The Rockland Public Library and Millay House Rockland will host “Conversations of the Century with the Trans Poetics Archive” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 5, in the Community Room at Rockland Public Library. This event is free and open to all.
In a heart-to-heart with Edna St. Vincent Millay and her suffrage poem, “I, being born a woman and distressed,” Maine transgender poets and writers offer reciprocity by way of reflection and response. In solidarity with Millay, Trans Poetics Archive will explore queer concerns of being born a woman and distressed from a variety of transgender perspectives.
This project serves to mesh modern transfeminism to the cis (white) feminism of the suffrage movement, bringing awareness to those voices left out of this past century’s feminist literary canon. Participating poets are Maya Williams, Calla Eris Orion, Lonny Saleeby, Violet Ferlito and t love smith.
For more information or for Zoom links, email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov. The Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union St.
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