[Reading] Rosie Stockton and Hannah Baer

We are excited to welcome you for an evening of readings by poets Rosie Stockton (US), author of Fuel and Permanent Volta, and Hannah Baer (US) author of trans girl suicide museum.

"Rosie Stockton chisels the surface of the poems smooth; no slivers, no splinters snag the addictive glide of thought and breath toward the horror of acceptance. Stockton’s masterpiece reveals how everything is endlessly new, especially the old, old, oldest of it all. This book transfigures our acceptance of the end to an inexplicable force of love." —CAConrad

"When I first read trans girl suicide museum, I felt like maybe it was this hyper-cube-as-book of my dreams: twisted, shimmering, demented, and messy; but forgiving, hopeful, and saturated with meaning and feeling in the way I imagine hyper-life might be. I wish an anonymous messenger had left tgsm on my pillow when I was 16, so I could have envisioned another sort of life for myself, as a gendered being, a political subject, and a friend." —Cyrus Grace Dunham

Schedule
19:00 Readings by Rosie and Hannah
20:00 Conversation between authors 

Find Fuel here: https://rile.space/books/fuel
Find trans girl suicide museum here: https://rile.space/books/trans-girl-suicide-museum

About Fuel
The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, Stockton’s poems articulate the blurry modes of extraction, fantasy, loss, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environmental and personal collapse. Between gas station gifts, Venmo requests, and nocturnal love letters, Fuel unravels the self and violent systems of domination, longing for a togetherness that transcends its own ending.

About trans girl suicide museum
Drawing its source material from chance encounters, wordless interactions in basements or bathrooms or hotel rooms, to archives of 20th century critical theory, sleepover secrets exchanged between old friends, rhetorical barbs deployed in the classrooms of elite universities, arguments on the phone with your parents across timezones, the nonverbal codes of high and low fashion, and scribbled notes on the backs of receipts for medicines you don't know how they work, TGSM is a morbid yet strangely hopeful meditation on the possibilities and meanings of gender variation in our time.

About the authors

Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025) and Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the California Book Awards in Poetry. They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. Rosie lives and works in Los Angeles.

Hannah Baer is a writer and therapist based in New York. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Artforum, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum.