Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Kayleb Rae Candrilli is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a PEW fellowship, and of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. They are the author of Winter of Worship, Water I Won’t Touch, All the Gay Saints, and What Runs Over. Candrilli's work is published in POETRY, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and others. They live in Philadelphia with their partner.
Awarded Grants
2017
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Kayleb will write a full-length collection of poems in response to the paintings of Hernan Bas, a queer Detroit-based artist, that focuses on queer and trans joy. Bas exclusively paints slim male bodies at the mercy of brackish, hectic landscapes. Kayleb aims to critique such hegemonic portrayals that perpetuate body shaming in the gay community, write through Bas' images as a way to explore their own trans/male identity, and celebrate trans bodies within the practice of poetry.
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