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online PUBLIcations & VideoS

(links below are to poems, unless otherwise specified)*


Guernica Magazine: "Cut Off"


America Magazine: "Original Bodies"


Another Chicago Magazine: "Where the Heart Is" (a short play)


Plenitude: "Supercuts"


beestung: a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings: "I am watching her on the internet like an ex."


Christian Century Magazine: My Gender Is a Circle (an essay)


Five Quarterly Magazine: “With Love”


decomP magazinE: “Crossfade”


DIAGRAM: “Books”


Mayday Magazine: "Crack"


Radius Lit:  

"Rudy Giuliani in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" 

"Kyle Kirchmeier, the Sheriff of Morton County, SD, in The Sixties"

"Betsy Devos in Ewoks: The Battle For Endor"

"Barack Obama in The Red Shoes"

"You & Me in Cabaret"


Menacing Hedge: 

 "Rush Limbaugh in The Wizard of Oz" 

"Jeff Sessions in The Big Lebowski" 

"Tomi Lehran in Pleasantville" 

"Mitt Romney in What Women Want "


Anomalous Press (poems with audio): 

“The Day Whitney Died”

“At War”

“Walking in the School”


Otoliths: 

“Steubenville"

“Poem in the Manner of Ezra Pound"

"Asymtote of the Car"

“Mummerusse"

“A/C" 

“Suppertime”

 “Of Robert Frost”


from THE EXCAVATION OF LIGHT AT THE WEDDING


Drunken Boat


word for/word 


Otoliths 

 

The New People: "Capitalism"


Occupy Wall St Poetry Anthology (search "Mertz"): "Ballad Against Money" 

 

Sawbuck: 

“Swim"

“Miracle 1: The Wedding"

“Miracle 2”

“Miracle 3”



REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS


Los Angeles Review of Books: "Madonna was my Sex- Ed Teacher": A Conversation with R/B Mertz


Chicago Review of Books: 44 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Noncomforming Authors


Autostraddle: "Burning Butch is the Trans Butch Memoir We've Always Needed


Them Magazine:  Burning Butch Review 


University of Pittsburgh English Department Alumni Magazine review of Burning Butch


West Trade Review: Transcending Intolerance and Living in Paradox: Review of Burning Butch


Memoirs with Melissa review and interview


2016 Interview on Out of Our Minds, a 45 year-old Poetry Radio show hosted on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm and streaming live on www.kkup.org by Rachelle Escamilla aka Poetita


2014 Interviewed by poet & scholar Guillermo Para about the Bonfire Reading Series in Pittsburgh, PA for Best American Poetry blog 







*A few publications are under the name Rebecca Mertz.

with Joseph Donato, photo by Kirby

Videos of Readings

Common Sense Reading: Ryan Eckes and R/B MertzCU T book launch at BGQSD with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Sarah M. Salah, and Andriniki MattisComing of Age Queer and Catholic: Sonora Reyes and R/B MertzBurning Butch book launch at white whale with Billy Wayne Coakley
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