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Forthcoming November 04, 2025.
When does violence get stitched in the skin? What forces make prey of femme bodies? Hailey M. Tran dissects patriarchal culture inside and out, digging their hands into the messy insides of gendered violences.
Tran’s chapbook, an everyday occurrence, is raw and biting. Layered with conversations on the intersections of gender, and race, Tran reflects on existing in a femme body with wit and sharp honesty. These poems break the body down from varying voices—the media, the corporate environment, social scenes, and cultural spaces. an everyday occurrence is an autopsy of the systems that perpetuate violence against women and femmes, from objectification to the continued harassment and assault of femme bodies.
Praise for Hailey Tran
Hailey Tran is both wordsmith and magician. With language that transcends bravery, birthright, and bite, an everyday occurrence is a guidebook of survival for daughters who crave the blood of resilience.
– Princess Moon, author of The Genocide’s Love Baby Learns to Sing
In an incandescent chapbook, Hailey Tran spins intimate histories of the body into songs of revolt, reckoning, and survival. Fully-fanged and unflinching, the poems in an everyday occurrence land like an old friend disclosing a lethal secret, in which truth “dissipates the weight of lonely.” Threading quotidian, capitalist, and contradictory violences, Tran reanimates us toward a tomorrow where “not all that dies will stay dead.”
– Chrysanthemum, poet and performance artist
“The eldest daughter is the blade that slices the night sky open / So the sun can lunge forth.” Wielding that blade, made of well-crafted verse and intentional imagery, Tran illuminates the earth and its viscera. These poems don’t shy away from the violence of being alive–instead, they remind the reader of their creature-body, all its aches and deaths and victories. What I appreciated most about this collection was its frankness, the honesty one living ghost gives to another. I’m grateful for these poems and the poet who wrote them. If you’re craving connection with someone who gets it, pick up this book.
– Bianca Phipps, author of Crown Noble and White River Happiness
About Hailey M. Tran
Hailey M. Tran is a DC-based and Lowell-raised dreamer. They are a queer Asian American Latina spoken word and performance poet, who believes in the transformative power of storytelling and art. Hailey has their BA in Political Science… MORE
