born again, now as myself
by Su Van Gelder
GESTALT is a collection of autobiographical poems with accompanying illustrations that work in concert to play with space on the page. The chapbook takes the reader through a heartfelt journey through trauma and fear, emerging in a place of hope.
born again, now as myself is organized in two sections, Metamorphoses and Reflexions. The collection explores Su’s experiences as a queer nonbinary young adult. Growing up, Su was also growing into their true gender identity, giving them little time to mourn their youth before being thrust immediately into another adolescence.
Monstrous Cartography
by Robin Gow
Through conjuring sea monsters and holding somatic rituals, MONSTROUS CARTOGRAPHY charts and recharts the distances between self, gender, and the words we use to make ourselves legible. These poems speak simultaneously through the bodies of creatures culled from 16th and 17th-century maps and moments of present queer life. Speakers ask, answer, and ask again, how and if we can map our queer complexities.
Robin Gow (it/fae/he & él y elle) is a trans poet and witch from rural Pennsylvania. He is the author of several poetry collections, an essay collection, and Middle-Grade and YA novels. Faer novels include Ode to My First Car, A Million Quiet Revolutions, and Dear Mothman. Fae works as a community educator, calling folks into discussions around queer and disability justice. It lives with its partner Rain and their menagerie of animals.
GESTALT
by C. Show
GESTALT is a collection of autobiographical poems with accompanying illustrations that work in concert to play with space on the page. The chapbook takes the reader through a heartfelt journey through trauma and fear, emerging in a place of hope.
C. Show (they/them) is a Central Arkansan author who writes poetry in nontraditional forms as well as speculative fiction and satire. Their short fiction has been previously published in ImageOutWrite, Every Day Fiction, and Flash Fiction Magazine. Their chapbook GESTALT is their first poetry publication.
Each poem is accompanied by an illustration. The poems themselves are formatted in a way that plays with space on the page. As an artist, Show enjoys using space having found themself limited by traditional forms.
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