t.r. san
• about
• publications
• translations
• projects
• other neocities :)
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2026
minor literature[s]
“test (the only one)" + ““i" is ocean / blindfolded edge"
Burial Magazine
“motel psychosis"
KEEP PLANNING
“the allegory of painting"
Some Words
“haunt me"
X-R-A-Y
“Natural Born Killers" + “Erotes, Push-Pulls, Transactions, Economies"
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“cracked nutshell" (forthcoming)
2025
The Offing
“false revelation"
HAD
“& so there must be"
Smokelong Quarterly
“Boys" 🎧
• Interview
w/ Kelly Pedro
ANMLY
“we used to be runaways in an abandoned airport" + “sex memoir abecedarian" 🎧
Michigan City Review of Books
“saw an angel kick a snail"
BRUISER
"Fixation"
South Florida Poetry Journal
“no lights, camera"🎧
The Cincinnati Review
“Abecedarian Failing the Bildungsroman Formula" (archived
) + “Audiophile Claustrophobe Abecedarian on a Road Trip"(archived
)
& here to see select older work :)
t.r. san
rakhine-“burmese "lesbian poet-writer;
2024 Best of the Net in Poetry
;
2026 Best of the Net in Poetry nominee
;
fixations: body, language, forms, gaze;
at work on malfunction, machine;
now on gadigal land
against the anglolyric's contriving of/for “revelations"
; against language unchallenged as is; against syntactic determination of what is ontologized to & of the (poetic) body; against indulgence in sentiment; against “representation"; for interrogation of the naturalized; for radical expansion work on semiotic possibiities; for mathematical symbols; for a felt coldness; for situating sentiment; for fucking grammar, invert-rendering
an incomplete list of influences: qiu miaojin, djuna barnes, renee gladman, ava hofmann, carrie lorig, helen oyeyemi, [sarah] Cavar, k-ming chang, aung cheimt, jos charles, layli long soldier, greer lankton, alice notley, georges bataille, douglas kearney, ...
♡ discussing/ writing on/ reading about: trans +// lesbian subject formations & desire negotiations, 2000s-2010s alt j-rock, shoujosei anime & manga (esp. grounded josei human dramas and the year 24 group), yuri, materialist transfeminism/s, queer epistolary art, the modernist novel, the contemporary burmese novel + its slow evolution away from khit-san nationalist ethos & khit-por occidentalist pastiche, translation in practice, translation in theory, dolls, robots, ...
i stand & act against the neocolonial zionist & burmanization projects
my name/pseudonym is not, as many surprisingly seem to think, an anagram of “trans"
& lately,
my favorite musicians are backxwash & ptite soeur & yikii & teaadora. i love revolutionary girl utena
& nanae haruno's double house
& nananan kiriko manga & ikoku nikki
& chainsaw man
. my favorite movie is funeral parade of roses
(1969) dir. toshio matsumoto. i love my friends' art. i love when friends & lovers make art together or in interdependent practice of respective crafts, which is to say i buy into the new york school hype & am more than happy to collaborate on projects if we know each other ♡ i'm working on my debut collection with/about robotgirls
i'm also poetry editor of sabr tooth tiger magazine currently
please note that i am occasionally inactive & irresponsive, but i appreciate any & all correspondence with fellow readers & writers. e-mail is the best way to reach me, always ♡
projects
CONTENERE
(2026)
a hybrid novella co-written with my friend frenchie
; deconstructing The Girl & The Doll; lie of difference + truth in likeness & rhyme of all forms, emergent from the same flesh & of equal ontological weight; embodiment as & via craft; magical drive of desire; weird lonely little girls; complications of gender for weird lonely lesbians
2025
(2025)
stitched together a section each from every piece i put out in 2025, with own footage, soundtracked by jamison bleached waters' “e: please come home"
select works (optimized for desktop viewing)
2026
Hayden's Ferry Review
“beach homing timefishers" [forthcoming]
bur-eng translation of Min Chit Paing's အချိန်မျှားသူတွေနေတဲ့ကမ်းခြေ
selected older works
JAKE
a playlist cento
Beaver Magazine
“summer is coming soon & i will get a lot better"
The Dawn Review
“barber on [] island"
• Anthologization in Best of the Net 2024
Bending Genres
“matrilineality in walls | scalp [|] disorders"
Cobra Milk Magazine
“Sour Grilled Home for Dinner"
beestung magazine
“introduction to t.r. san’s self &/or body &/or craft &/or hypocrisy"
New Note Poetry
“self-portrait at nine in the morning reading letters my mirror sends me"[Page 6]
Angel Rust Magazine
“When We Slur Our Own Waters"
Corporeal Magazine
3 Poems
fifth wheel press
“collapse"(reprint)
ZVONA i NARI
“i shut my thumb between the sash & sill of a window"
Major 7th Magazine
“This House"
Erato Magazine
“Thuzar's Door"