Please join Professor Herman’s talk on “A Cut-Up of the Queer Body: Dismembered Gender in Poetry and Poetics” at 2-4pm on Thursday, December 6 at NL 314. Dr. Joseph Donica from the English department will be moderator

Aimee Herman is a queer performance artist, poet, and writing/literature teacher at Bronx Community College. Aimee has two full-length books of poetry including meant to wake up feeling (great weather for MEDIA) and to go without blinking​ (BlazeVOX books), and has had poems featured in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, ​Trans Bodies Trans Selves (Oxford University Press) and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat books). Aimee has presented a range of creative and critically engaging workshops on various LGBTQ+ topics such as “Queerying the Classroom: Necessary Curriculum Creating Space for Queer and Gender Non-Conforming Students​.” ​Currently, Aimee facilitates a weekly creative writing workshop at the Brooklyn Public library and sings/plays ukelele in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox.