t.r. san
burmese transsexual poet
writing horror without meaning
to. hole theorist, water
speaker/dialectician.t.r. san is inspired
by the works of Qiu Miaojin,
Helen Oyeyemi & layli long soldier,
Buddhist (de/re)constructions
of (non-)selfhood, & the fact
of a body. it mirrors too hard
and walks like shells on display.
Selected Works
poetry
Major 7th Magazine
This HouseAngel Rust Magazine
When We Slur Our Own WatersCorporeal
+ Country Roads Between Fields That the Military Seized Will Take Me to the Ultimate Home
+ my own private nonexistence
+ pluto probably has a hole in his heart and we will never know
- Please zoom in/out accordingly so that the third piece can be read as 2 columns. fifth wheel press
collapse (reprint)New Note Poetry
self-portrait at nine in the morning reading letters my mirror sends me
- Page 6ZiN Daily
i shut my thumb between the sash & sill of a windowThe Dawn Review
Barber on [] Island
- 2024 Best of the Net Anthology nominationJAKE
trans girl stuff playlist, 3.7k likes, "so not all of it is trans femme but it's a playlist i listen to when i'm dysphoric"
Flash Fiction
Erato Magazine
Thuzar's Door
- Page 7Cobra Milk Magazine
Sour Grilled Home for DinnerFish Barrel Review
Astronomical Bodies
Forthcoming
Poetry
beestung
introduction to t.r. san’s self &/or body &/or craft &/or hypocrisyFull Mood Magazine
i'm every sparkly machine
All Publications
pieces not featured in "Selected Publications"Mister Magazine
Disappointing Prior Walter the Thirty-FourthVIBE
The Pronoun Poem They Teach at Transsexual HighFive South Journal
When the Writer Tries to Make Numbness HumaneFear and Trembling: A Community Horror Zine
On Nighttime Hunger and Actual, Real Bodiesthe lickety~split
1902Travesties?! Press
My Trans Body As Karmic VengeanceKarma Comes Before
Forgive Me for I Havethe tide rises, the tide falls
Goodbye
- collaboration with Snigdha GarudThe Eunoia Review
Love (Making) Language