African Venus by Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (bronze, 1851)
This week we welcome Cleis Abeni (first name pronounced like "dice") as our guest author. Cleis is the transgender issues correspondent for The Advocate. A Pushcart prize-winning poet with prose and poems in publications like the Fence, Prick of the Spindle, Ploughshares, Baltimore Alternative and the Philadelphia City Paper, Cleis is a longtime Buddhist dedicated to harm-reduction and compassionate living. For more information, visit www.cleisabeni.com.
Welcome, Cleis
— sdh