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Claude-Canese Jarboe

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Just tremendous gratitude for this space co-created with artists from Prairie Works Design Studios (s/o to @rudemechanical7 and fam) at @thelandinstitute for the 2026 Prairie Festival. Thank you to @kelly_in_the_prairy and team for bringing us together. Any time spent in the presence of these beloved folks, I treasure. taken in Salina, Kansas by @back_talk

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evidence of being alive by @back_talk

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turn n burn in NOLA for 48 hours (love y’all so much) taken in New Orleans Poetry Festival by @back_talk

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feeling a little too visible you feel me???? (ft. some transgender quilt block haikus) by @back_talk

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"Queer poets connected to the South and to the Midwest prairie host a roundtable reading of their ecopoetic work, drawing on the storied history of queer and trans naturalist poets. From asexual and transgender plant species, to cruising spots, from the way fire opens seedpods to the way desire opens us to landscape—these poets trace how queerness and the land teach each other. What blooms in the margins? What thrives through transformation? How do our bodies learn from prairie persistence, from wetland regeneration, from species that refuse singular forms? Rooted in specific Southern and prairie ecosystems yet reaching toward broader networks of queer and trans ecological kinship, this reading celebrates attention that won't look away: the erotic life of rivers, the political dimensions of restoration, the futures we're composting together. Come hear poems that know the land as lover, teacher, co-conspirator in making worlds where we all might flourish."

Free & open to all!!

Where:
New Orleans Poetry Fest!
New Orleans Healing Center 250

When:
Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

Featuring:
Canese Jarboe
Megan Kaminski
Drien Thompson
Toni Garcia-Butler
Quinn Carver Johnson
Brody Parrish Craig
K Iver

join us 💕✨ taken in New Orleans Healing Center by @back_talk

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7 months ago

we tried really hard to keep him alive these last few months, but we had to let him go tonight. he weighed just half what he weighed three months ago. breaks my damn heart. love you, baby boy. 🖤 by @back_talk

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7 months ago

love of mine life by @back_talk

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a year ago

💒💞 10.24 by @back_talk

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a year ago

my heart taken in New York City by @back_talk

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a year ago

just a too-small glimpse into the past week (all my love to @gardendoorpress & @spencerfreak & my beloved @andimatic_ & @gideonhart000 & my dear chosen sibling @ivertownandcountry & @rchlltrmn & @aidanlyaeus & @solcabrini & @aristilding & my blood siblings @brood.iv @cody.jarboe & @toposbookstore & @bluestockingsnyc & @fitz_books_and_waffles & @grayhavenmotel & @motherwortband & everyone who has come out to support and written to me about SISSY). so, so much gratitude. 💚 taken in New York by @back_talk

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2 years ago

Today is the OFFICIAL RELEASE DAY OF SISSY!!! We’re so honored to have helped bring this incredible book into the world. Our launch party is tonight in Ithaca, and we begin shipping out preorders on Monday! YAY CANESE! taken in Grayhaven Motel by @back_talk

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Join us and @back_talk for the book launch of SISSY, a docupoetic collection by rural trans and queer poet Canese Jarboe, released by Garden-Door Press in Ithaca, NY this fall. It’s an exploration of queer rurality braided with the history of gay rodeo and queer activism in the heartland.

This event will feature readings from Canese and poet Gideon Hart! Come to Bluestockings, next Tuesday, 11/19 at 6-7:30PM and RSVP & pre-order a copy of SISSY at the link in our bio! 💚 taken in Bluestockings Cooperative by @back_talk

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