Remi Recchia
Poet. Essayist. Editor. Scholar.
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PRAISE FOR QUICKSAND/STARGAZING
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Remi Recchia’s poetry is both tender and darkly funny, deftly interspersing lines like “Did Christ/appraise his wounds for insurance?” along with “I don’t want/you to know we’re alone,/so let me be your star.” The poems in this book are intimate and personal, often chronicling and meditating on what life is like with a partner, that close bond like no other, while also exploring identity, gender, the aftermath of top surgery, exes, family, and navigating all of that in a complicated and ever changing world. This collection brought me joy reading it and just knowing it exists. I hope it does for all readers.
JOANNA C. VALENTE,
author of A LOVE STORY
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These poems engage with what it means to be an authentic human-animal: to be endangered and empowered at once, to be "harsh and golden and brave," to compassionately inhabit the complex space between the poles of this collection's title. Quicksand/Stargazing amazes me with its range of forms and shapes, all woven through with a voice that is ecstatic, urgent, tender, and unflinching. This voice insists that it is still possible to seriously, honestly, unironically believe in love. “I am not embarrassed by most things” proclaims Remi Recchia, and how lucky that makes the readers of this brilliant and necessary book.
F. DANIEL RZICZNEK, author of NAG CHAMPA IN THE RAIN
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After four days in a tomb, the resurrected Lazarus must have known something about faith, transformation, and becoming a challenge to normative culture. In Quicksand/Stargazing, Remi Recchia offers up tender songs and precise guides to living and loving through the relentlessness of gender norms. Before using a public bathroom, "[t]ell your wife where you are, how long you’ll be. Take your phone with you." These poems remind us that the everyday is transformative--and that what's transformative is both sweet and perilous: "If I stood, I know I would rise / like a Lazarus in the heat of certainty."
K. LORRAINE GRAHAM, author of THE REST IS CENSORED
EDITING & CONSULTING SERVICES
As an experienced instructor, editor, and writing consultant, I am pleased to offer written feedback on MFA application materials, single poems and poetry collections, and personal statements and statements of purpose for other graduate programs. Rates are $30/hour for one hour minimum.
QUALIFICATIONS
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11+ years of editing experience
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6+ years of writing center experience
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4 years of teaching experience at the university level
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BA in English
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MFA in poetry
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100+ individual poem, essay, and story publication credits
BIO
Remi Recchia, PhD, is a Lambda Award-winning trans poet, essayist, and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi's work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He is the author of six books and chapbooks, most recently Addiction Apocalypse (Texas Review Press, forthcoming), and the editor of Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us (Sundress Publications, 2024). Remi has received support from Tin House, PEN America, and the Poetry Foundation. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and a PhD in English-Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University.