#tc tolbert

[galina]

I have seen the shape of happiness. I am holding it. It is your hand [x]

[librarycards]

From TC Tolbert, Gephyromania.

[allhearse]

TC Tolbert, 'On Braiding Hair Already Cut Away From the Scalp'

[bluesandbarebones]

What Space Faith Can Occupy

TC Tolbert I believe that witness is a magnitude of vulnerability. That when I say love what I mean is not a feeling nor promise of a feeling. I believe in attention. My love for you is a monolith of try.

The woman I love pays an inordinate amount of attention to large and small objects. She is not described by anything. Because I could not mean anything else, she knows exactly what I mean.

Once upon a time a line saw itself clear to its end. I have seen the shape of happiness. (y=mx+b) I am holding it. It is your hand.

[bestbookcover]

round 1, poll 260

click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!

which cover do you like best?

troubling the line by tc tolbert and trace peterson

The American Queen by Vanessa Miller

Voting ended onJan 16

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

[holeymolars]

TRANS AND NON-BINARY POETRY RECS:

What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa, by TC Tolbert (2021)

Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (2020)

memories of the good daughter by Raquel Salas Rivera (2018)

Three Definitions of Crossdressing by Silas Denver Melvin (2020)

name/s by Andrea Abi-Karam

A Transition like a Mexican Telenovela by Caleb T. Estrada (2021)

On Examination/Dereliction by torrin a. greathouse (2020)

Song for the Kicked Out by Kay Ulanday Barrett (2012)

Glitter by Keaton St. James (2016)

un [naming] / trans (After Golden) by Angelic Proof (2021)

What Must Be by Khalil F. Jordache (1984)

Dream Ending in a Host of Angels Zipping Me into My Grandmother’s Dress by Bradley Trumpfheller (2019)

Publick Universal Friend Contends with Orthography & Meditates in an Emergency by Day Heisinger-Nixon

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes I’m afraid I am afraid

of me, my trans sympathetic nervous

system, my trans fatigue

cracks, my trans 1st Corinthians 3:16 training

the god right out of my trans temple,

all trans dove, no savior; a trans baptism, holy

to be a fire (trans) trembling in the tear of the trans (daughter, trans) tongue.

— TC Tolbert, from “My Melissa,” published in Poetry

[seekingstars]

Crossing - TC Tolbert