Moment of Change: do you know of any poems...?

As many of you know, I'm editing The Moment of Change, a reprint anthology of feminist speculative poetry, for Aqueduct press. I'm almost there. Very very close. The last biggish batch of acceptances/rejections went out yesterday; I am still pondering a few poems, and hope to send out final emails this week.

And now a question to the community. I've found an acquired poems featuring a variety of perspectives, but one thing I am still missing in the anthology is trans, genderqueer and/or gender-change themed work.  I am looking for poems with such content (this is not limited to poets who identify as trans or genderqueer, although of course I would love to receive work from trans and/or genderqueer-identified poets ).

Please recommend specific poems, rather than poets; I don't have the spoons or the means to go through the whole oevre of poets who are new to me. I'd rather not receive comments like "X is a major literary poet, maybe ask him/her..." because from my experience working on this and other projects, major literary poets tend to ignore my emails. I am hoping that if I specify a particular poem and go through the major figure's literary agent it might work.

To summarize, looking for:

- a poem or poems with trans, gender-change, genderqueer content 
- speculative, that is, featuring a fantastic element; SF, fantasy, magic realism, slipstream, horror, surrealism, weird and other spec genres are all fine.
- both the trans and/or genderqueer content and the speculative element should be on the page, rather than implicit. Minimal reference is fine, but it should be there.
- feminist (no queer-bashing or name-calling please) - poetry should be previously published elsewhere - this is a reprint anthology.

Thank you very much :) and yes, feel free to spread the word if so moved...

(Edited to change some ambiguous wording; I've slept for 3 hrs tonight due to pain, so if something else jumps out at you as badly phrased/inappropriate, please call me on it.)
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Published on August 29, 2011 08:38
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