ars poetica with penthouse and the ziptied ride from the women’s jail to the single cell for transsexuals
Apollo Chastain (he/they/she) is either crying in the club or crying in the archive. A transsexual poet, critic, and performance studies scholar, their work appears or is forthcoming in journals including Ploughshares, Poets.org, The American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, and Washington Square Review, among others. They have been supported by the McCormack Writing Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and UCLA’s Cota Robles Fellowship. They are a PhD student at UCLA and hold an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
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