For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Che Gossett is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and the 2019-20 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Their work is at the nexus of black studies, aesthetics and politics, queer theory and trans studies.
On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place. Male inhabitants don an animal-like...