play is always at the heart of poetry. i believe this deeply. even when the subject matter is not fun, not joyful, even when it is very difficult (which is often the case), there's still play happening in the language, in the form, in the leaps & associations, in the ampersands, even in the silences

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Your anti-Trans laws are disgusting.

There’s something so romantic about being a writer dating a writer, being out on a coffee & work date, and realizing you’re both counting syllables on your fingers to check the scansion of your sonnet

This issue also includes must-read interviews with Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, gaita nihil, Cole Rizki — and there’s so much more This whole issue is free to read on Project MUSE through May 15! Read here: tiny.one/3h8j64z8

To celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth, with a spotlight on some of our favorite poets with disabilities! These poets craft thoughtful, personal work that represents the rich variety of identities and experience that they hold. Who are your favorite poets? Let us know in the comments!

they tortured someone to death

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

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’m too famous to not have a @wikipedia.org page, somebody should fix that

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

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

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

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.

torrin a. greathouse #smallpoemsunday

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.

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

I love this poem by torrin a greathouse! poets.org/poem/bondage...

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: poets.org/poem/operati...

Wesleyan University Press award-winning poet @tagreathouse.bsky.social is now being represented by @blueflowerarts.bsky.social! #torrinagreathouse #Poetry

No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism by torrin a. greathouse "Each needle, each pill, a seed planted in my body." 🧵🔖 99

This fine essay by @tagreathouse.bsky.social has a lot to say about that: copper-nickel.org/the-crooked-...

Unsurprisingly this now means they are also defining for lesbians who they're allowed to be attracted to while still "qualifying" as a lesbian, and bars trans people from their own gender specific places while also admitting they're likely to be kicked out of their assigned ones based on appearance.

I have a dual review out today, of @emdashphillips.bsky.social and @tagreathouse.bsky.social's beautiful books. Link below!

DEED by MFA alum @tagreathouse.bsky.social is recommended by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social "a reclamation of language and love, the stories we tell about seizure and scar, and what it means to survive in sickness, to desire and care for the disabled self and others"

A massive banner was been furled in DC. It contained the names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 by Zionist ruling trash in Israel and the US.

For @electricliterature.com I wrote about the lack of disability representation in writing workshops, my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, and seven recent poetry collections about the disability experience. electricliterature.com/7-poetry-col...

Deed by torrin a. greathouse www.weslpress.org/978081950132... The newest addition to my trans poetry favorites, I found this book via @thetransfemininereview.com. Heavy topics + a repeated "How could these words be put together like that!! Wow!!!" feeling. I need more (there is more!)

Here are some of our nonfiction picks. Let us know if you know or have read any of them! #disability #transdayofvisibility #TVOD

torrin a. greathouse (@tagreathouse.bsky.social) is a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow. A poet and essayist, greathouse explores transness, disability, intergenerational trauma, and desire in her writing. Listen to her read from a poem here:

Introducing the 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows. Haymarket Books and @mellon.org are honored to welcome these twenty writers. Read more here:

See y’all at AWP 2025!!! I have a book signing for DEED & a few offsites I’m really excited for!