Live Poetry: S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx

Hosted at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia

Also on Zoom:

S/He Speaks 2 is edited by Cassendre Xavier and Tom Daubert. 

When we launched the S/He Speaks anthology in 2023, we noted that anyone likely to read it would already be well aware of the ongoing “Cold War” in the United States targeting the rights of women and transgendered people. Once again, this anthology comes in conjunction with an afternoon-long event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania, where writers who can attend will read from their works and discuss their writing. All the poems and short essays here come from people who take their writing seriously. Many are women. Some are transgendered, both male-to-female and female-to-male. Others define themselves as nonbinary. All have something meaningful and personal to say, inspired by our calls for short writing of this nature, whether about gender and transition issues, health and life experience, relationships — anything personal. We hope readers will find some inspiration here — and possibly as a result, begin their own writings.

Featured Contributors

Ashley Andrews

Philip Avilov

Mikey Bachman

Lainey Bechta

Janice F. Booth

Ariana Chavez

Taffeta Chime

Cathyann Cusimano

F. Daubert

Rebecca Dietrich

V. Eidson

Ellen Gannon

Kate Gardner

Melissa Gibson

Liora Hassan

Rosalie Hendon

Samantha Hollins

Zoe Mae Huot-Link

Erin Jamieson

Isabella Kaufman

Jess Kratzer

Amira Kravitz

Deborah LeFalle

Josephine LoRe

Betsy Merbitz

Mira Mookerjee

Beth S.K. Morris

Carlene Stegman Moskal

Gloria Nixon-John

Sophia Ogden

Emma Paris

Breanna Reyes

Adya Ryan

Yvette Santana

Jen Schneider

Zoe Katherine Shelley

Brian “Brie” Sheridan

Tanjanike “Tan” Shivers

Ellie Smillie

Megha Sood

Makani Speier-Brito

Laura Sweeney

Renée  Szostek

Natalia Tola

Suzannah “Su” Van Gelder

Jamie C. Whitlow

Harley Woods

Morgan Wright

Cassendre Xavier

Alexis Young

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