Consent Violation I & II by Julian Mithra

  • Julian Mithra

Julian née Sara Mithra hovers between genre and gender, border mongering and mongreling. At local festivals, they exhibit handmade chapbooks and cut-up zines. Read their words on paper in Versal 12, Milvia Street, Storm Cellar, ANXY, Written on the Body, and The Other Side of Violet and on a screen at pnkprl, Gendertrash Café, and PoetryFilmKanal. They received the Prospero Prize from Fathom Books in 2017. Find unsettling recitations on Soundcloud and watch soft-focus, collage poem videos on Vimeo. Their first chapbook,

If the Color is Fugitive, is due out from Nomadic Press this fall.

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