This reading and lecture by poet and community organizer, Matty Layne Glasgow, invites us to consider the paradoxical—how we might deconstruct established taxonomic categories of genre, science, and cultural identity to help us innovate new practices that can embrace the queer and fluid, the lyric, joyful, and connective.
Rethinking established taxonomic categories can create an imaginative space that not only obscures and “queers” rigid binaries, but also helps us cultivate kinship relationships that can transcend difference—whether those differences be gendered and cultural, or species-based. Through this reimagining, we can find creative practices that foster community and forge new intersections of experience that connect, rather than enforce previous separations of identity and subculture.
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the award-winning poetry collection "deciduous qween", published by Red Hen Press in 2019, He is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Charleston where he teaches poetry and nonfiction. A 2022-2025 Black Earth Institute Fellow, Glasgow co-edited the About Place Journal’s “Strange Wests” and served as Editor of Quarterly West, as well as the coordinator of the Wasatch Writers in the Schools program in Salt Lake City.
A graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State, Glasgow also received a PhD in Creative Writing & English Literature from the University of Utah where he was awarded a Vice Presidential Fellowship, a Jeff Metcalf Humanities in the Community Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center. Matty’s poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from "Crazyhorse", "Copper Nickel", "Denver Quarterly", "Ecotone", "Gulf Coast", "Houston Public Media", "Kenyon Review", the "Missouri Review", "Pleiades", "Poetry Daily", "Third Coast", and elsewhere.
This lecture recording can be found on the Available Recordings page approximately two business days after the event and will remain accessible for three weeks.
The University Book Store will be onsite selling the speaker's book at the event.
