Poets Series: torrin a. greathouse: Poetry, Disability, Trans Identity

Part 2 of the series this spring features torrin a. greathouse (she/her, they/them), a transgender cripple-punk poet from Southern California. Her work is published in the New York Times, POETRY, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Best New Poets 2020. They are the author of two chapbooks, There is a Case That I Ɐm (2017) and boy/girl/ghost (2018). Her first full-length collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, was published in winter 2020. www.torringreathouse.com

“What does it mean to live in a body? To suffer in this late empire? To survive and offer a song? Wound from the Mouth of a Wound does all of this, yes – with intimacy, with honesty, with precision. torrin a. greathouse is an inimitable, endlessly compelling poet.” –Ilya Kaminsky

The Charles D. and Marjorie J. Thompson Visiting Poets Series brings acclaimed poets to the Babson College community. The series honors diversity, inclusion, and artistic excellence. Because of pandemic pressures on travel and gathering in crowds, the 2021 series will be a live-streamed virtual event.