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Mya Matteo Alexice is a non-binary, Black and white graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA. A Cave Canem fellow and pseudo-librarian, they are the author of A Shape We’ve Yet to Name (Game Over Books, 2024). Their poems can be found in or are forthcoming in publications such as Pleiades, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Bennington Review, Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, The Pinch, Cherry Tree, underblong, and elsewhere. They’ve received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and more. They were the runner-up in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest judged by Gary Soto. They enjoy video games where you can make the characters kiss.

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A Shape We’ve Yet to Name

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Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice (Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment)

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Silvercloak (Silvercloak Saga, #1)

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Times Square Red is an amazing memoir / time capsule, but it also glosses over certain things that I wish it would have spent more time on. Same with Times Square Blue, which is more academic but still lacking when it came to personal accountability.
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absolutely crucial dive into pre World War II New York City, which actually had a thriving and visible gay world.
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really enlightening and astounding. at times hard to push through but completely worth it for these necessary frameworks to view the United States past and present.
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“It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This”
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“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now,”
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“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”
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“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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