thepoetmiranda Reads Poems Live - Queer Open Stage 5/20/2025
thepoetmiranda reads six original poems: "On Eating Fire," "On Straitjackets," "On Ingesting Poison," "On Sword-Swallowing," "On Biting," and "On Rope Ties"
Intro
Yesterday evening, my friend Eme (psst, she started a Substack for her writing here) and I went to a local monthly queer open stage and read some poems. I read the two poems that I posted here last Thursday, “On Rope Ties” and “On Straitjackets,” as well as four more poems from the same Houdini-inspired series.
Over the next week or two, I’ll post each of the poems I read with full intros and good audio quality readings. I hope you can hear me clearly throughout my video from last night’s reading. Let me know what you think of the poems.
Love y’all!
💜Miranda📚
My Reading
How You Can Support thepoetmiranda
Thank you for listening to these poems.
Would you like to see these and their companion poems in print? Soon, I’ll be selling prints of individual poems, so watch for my announcement on that development. At some point this year, I’d like to publish both my book manuscripts. I’ll most likely self-publish them, but if you’re a publisher and like what you see, we can discuss that further. Poems I’ve shared so far can be found here:
Right now, the best ways to support my poetry and memoir writing projects are to subscribe here on Substack (free or paid), subscribe on YouTube, and/or to donate at ko-fi.com/thepoetmiranda or via CashApp $thepoetmiranda. It all helps. Thank you!
The memoir I mentioned? It’s called They Will Keep on Speaking Her Name and is about my life as a transgender woman:
Brava !!!