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An Erasure of Senate Bill 111

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Moncho Alvarado

Copyright © 2026 by Moncho Alvarado. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 16, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

Moncho Alvarado
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Moncho Alvarado is a transgender poet and the author of Greyhound Americans (Saturnalia Books, 2022).
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“My new collection of poems are healing poems [due] to the more than five hundred anti-trans bills that have been introduced to erase our bodies, our lives, and our freedoms with such hate. I hope [that,] with these poems, I transform the bills into spaces of reclamation, of hope, of taking our lives, bodies, our freedoms, and to give [us light] during these times.”
—Momo Alvarado

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