Episode 51: TC Tolbert

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Host Rachel Zucker talks with poet and educator TC Tolbert (author of Gephyromania and co-editor of Troubling the Line) about a car accident that changed the course of his writing life, the process of healing, learning to love the smallest things, having to ask someone to carry your weight, speaking to a younger self and coming out as trans. They talk about teaching, wanting to go back to school, and about the Bagley Wright Lecture Series conference at University of Arizona.

Books by TC Tolbert

• Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014)

• Conditions/Conditioning (New Lights Press, 2014)

• I: Not He: Not I (Pitymilk Press, 2014)

• Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Editor, Nightboat Books, 2013)

• spirare (Belladonna* chaplet 2012)

• Territories of Folding (Kore Press, 2011)

Other Writers, Artists and Books Mentioned in the Episode

• Srikanth Reddy

• Simone Weil

• Khadijah Queen’s Fearful Beloved (Argos Books, 2015)

• Hafiz

• bell hooks

• Louise Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love (ARP Books/AK Press, 2013)

Other Relevant Links

• TC's Author Bio (third tab)

• AWP Panel: In Whose Image: Trans and Genderqueer Writers on Magic, Spirituality, and (the Bodies of) G-d (feat. TC, CA Conrad, Joy Ladin, Ryka Aoki, Ian Ellasante)

• Haiku Zine: Rinky Dink Press

• Outward Bound

• Casa Libre — literary arts nonprofit

• University of Arizona

• OSU Cascades

• Poetry Center in Tucson