https://syarberry.com syarberry.com Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:05:12 +0000 https://syarberry.com en https://syarberry.com/2 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:05:10 +0000 syarberry.com https://syarberry.com/2 01 This place is called Beulah The lake was blue pastoral,and it was clear and my facewas inside it next to yours. -Tin House&nbsp; https://syarberry.com/3 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:05:10 +0000 syarberry.com https://syarberry.com/3 02Trans is Latin for acrossAcross, as in: over there, beyond. The phrase life-expectancy isn’t sexy, per se. Though it is beautiful to have a life—and a love. Even when I think: I wish I could be only a freakout, only crossing the street. - Sixth Finch https://syarberry.com/Logo Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:05:11 +0000 syarberry.com https://syarberry.com/Logo https://syarberry.com/The-Other-Manifesto Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:05:12 +0000 syarberry.com https://syarberry.com/The-Other-Manifesto S. Yarberry (he/they)&nbsp;is a trans poet, writer, and scholar. They are the author of A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2022) as well as the two forthcoming collections, The Robert Poems (Deep Vellum, Fall 206) and Urgent, Stars (Deep Vellum, Fall 2027). Their poems have appeared in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Boiler, miscellaneous zines, among many others. His peer-reviewed articles have appered in Studies in Romanticism and European Romantic Review. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now finishing a PhD in literature at Northwestern University—where they study William Blake. Smith currently serves as the Graduate Assistant to Northwestern’s Public Humanties Practicum and edits the little magazine Tyger Quarterly.&nbsp;<img width="1353" height="1924" width_o="1353" height_o="1924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3810c0259b1eed40ee81522e0396a1dc4565860cd2bc829add52d15713cd2cd/Untitled2-1_page-0001-1---new-crop.jpg" data-mid="245083632" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3810c0259b1eed40ee81522e0396a1dc4565860cd2bc829add52d15713cd2cd/Untitled2-1_page-0001-1---new-crop.jpg" /> (orginal collage,“Skateboarding with William Blake I” by S. Yarberry) CV&nbsp; for questions &amp; queriesemail Smith at syarberry at u.northwestern.edu EDUCATION Northwestern University, 2020- &nbsp; &nbsp; Ph.D., English, Spring 2026 (expected) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “Trans Impossibilities and the 1790s: The Imaginative Bodies of William Blake” &nbsp; &nbsp; Dissertation Committee: Tristram Wolff (chair), Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, Kate &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Singer (Mount Holyoke College), Harris Feinsod (Johns Hopkins University) Washington University in St. Louis, 2017-2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; M.F.A, Creative Writing (Poetry)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Boy in the City: Poems&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thesis Committee: Carl Phillips, Mary Jo Bang, Aditi Machado Lewis &amp; Clark College, 2012-2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; B.A., English RESEARCH INTERESTS &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry &amp; Poetics; 18th-Century Literature; British Romanticism; Trans and Queer Studies SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles &nbsp; &nbsp; “Rage, Embodiment, and Withdrawal: Trans Impossibilities in William Blake’s The [First] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Book of Urizen,” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 63, no. 4, Winter 2025, 557-568 (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; “Writing Robert Blake,” European Romantic Review, vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 2025, 341-358 Public Scholarship &amp; Interviews &nbsp; &nbsp; “T.R. Brady interviewed by S. Yarberry,” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 63, no. 4, Winter 2025,&nbsp;569-578 &nbsp; &nbsp; The Brooklyn Rail, “Desire, Joy, and Sadness in Spinoza’s P18,” 2023 (online) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Bent into Myth A Conversation with jayy dodd-The Adroit Journal &nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Post/Poet: S. Yarberry Interviews Kiki Petrosino-Hell’s Printing Press (The Blog of &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly), 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Post/Poet: S. Yarberry Interviews S. Brook Corfman-Hell’s Printing Press (The Blog&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly), 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Guest post/poet: S. Yarberry Interviews Aditi Machado- Hell’s Printing Press (The Blog of &nbsp; &nbsp; the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly), 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Standardizing the Vernacular: Jos Charles Interviewed by S. Yarberry- BOMB Magazine, &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; POETRY PUBLICATIONS Books &nbsp; &nbsp; Urgent, Stars (Deep Vellum, forthcoming, Fall/Winter 2027) &nbsp; &nbsp; The Robert Poems (Deep Vellum, forthcoming, Fall/Winter 2026) &nbsp; &nbsp; A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2022) &nbsp; &nbsp; Winner of the 2022 Foreword INDIES award for Poetry; Reviews in Pleiades, Harriet Books, ANMLY,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Third Coast Review Magazines &amp; Journals&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Guernica, The Robert Poems (excerpt), 2024&nbsp; (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Dialogist, “Robert Blake’s Dream,” 2023&nbsp; (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Gulf Coast, “Meeting in Space (Robert’s Wet Dream)” &amp; “Notes from Robert’s Journal,” 2023, print&nbsp; &nbsp; Sequestrum, "My Own Heart," "An Apocalyptic Wanting, Wanting," and "Listen:,” 2023 (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Another Chicago Magazine, “No Worst (Robert’s Wet Dream),” 2023&nbsp;(online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry Society, “Stage Directions,” 2022 (online)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Spectrum, “Tradition” &amp; “Keyhole. Double. Batwing. Donut.” 2022, print&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hot Pink Mag, “A Romantic Sonnet,” “New York,” &amp; Television Pilot,” 2022 (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, “Some Thoughts on the Monostich,” 2022 (essay, online)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; AGNI, “Down Below,” 2021, print&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Michigan Quarterly Review, The Robert Poems (excerpt), 2021 (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Ruminate, “A Kind of Lightning,” 2021 (online, best of the net nomination) &nbsp; &nbsp; Pinwheel, “CHAPTER,” 2021 (online)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Redivider, “Island of Calypso” (previously, “Enter the Ghost”), 2020 (best of the net nomination) &nbsp; &nbsp; The Afternoon Visitor, “Icarus” &amp; “Terminal Theatre,” 2020, (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; pulpmouth, “The History,” 2020, (online)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Sip Cup, “Self-Portrait” (previously, “Self-Portrait in Orthopedic Black Tie”), 2020, (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; The Boiler, “Imagine,” “Requiem Circuit,” &amp; “Boyhood,” 2020, (online, best of the net nomination) &nbsp; &nbsp; echoverse, “The Sea&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Night&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lilacs,” 2020, (online)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Tin House, “This place is called Beulah,” 2019, (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Washington Post: The Lily Magazine, “Stepping Out,” 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; jubilat (V. 34), “A cloak you cannot take off.,” 2019, print &nbsp; &nbsp; Berkeley Poetry Review (V. 49), “Graphic,” “Anteroom,” &amp; “Letter,” 2019, print&nbsp; &nbsp; Best Buds! Collective, “The Cave,” 2019 (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Indiana Review (V. 41.1), “Sphinx,” 2019, print&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Nat Brut, “You Having Been,” 2019, (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sixth Finch, “Trans is Latin for across.,” 2019, (online)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DREGINALD, “I despair! I disengage.,” “Emanation Song,” &amp; “Gesture Towards Immortality,” 2019, (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Burnside Review, “Automania,”&nbsp; 2019, print &nbsp; &nbsp; Cape Cod Poetry Review, “Spiral House,” 2019, print &nbsp; &nbsp; Queer Voices: Prose, Poetry, and Pride, from Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Notre Dame Review, Manifesto / Prologue &amp; “In the Night Harbor,” 2019, print &nbsp; &nbsp; The Offing, “Intimacy Abstract” &amp; “I kiss the fire in your hands, or City-Builders,” 2018, (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; FIVE:2:ONE’s #thesideshow, “McDonalds 3 Times” &amp; “Angels in Conversation, 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; Touchstone Magazine, “She started out as a flame-painting,” 2017, print&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TEACHING EXPERIENCE Northwestern University &nbsp; &nbsp; Introduction to Creative Writing, Fall 2025 (Instructor of Record) &nbsp; &nbsp; The Art(s) of Skateboarding: Poetry, Journalism, &amp; Film, Winter 2024 (Instructor of Record) &nbsp; &nbsp; Introduction to British Literature, Winter 2022 (TA) &nbsp; &nbsp; Introduction to Poetry, Fall 2021 (TA) The Loft Literary Center (online) &nbsp; &nbsp; Reading &amp; Writing the Poetic Line, Spring 2020 (six weeks) Washington University in St. Louis &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry Writing I, Spring 2020, Fall and Spring 2019, Fall 2018 Community Teaching &amp; Guest Lectures &nbsp; &nbsp; Found Broadsides: A Poetry Workshop, (August 21st, 2025, single session), The PO Box Collective,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Chicago, IL - Instructor &nbsp; &nbsp; The Art of Poetry &amp; Song: Lyric Writing Workshop, (March 2025, single session), Louisville Orchestra,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Louisville, KY- Instructor &nbsp; &nbsp; Welcome to Trans Studies, (October 8th, 2025, single session), The PO Box Collective, Chicago, IL -&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Instructor &nbsp; &nbsp; I was in a printing house in Hell: Reading &amp; Writing with William Blake, (June 2024, single session), LMNL&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Lit (online)- Instructor &nbsp; &nbsp; 18th Century Echoes: Trans Poetics Across Borders of Space &amp; Time — A Conversation with Prof. Rachel&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Galvin and S. Yarberry, (November 30th, 2023, Global 18th-Century Colloquium), Northwestern&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; University - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; Recycling &amp; Responding to William Blake with Katana Smith, (November 7th, 2023, Blake’s Afterlives,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Tristram Wolff), Northwestern University - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; Prophecy &amp; Poetry in Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven &amp; Hell, (April 2nd, 2023, Intro to British Lit, Prof.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Christine Froula), Northwestern University - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; Reading &amp; Writing Ekphrastic Poetry, (February 21st, 2023, Intro to Poetry, Prof. Aurora Masum-Javed),&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Macalester College - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; The Prophet &amp; The Bard: William Blake &amp; William Shakespeare, (February 7th, 2023, Shakespeare Off the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Page, Prof. Toby Altman), Beloit College - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; S. Yarberry on Writing A Boy in the City, (December 15th, 2022, Intro to Poetry, Prof. Colin Criss),&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Washington State University - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; The ‘Mind Forg’d Manacles’ of William Blake &amp; Ottobah Cugoano: Revolution, Abolition, and Prophecy,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; (January 5th, 2021, Intro to British Lit, Prof. Christine Froula), Northwestern University - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; Thinking Through Lyric Forms, (November 2nd, 2021, Intro to Poetry, Prof. Aditi Machado), University of&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Cincinnati - Guest Lecture &nbsp; &nbsp; On Independent Publishing, (January 5th, 2021, Literary Publishing, Prof. Meg Cass), University of Illinois &nbsp; &nbsp; Springfield - Guest Lecture FELLOWSHIPS &amp; HONORS &nbsp; &nbsp; Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library (two months), 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; Huntington Library Travel Grant, British Museum (London, UK) and Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria),&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; T.S. Eliot International Summer School, The Institute of English Studies at University of London, Summer&nbsp; &nbsp; 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; Mellon Cluster Fellow in Poetry &amp; Poetics, Northwestern University, 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp; Rumi Prize in Poetry (finalist), Georgia College, Summer 2020 &nbsp; &nbsp; Teaching Fellow in Poetry, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019-2020 &nbsp; &nbsp; Norma Lowry Memorial Award for Poetry, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS &nbsp; &nbsp; 2026 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Poetics of the Event,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, April 16th-19th &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Oothoon to Orc,” International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado College, Colorado&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Springs, CO, October 16th-18th &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Ecopoetics in a Time of Grief: Queer and Trans Perspectives,” Association of Writers and Writing&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Programs (AWP), Los Angeles, CA, March 26th-29th &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; “The ABCs of Creative Writing PhDs,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Los&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Angeles, CA, March 26th-29th &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Disorientation &amp; Dysphoria: Blake's Infernal Falls,” Modern Language Association (MLA), New&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Orleans, LA., January 9th-12th &nbsp; &nbsp; 2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; Chair, “The Eccentric Eighteenth Century,” American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; (ASECS), ON, CA, April 4th-6th, 2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Transness, Transmutability, and Creation in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen,” American&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS), St. Louis, MO, March 8th-12th, 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Transness, Transmutability, and Creation in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen,” Modern&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, CA, January 5th-8th, 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Enough! Or Too Much: The Political Sermons of Ottobah Cugoano &amp; William Blake,” International&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Conference of Romanticism (ICR), UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, October 20th-23rd, 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; 2022 &nbsp; &nbsp; “I don’t know what are a body and hands a mouth a sex: Trans Poetry; Trans Poetics,” Stanford-&nbsp; &nbsp; Berkeley Graduate Conference, Stanford University &amp; UC Berkeley (virtual), April 30th, 2022 SERVICE &amp; PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE &nbsp; &nbsp; Interdisciplinary Graduate Assistantship in the Public Humanities, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Public&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Humanities, Northwestern University, 2025-2026 &nbsp; &nbsp; Coordinator, Poetry &amp; Poetics Colloquium, Northwestern University, 2024-2025; 2022-2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-Chair, Trans &amp; Queer Caucus, American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, 2023-2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; Founder &amp; Coordinator, Kaplan Graduate Workshop in Trans Studies, Alice B. Kaplan Institute for the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Humanities, Northwestern University, 2024-2027 (secured three-year grant of $36,000 [$12,000 per &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; year]) &nbsp; &nbsp; Coordinator, Trans Poetics, Affects, Histories Workshop, Northwestern University, 2023-2024 (secured&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; $7,000 operating budget from the Office of Institutional Diversity &amp; Inclusions and the English&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Department) &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-Chair, Elected Graduate Student Organization (EGSO), Department of English, Northwestern&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; University, 2022 -2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-Chair, American Cultures Colloquium, Northwestern University, 2022-2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; Representative, Graduate Policy &amp; Placement Committee, Department of English, Northwestern&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; University, 2021- 2022 EDITING &amp; PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE &nbsp; &nbsp; Founder &amp; Organizer, PO BOX Poetry Series - Monthly Chicago Poetry Series, The PO Box Collective, April &nbsp; &nbsp; 2022 - Current &nbsp; &nbsp; Founder &amp; Editor, Tyger Quarterly - Online Quarterly Poetry Journal, Spring 2022 - Current &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry Editor, The Spectacle - Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2019 - Fall 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Revue Editor, The Spectacle - Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2017 - Fall 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry Coordinator, The MFA App Review - Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2018 - Fall 2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; Intern, Milkweed Editions - Minneapolis, MN, Summer 2016; Fall 2016 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS &nbsp; &nbsp; Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP); Modern Language Association (MLA); American &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS); the International Trans Studies Association (ITSA) <img width="3900" height="5400" width_o="3900" height_o="5400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de638436db40349990d6731a48426efc3e7507fcb31ecbde51ff767e91c1a6bf/unnamed-5.jpg" data-mid="141268672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de638436db40349990d6731a48426efc3e7507fcb31ecbde51ff767e91c1a6bf/unnamed-5.jpg" /> You can order A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2022) online HERE. Reviews &amp; Mentions:&nbsp;&nbsp; Poetry Foundation (online) ANMLY (online) Kenyon Review (online)&nbsp; Third Coast Review (online)&nbsp; Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (online) Commonplace Pod (online) Pleiades (online)