&Now 2019 Conference

Four trans, genderqueer and non-binary poets will showcase how they work beyond the printed page. In addition to work that exists at the intersection of the body and text, these poets produce interdisciplinary work which creates embodied, living, and breathing works through the use of image, sound, dance, performance, recording, and video. The results are multi-disciplinary, often refractive, accumulating into fluid, rich, and multi-layered forms.

Working in parallel to gender identity, trans, genderqueer and non-binary poets often push against the boundaries of genre, layering text-based work with other art practices and mediums. A radical trans-poetics does not restrict itself to text as an entrance to meaning. The intersection of body and text, although common to the work of many poets, finds a heightened necessity in the work of these trans, genderqueer and non-binary poets, inducing them to create forms that more closely track the reality of their bodies, identities, and experience.