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Sara Mae(author of Phantasmagossip) and tramaine suubi (author of phases) join us in Remington for a poetry reading from their new collections!
ABOUT PHANTASMAGOSSIP:
Phantasmagossip by Sara Mae is a packed funeral. The poems mourn shouting over one another to tell a story, squeezing hands of strangers and loved ones, picking at the many homemade mac n cheeses. The game of the Exquisite Corpse, usually played by many, is used here as a way into polyvocality, intimacy, and remembrance. Here, the poems infuse formal tradition with discomfort, adapt the shapes of literary and queer ancestors, speculate fleeting worlds of gender as the speaker sees theirs through and alongside best friends. Phantasmagossip does not romanticize death, but instead grapples with the stakes of gendered violence and the simultaneous desire for pleasure, dissecting accusations of dangerousness levied against women, fems, genderqueer speakers. The speakers seek acceptance of their own queer desires, alongside the grief that being looked at and desired is not always the same as being seen.
Phantasmagossip will be available for purchase at the event!
Sara Mae is a genderqueer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, a 2022 Tinhouse Summer Workshops Attendee, a 2022 Open Mouth Attendee, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. Their work appears in or is forthcoming from the Georgia Review, POETRY, The Offing, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out via Game Over Books. Their second chapbook, Phantasmagossip, won the Vinyl45 chapbook competition and is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2025. They write shimmery rock music as The Noisy. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville, and currently live in Philly.
ABOUT PHASES:
In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full.
Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi’s remarkable work is inspired by the moon—its phases’ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi’s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.
Phases is available for purchase at greedyreads.com!
tramaine suubi is a multilingual writer from kampala, and a graduate of the iowa writers’ workshop. she has published creative writing in sixteen literary anthologies, magazines, journals, and reviews—and counting. her debut is a full-length poetry collection titled. her forthcoming second book is also a full-length poetry collection titled stages, which will be published in january 2026. both books are publications of amistad, an imprint of harpercollins. tramaine serves as the managing editor of . she works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means necessary.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United States
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