“Desire Machine,” the 2nd installment of Threshold, a queer/trans poetic-performance art series co-organized by Cass & Martha Ryan, will be hosted at Common Objects on July 12th, 2025.

Cass Garison is a poet & artist with an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. Their first chapbook, "Beauty Exasperated," is available through Common Meter Press. They were a 2023-2024 Hugo House Fellow and have work published at Poets.org, in Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review, Foglifter, & others. 

Cass hosts an annual retreat for poets and artists working in all mediums alongside sullivan forderhase. They also organize Threshold, a hybridized trans- & queer-centered poetic-performance art series alongside Martha Ryan.

They were a part of the Pennsylvania Public Poetry Project in 2019. They have attended Writing Workshops in Greece, the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, and the Winter Tangerine Writing Workshop. They received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Joan Grayston Award from UW Seattle.

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