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Robin Gow

Robin Gow
Courtesy of Robin Gow

ROBIN GOW is a trans and queer poet and middle-grade/young adult author. They are the author of several poetry collections and an essay collection as well as the YA verse novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).

We Are History: Ardor and Visibility in Robin Gow’s A Million Quiet Revolutions
by Katherine Fallon

June 22, 2022 Contributed By: Katherine Fallon, Robin Gow

A Million Quiet Revolutions cover

Written in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions queers both the novel and young adult genre by using altered form and subversive subject matter to break expected literary boundaries.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Fiction, Hybrid, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: June 22, 2022

I Know Who Orville Peck Is
by Robin Gow

December 9, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Orville Peck

Often, I tell people, “I like the word queer both for my gender and my sexuality because it makes me feel free.” I love the capaciousness.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: December 9, 2021

Articulating the Inarticulable: An Interview with Kayleb Rae Candrilli on their latest collection Water I Won’t Touch
by Robin Gow

August 23, 2021 Contributed By: Kayleb Candrilli, Robin Gow

Water I Won't Touch

I want to find ways to connect what maybe seems unrelated, until they are tied inexorably in the world of the poem or the book.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: August 23, 2021

Collaborative Gender(s): A Review of Ava Hofmann’s MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE
by Robin Gow

July 6, 2021 Contributed By: Ava Hofmann, Robin Gow

Ava Hofmann’s "MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE" Book Cover

The poems leave me curious about what it means to create these distinctions and what we can learn from our edges of “self.”

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: July 6, 2021

Holy Dispatches: A Review of Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations by Kopano Maroga
by Robin Gow

June 25, 2021 Contributed By: Kopana Morago, Robin Gow

Jesus Thesis Cover

Rightly dedicated to “Judas,” Kopano Maroga’s first collection imagines Jesus’s “lost years” as full of queer erotic bliss and newly vibrant prayers.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: June 25, 2021

What’s Foretold, What’s Witheld: An Interview with Donika Kelly on The Renunciations
by Robin Gow

April 26, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

The Renunciations by Donika Kelly

Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium (fivehundred places) and the full-length collections The Renunciations (Graywolf 2021) and Bestiary (Graywolf). Bestiary is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long-listed for the National Book Award and […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: April 26, 2021

Welcome Hauntings: A Review of Mark Wunderlich’s God of Nothingness
by Robin Gow

April 13, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

God of Nothingness Cropped

Mark Wunderlich’s poems conjure reluctant ghosts and waltz with rusted memories. This collection makes mourning and melancholy tangible.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: April 13, 2021

Apocalypse Singing: A Review of Claire Wahmanholm’s Wilder for Pandemic Times
by Robin Gow

March 30, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Cropped Book Cover

Claire Wahmanholm uses poems to take us through unraveling fairytales and the volatile terrain of our unraveling planet.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: March 30, 2021

Re-defining Drag Transformation: An Interview with Maxi Glamour
by Robin Gow

January 13, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Maxi Glamour

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity Robin Gow: It’s so nice to get to chat with you! I’m really grateful for this opportunity to delve into your work. I guess I want to start by asking where your drag name “Maxi Glamour” came from? Maxi Glamour: I created it when I […]

Filed Under: Culture, Interviews Posted On: January 13, 2021

Juno Was Always a Trans Movie
by Robin Gow

December 29, 2020 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Juno

I watched Juno with my partner two winters ago, on her laptop in the living room of my first grad school apartment. This wasn’t the first time I had seen it, but it was the first time I’d watched it since I had come out publicly as a transgender. My partner, also trans, and I […]

Filed Under: Culture Posted On: December 29, 2020

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