This collection was selected as Second Place for the MAYDAY 2023 Micro-Chapbook Poetry contest.
“Transcolonial Poem stops us in our tracks formally and figuratively with its rejection of patriotism for a nation in which queer, racialized bodies are constantly exploited. As an X-ray of U.S. culture, this micro chapbook reveals the violent interiorities of nature preserves, technological advances, and heteronormative ideals.”
– Sophia Terazawa, 2023 Micro-Chapbook Contest Judge
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HANTA T. SAMSA is a transgenre and genrequeer poet and writer by way of Zhigagoong. he holds an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College and an MFA in Poetry from Virginia Tech. he was a 2023 Lambda Emerging Voices Fellow. hanta’s writing appears or is forthcoming in smoke and mold, the Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Salt Hill Journal and elsewhere, sometimes under his dead name. Find him on Instagram @hanta.tala.samsa.
