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September 2019
Tantra, Mysticism and Magical Poetry: Nisha Ramayya’s States of the Body Produced by Love book launch, with Bhanu Kapil, Caspar Heinemann and Francesca Lisette
Join us for a special evening at Treadwell’s to celebrate the publication of States of the Body Produced by Love by Nisha Ramayya. Nisha is joined by poets Bhanu Kapil, Caspar Heinemann and Francesca Lisette for readings from their work engaging with the occult, gender and desire. Nisha will then present a talk on tantric poetics, inviting listeners to explore poetry’s correspondences with magic, mysticism and tantra and its relation to weaving, myth and ritual. Followed by drinks, mingling and book signings. Advance…
Find out more »Aditi Machado & Geoffrey G. O’Brien @ 100 Boots Poetry Series
This series presents readings by a range of emerging, mid-career, and established poets from St. Louis and across the United States.
Find out more »Nightboat Books @ Brooklyn Book Festival
Come see us at the Brooklyn Book Festival! September 16th - September 23rd.
Find out more »Marwa Helal at the 2019 Brooklyn Book Festival
- The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s Day and a celebratory Festival Day with more than 300 authors plus 250 booksellers filling a vibrant outdoor Literary Marketplace. Poetry at the Crossroads “One ever feels his two-ness… two souls, two thoughts,…
Find out more »Book Launch: TIME by Etel Adnan, trans. Sarah Riggs
Join us for the Brooklyn launch event for TIME by Etel Adnan, translated by Sarah Riggs. We will hear from this fabulous group of readers who will read from TIME alongside original work: Mirene Arsanios, Alexandra Egan, Rami Karim, Alisha Mascarenhas, Sarah Riggs & Nicole Wallace
Find out more »We Both Laughed in Pleasure: Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan Launch @ BAMPFA
Join artists Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma in a celebration of queer ancestor Lou Sullivan—arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition—featuring readings from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan.
Find out more »Cruisin’ with Lou in the Bay @ 34 Trinity
Come celebrate the release of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan at 34 Trinity with Bay Area + New York darlings, plus a Lou quote painted on the storefront windows.
Find out more »October 2019
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan Launch @ The Kitchen
To celebrate the book’s launch, this event brings together the volume’s editors, Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma; Susan Stryker, who wrote the Introduction; a group of trans artists and activists, including Kay Gabriel, Che Gossett, Mars Hobrecker, and TC Tolbert; and writer Wayne Koestenbaum for readings and conversation.
Find out more »Book Launch for Personal Volcano by Laura Moriarty
Book Launch event for Personal Volcano by Laura Moriarty featuring the author & E. Tracy Grinnell
Find out more »November 2019
Living Gallery: Rosamond S. King presents ALL THE RAGE
Rosamond S. King is an award-winning creative and critical writer and performer who draws on reality to create non-literal, culturally and politically engaged interpretations of African diaspora experiences. She will give a performative reading from her collection-in-progress, All the Rage. Her goal is to make people feel, wonder, and think, usually in that order. Living Gallery, a monthly program curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa and produced in the Gibney Gallery, presents live performance of storytelling, monologues, spoken word, stand-up, or creative…
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