The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Gephyromania by TC Tolbert

 

This selection comes from TC Tolbert’s book, Gephyromania, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Eva Weidenfeld.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017. TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.

Eva Weidenfeld recently graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Film Studies. She is currently residing in Kennewick, Washington with her husband and her dog, where she is on a constant search for a wine she will actually enjoy drinking. She has worked as an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and as a reader for WWU’s Jeopardy Magazine, where her poem, ‘Superimposed,’ was published.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Gephyromania by TC Tolbert

 

This selection comes from TC Tolbert’s book, Gephyromania, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Eva Weidenfeld.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things.

TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017.

TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.

 

Eva Weidenfeld recently graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Film Studies. She is currently residing in Kennewick, Washington with her husband and her dog, where she is on a constant search for a wine she will actually enjoy drinking. She has worked as an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and as a reader for WWU’s Jeopardy Magazine, where her poem, ‘Superimposed,’ was published.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Gephyromania by TC Tolbert

 

This selection comes from TC Tolbert’s book, Gephyromania, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Eva Weidenfeld.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things.

TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017.

TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.

 Eva Weidenfeld recently graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Film Studies. She is currently residing in Kennewick, Washington with her husband and her dog, where she is on a constant search for a wine she will actually enjoy drinking. She has worked as an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and as a reader for WWU’s Jeopardy Magazine, where her poem, ‘Superimposed,’ was published.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Gephyromania by TC Tolbert

 

This selection comes from TC Tolbert’s book, Gephyromania, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Eva Weidenfeld.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things.

TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017.

TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.

Eva Weidenfeld recently graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Film Studies. She is currently residing in Kennewick, Washington with her husband and her dog, where she is on a constant search for a wine she will actually enjoy drinking. She has worked as an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and as a reader for WWU’s Jeopardy Magazine, where her poem, ‘Superimposed,’ was published.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Gephyromania by TC Tolbert

 

 

This selection comes from TC Tolbert’s chapbook, Gephyromania, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Eva Weidenfeld.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things.

TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017.

TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.

 

 Eva Weidenfeld recently graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Film Studies. She is currently residing in Kennewick, Washington with her husband and her dog, where she is on a constant search for a wine she will actually enjoy drinking. She has worked as an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and as a reader for WWU’s Jeopardy Magazine, where her poem, ‘Superimposed,’ was published.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: What’s Hanging on the Hush by Lauren Russell

This selection comes from Lauren Russell’s poetry collection What’s Hanging on the Hush, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Letitia Trent.

Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). A 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she also has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA/The Home School, the Rose O’Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazineboundary 2, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Brooklyn RailjubilatCream City Review, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor in English and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: What’s Hanging on the Hush by Lauren Russell

This selection comes from Lauren Russell’s poetry collection What’s Hanging on the Hush, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Letitia Trent.

Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). A 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she also has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA/The Home School, the Rose O’Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazineboundary 2, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Brooklyn RailjubilatCream City Review, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor in English and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: What’s Hanging on the Hush by Lauren Russell

This selection comes from Lauren Russell’s poetry collection What’s Hanging on the Hush, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Letitia Trent.

Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). A 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she also has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA/The Home School, the Rose O’Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazineboundary 2, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Brooklyn RailjubilatCream City Review, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor in English and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: What’s Hanging on the Hush by Lauren Russell

 

This selection comes from Lauren Russell’s poetry collection What’s Hanging on the Hush, available from Ahsahta Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Letitia Trent.

Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). A 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she also has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA/The Home School, the Rose O’Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazineboundary 2, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Brooklyn RailjubilatCream City Review, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor in English and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Lucy Ives’ “Orange Roses”

Lucy-Ives

Beastgardens

First Garden

Beastgarden.

Second Garden

Bees go mad on late summer evenings, should
People stray from their jobs towards water

Beastgarden.

Third Garden

Who makes the rented red boat’s
Oars turn

Who is the younger one always
Turning up

Who professes to be better because
He is just looking

Who says he is worse off as
He cannot look

Beastgarden.

Fourth Garden

The unicycle girl, thin
Like one with a sexual problem,
Goes through
The Schlosspark. This follows:
Father rolling his eyes

Beastgarden.

Fifth Garden

The man from Manchester
Has my breast in his hand

These are funny
They don’t do anything do they

Being burnt by a fire I say

Beastgarden.

Sixth Garden

Similarly, if only
You grasped some
Titanic misery or a
Love like an old man’s

Beastgarden.

 

Seventh Garden

Where were we

A ballroom competition goes on
A yellow satin bikini
A fuchsia floor-length are
Dancing; an audience is
Drinking, clapping 1 2 3 1 2 3

Beastgarden.

This selection comes from Lucy Ives’ book Orange Roses, available from Ahsahta Press. Purchase your copy here!

Lucy Ives was born in New York City in 1980, received an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently completing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. She has lived outside the U.S. for extended periods in Hirosaki, Japan, and Paris and has studied French, German, Greek, Japanese, and Latin, among other languages. A deputy editor with Triple Canopy, the arts magazine and publisher, Ives continues to live in New York.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of three poetry collections, As We Refer to Our Bodies (2013, 8th House), Temporary Champions (2014, Main Street Rag), and Not For Art For Prayer (2015, 8th House). He is the recipient of three Pushcart Prize nominations and a Best of the Net nomination. He is also a founding editor of Ovenbird Poetry and AltOhio. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.