We’re honored to be popping up at the book launch for Monster Beauties: A Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology at SPACE Gallery. We’ll have a table full of books written by trans authors amid a community of poetry lovers. Join us!

A bit about the event:

Trans Poetics Archive presents Monster Beauties: A Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology Book Launch hosted by the 7th Portland Poet Laureate, Maya Williams featuring a Trans Poetics Showcase and keynote speaker, Ian-Khara Ellasante, PhD. The anthology was funded by USM’s GRO Scholarship and a USM IDEC mini-grant and features poems by twenty-three Maine-affiliated trans and non-binary poets.

Trans Poetics Showcase Poetry Readers:

Jude Marx – 2025 Grand Prize Winner anthology contest
Hale Linnet
Lukcia Sullivan
Leo Eichfeld
River Martin
Sampson Spadafore
Jae Casella
Kyle Suthowski
Ben Cates
Calla Eris Orion
Eben Thomas
elm root
Prophett