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Queer poets connected to the South and to the Midwest prairie host a roundtable reading of their ecopoetic work, drawing on the storied history of queer and trans naturalist poets. From asexual and transgender plant species, to cruising spots, from the way fire opens seedpods to the way desire opens us to landscape—these poets trace how queerness and the land teach each other. What blooms in the margins? What thrives through transformation? How do our bodies learn from prairie persistence, from wetland regeneration, from species that refuse singular forms? Rooted in specific Southern and prairie ecosystems yet reaching toward broader networks of queer and trans ecological kinship, this reading celebrates attention that won't look away: the erotic life of rivers, the political dimensions of restoration, the futures we're composting together. Come hear poems that know the land as lover, teacher, co-conspirator in making worlds where we all might flourish.