C’mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’s hormonal transition, stretching the upper limits of homophonic translation to unleash the unexpected queer resonances of Louis Zukofsky’s “A.” E alchemizes mishearing into a political possibility of glitching, noncompliance, and protest. Not a translation, but maximally trans, mishearing transmutes language to generate new possibilities: how hormones change the body; how relationships evolve, multiply, and implode over time.

E is for epic! A sublime young voice is offered up in the work of Noa Micaela Fields. It’s as if Gertrude Stein had a hot buttery threegy with W.H. Auden and Wallace Stevens as Ronald Firbank watched, taking notes and finger banging himself. I’m expecting grand things from this raw, new talent. – Vaginal Davis