Winner of the 2017 National Poetry series, trans poet Jos Charles’ revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, features a transliteration of English—“Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect”—that acts as a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, to make space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary. Join us to experience Charles’ visual exploration of the hows and whys behind feeld’s powerful use of transliterated language to speak about trans experience, and the exquisite ways in which the poet quite purposefully pushes boundaries of language, spelling, space, and syntax in order to express identity.

This program is presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.

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A book signing will follow this program.