Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

This hybrid talk/reading will consider time and timing as animating problems for black trans life writing. Drawing together poetry, personal narration, and something approaching a theoretical register, Cameron Awkward-Rich's remarks will be something of an experiment in answering the question: what does it mean to write a black trans past?

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and scholar of transgender theory/cultural production. He is the author of two collections of poetry--Sympathetic Little Monster (2016) and Dispatch (2019)--and his critical writing has been published in Signs, Transgender Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly, and elsewhere. Presently, Awkward-Rich is an assistant professor of women, gender, sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.