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Ty Raso

Ty Raso (she/they) is a trans poet, essayist, and teacher. Her work is featured or forthcoming in POETRY, The Adroit Journal, Electric Literature, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Salt Hill Journal, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. She’s currently in residence as a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and she is the author of the collection MIRROR WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A CHILD (Noemi Press, 2027).

Poems, Poetry, Rumpus Originals

Ty Raso

Apr 9, 2026

National Poetry Month: “WHEN PRAYER DIDN’T AWAY THE GAY, MY DAD TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY DOOM ON THE FAMILY COMPUTER [Golden Shovel]”

I have this dream where I am the last person alive on a two- dimensional earth, my body 3D like a fruit, and start- ing to inside-out itself, until my gut is a skirt and my DOOM- sense is like…

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Ty Raso

National Poetry Month: “WHEN PRAYER DIDN’T AWAY THE GAY, MY DAD TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY DOOM ON THE FAMILY COMPUTER [Golden Shovel]”