These Indiana Winters
Queerness, family, magic and Indiana weather combine in These Indiana Winters, B. T. Roen’s debut chapbook. Their imagination skips across Seussian animals, fantastical characters, and the struggles of being a queer pastor’s kid in the Midwest. Roen’s wit and wonder reveals a spark of magic hidden in the everyday.
Roen chronicles their growing-up years and coming out journey in this little poetic adventure. The speaker has a jumping contest with Jack Frost (they lose), find their gender paralleled in the natural world, and finally turn from the turbulence of self-discovery to comfort their younger self.​
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Available in paperback and print.
Cover art by B. T. Roen via Canva Pro
POETRY
Read My Work
"Safe Snacks"
Published in Anodyne Magazine Volume 2
"Arsenic and Axe Throwing"
Published in Clinch Issue 4
"Dementia" (also titled "Silent Memory Castle")
CW: dementia, smoking
Published in The Bell Tower, 2022.
"Fiction Jam"
Genres of all types crash in the speaker's imagination, causing some crazy mix-ups.
Published in The Bell Tower, 2022.
"Bavaria, the birthplace of yodeling"
Lies For Children - NonBinary Review Issue #34
Published by Zoetic Press. Order the book here.
"Gender Dysphoria is Like Charybdis," "Call Time"
Do Not Tap On The Glass - Anthology 5
Published by Beyond the Veil Press. Order the book here.
"Being Non-Binary is Like Multiclassing Across Genders, Chapter 1: Character Sheet,"
"Being Non-Binary is Boxed Like Schrodinger’s Gender,"
"Being Non-Binary is Like Being at the Triple Point of Water,"
"Being Non-Binary is Like Being the Book in a Book Club,"
"Being Non-Binary is Like a Gender Re-Reveal Party"
Not Ghosts, But Spirits - Volume I
Published by Querencia Press. Order the book here.
"The Power Of Playing A Living Dream,"
"Leave A Message, or, a Peaceful Protest Gone Badly"
Is Leaving The Opposite Of Haunting? - Issue #3
Published by Trash Wonderland. Read the book here.