​"Magnificent and daring Trans Poet H. Melt provides documents, poems, journeys, Transtories. Groundbreaking."   - Juan Felipe Herrera, the US Poet Laureate

The Plural, The Blurring
by H. Melt

The Plural, The Blurring is a collection of poems and essays that critically celebrate Chicago’s queer and trans communities. This book is one of the first to focus on Chicago from a trans perspective and document the city's modern-day queer culture. It looks intimately at the lives of artists, writers, and activists who frequent queer and trans spaces—the closing bars, our rallies, marches, protests, and honors those who’ve passed away. The Plural, The Blurring dramatically shifts away from normative trans narratives and the call for assimilation from the mainstream LGBT movement. Instead, it unapologetically carves out a pathway in the field of transgender literature that is personal and political, combining the traditions of both queer and Chicago writing. 
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H. Melt

H. Melt is a poet and artist who was born in Chicago. Their work proudly documents Chicago’s queer and trans communities.Their writing has been published many places including The Feminist Wire, In These Times, Lambda Literary, Newcity, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. It also appears in the anthology Writing the Walls Down. Their art has been exhibited by the nationally touring show Strange Bedfellows, Temporary Allegiance, and Woman Made Gallery.

H. Melt is also a teaching artist who has organized workshops for the arts collective 3rd Language, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and Young Chicago Authors. They work at the Poetry Foundation and Chicago's feminist bookstore. H. Melt is the author of the chapbook SIRvival in the Second City, editor of the zine Second to None: Queer and Trans Chicago Voices, and released their first full-length book The Plural, The Blurring in the fall of 2015 with Red Beard Press.