torrin a. greathouse presented by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center

This is a hybrid event, in person at Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall and streaming here and on KZbin.
greathouse’s reading will be followed by a conversation with Jina Kim. Books will be sold by Broadside Books before the event and a signing will follow the reading.
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torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet, essayist, and educator whose work blends myth and biography to uncover profound truths. Described by poet Danez Smith as a reluctant formalist, her collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), showcases her inventive use of language to explore trauma, memory, and selfhood. As a trans, disabled, neurodivergent woman and survivor, greathouse offers nuanced insights into the body, which she describes variously as kindling, an unfinished moth, and a repeatedly revised rough draft of a coast. Her work affirms the intrinsic value of every body, demonstrating that irregularity is a doorway, not a defect.
In addition to her debut collection, greathouse is the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English Language & Literature, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and the Smith College Accessibility Resource Center.