Maura M. Modeya is a poet, performer, and professor from Bemidji, MN. She’s the author of Only Interested in Everything, a poetry chapbook published by Meekling Press. Before heading west, she lived in Chicago where she focused on live performance, and producing oddity and storytelling shows. Their work interests include delirium, sapphic ritual, eco-dykedom, the poetics of disruption, and public visual disruption through wheat pasting, stickering, spray painting, and other DIY modes. Beyond the page, she has curated poetry wheat paste installations of her own work as well as local community poetic collaborations as an act of street publication. They hold an MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, CO where they currently teach.
Find her on insta @down2theponywire or at her monthly queer poetry open mics typically held at Town Hall Collaborative. ︎
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to think there are high school boyfriends who
have daughters & love Trump love to fantasize about a future
generation meanwhile I’m on FaceTime with a friend who’s try
-ing on new underwear giving my opinion on which ones will
look best for their body painting party [I pick the ones
that match their pasties] [I want the
present to give me u t o p i a]
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let me critique the dominant order of reproduction
I’m 30 ! unwed ! I’m the eyesore of all hockey towns !
I’ve tried so hard to be a donkey with a purpose
but the urgent drive to reproduce ? I don’t have it .
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we buy bed frames to sleep closer to heaven
I come in hundreds lick the wall of tomorrow while holding
the throat of the future I want you in bring you a honey latte
in bed while you’re still sleepy
[when actually is a year from now ?]
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