08/26/2026
Congrats to Cai Sherley ( Cai Sherley ) on their forthcoming chapbook, Out of Yearning published by Sibling Rivalry Press (Sibling Rivalry Press ) !!! 🖤💐🖤
Pre-Order Available Now.
In OUT OF YEARNING, Black trans poet Cai Sherley transforms yearning into revelation. These luminous poems navigate gender transition, Black ancestry, family, music, grief, and ecstatic self-discovery through forms as inventive as their vision. By turns intimate and celebratory, Sherley’s work refuses shame in favor of embodiment, tenderness, and the powerful act of claiming the body as one’s own. A stunning debut, Out of Yearning marks the arrival of a vital new voice in contemporary American poetry, one we believe will help carry the art form into its future.
📸: Cover art of Out of Yearning | second slide author headshot of Cai Sherley and their bio .
CAI SHERLEY (he/him) is a Black trans poet-educator with
roots in Boston, Massachusetts. A two-time Pushcart Prize
nominee, his work can be found in Beestung, Best New Poets,
swamp pink, Peach Mag, and Tupelo, among others, as well
as the anthology I Feel Nothing Like Good: Poets Against
Genocide. He has found homes at The Watering Hole, Brooklyn
Poets, Tin House, Lambda, and the Chicago Poetry Center,
and is a member of both the Crossroads Writers Collective
and Trans Corner Poets. His work centers Black trans life,
past and present, in the United States. He received an MFA in
Creative Writing from NYU and lives in Western Massachusetts.
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