H. Melt

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H. Melt is a poet, artist and educator whose work celebrates trans people, history and culture. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. H. Melt was an artist in residence at the Newberry Library, researching the Chicago Protest Collection.

They’ve attended the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat and the Tin House Writers Workshop. Their latest collection, There Are Trans People Here, includes a study guide for trans youth, educators, and artists, available for free online through their publisher Haymarket Books. Source 

I Don't Want a Trans President

I want trans doctors 

performing my surgery 

trans journalists reporting 

the news, trans historians writing 

textbooks. I don’t want trans capitalists 

walking on wall street or trans cops 

patrolling my neighborhood. I want 

trans musicians playing on my stereo 

trans designers crafting my clothes

trans chefs filling my stomach

trans farmers planting my food 

& trans gardeners picking 

flowers for my funeral.

Published:

2021

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

LGBTQ+ Experience

Politics

Literary Devices:

Anaphora

a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences

Juxtaposition

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect