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]






&

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  







                    &

                   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 ?]