genre Press, 2012); Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul (Biyuti Publishing, 2014).

• S. Brook Corfman, Luxury, Blue Lace (Autumn House, 2019).

• s.g. maldonado-vélez, web.

• SA Smythe, website.

• Sade LaNay (fka Murphy), Dream Machine (co•im•press, 2014); Härte (Downstate Legacies, 2018); Self-Portrait (Birds of Lace).

• Samuel Ace, Our Weather, Our Sea (Black Radish, 2019); Meet Me There: NORMAL SEX & HOME IN THREE DAYS. DON’T WASH. (Belladonna, 2019); Stealth (a collaboration with Maureen Seaton) (Chax Press, 2011).

• Sandra Alland, Blissful Times (Book*hug, 2007).

• Sara Mithra, If the Color is Fugitive (Nomadic Press, 2018).

• Sarah M. Bess, web.

• Sarah Clark, web.

• Smokii Sumac, you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (Kegedonce Press, 2018).

• Spencer Williams, Alien Pink (Atlas Review, 2019).

• Stacey Waite, the lake has no saint (2008 Snowbound Prize in Poetry); Butch Geography (Tupelo Press, 2013).

• Stephen Ira, website.

• Stephanie Burt, Advice from the Lights (Graywolf, 2017); Belmont (Graywolf, 2013); Parallel Play (Graywolf, 2006); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing, 1999).

• Storme Webber, Blues Divine (RiverShe Collective Arts, 2014).

• Syd Staiti, The Undying Present (Krupskaya, 2015).

• syn jay, Bury Me in Thunder (Sundress, 2020).

• tanner menard, wanna live in a world w/a whole face (Full Spectrum, 2018).

• Tanis Franco, Quarry (University of Calgary Press, 2018).

• Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017).

• Taylor Johnson, website.

• TC Tolbert, Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014); co-editor, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013).

• Teré Fowler-Chapman, Bread & (Hope Etcetera Press, 2017).

• torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed, 2020), Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (Damaged Goods, 2017); boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018).

• Trace Peterson, Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2019); co-editor, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013).

• Travis Alabanza, Before I Step Outside [You Love Me].

• Trevor Dane Ketner, White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (Atlas Review, 2019); Negative of a Photo of a Fire (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019); Major Arcana: Minneapolis (Burnside Review, 2017).

• Trish Salah, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof Books, 2014/Metonomy Press, 2017); Wanting in Arabic (TSAR Publications, 2002/2013).

• Tyler Vile, Never Coming Home (Topside Heliotrope, 2015).

• Verity Spott, Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery (Pilot Press, 2018), Click Away Close Door Say (Contraband Books, 2019)

• Vicco G Naylor, website.

• Vivek Shraya, Even This Page is White (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017)

• Wo Chan, PBS, website.

• Wren Hanks, The Rise of Genderqueer (Brainmill Press, 2018).

• Xandria Phillips, Hull (Nightboat, 2019).

• xoài phạm, audio.

• Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press, 2019).

• Zach Ozma, Black Dog Drinking from an Outdoor Pool (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019).

• Zefyr Lisowski, Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018); Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019).

• Zoë Estelle Hitzel, Gender Flytrap (Sundress Publications, 2019).

• Zoe Tuck, Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014) and Soft Investigations (Daisy Mayhem, 2019).

**Note! This list includes folx who identify as Trans, Transgender, Transexual, Two-Spirit (2SQ), Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Non-binary, Gender Non-conforming, Agender, Andro, and anyone who does not identify as a cis woman or cis man. If you would prefer not to have your name/work listed here, please do reach out and I will remove you immediately. I am likely to be unintentionally missing amazing TNB+ poets - please let me know who should be added to this list. And thank you!