Canese Jarboe is a nonbinary trans poet, essayist, and visual artist. They are a PhD candidate and AOP Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a 2022 Nō Studios Artist Grant recipient. Their research is focused on queer poetics, rural poetics, and the trajectories of docupoetic techniques.
Canese's most recent project is a collection of poems incorporating oral and visual histories of gay rodeo in the United States. They received their MFA in poetry from University of Idaho, and their BA in English and creative writing from Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Canese is the author of the chapbook dark acre (Willow Springs, 2018). Their poems have appeared in POETRY, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, Indiana Review, Willow Springs, and DIAGRAM, among other venues. Canese has worked on the editorial staff of publications such as Cream City Review, Boulevard, River Styx, and Fugue. Previously, Canese worked as a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University where they were also a dual enrollment instructor at local high schools and an educator in the Upward Bound program.
Originally from rural southeastern Kansas, Canese now lives in Kansas City, Missouri.