Join queer poets janan alexandra (she/her) and Emma Wynn (they/them) for a joint reading and the NYC book launch of Emma’s first full-length collection, The World is Our Anchor. The event will consist of readings, a Q&A, and book signing.

Copies of The World Is Our Anchor (Futurecycle Press, 2023, paperback, $15.95) are available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.

All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd.

janan alexandra was born in Nicosia, Cyprus to a Lebanese mother and an American father. She received her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. A 2021-2022 Creative Research Fulbright Scholar, janan currently teaches English at the Hotchkiss School in CT. You can find her work in Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Mizna, Muzzle, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere.

Emma Wynn received their MTS from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy, Religious Studies, Psychology, and LGBTQI+ U.S. History at the Hotchkiss School in CT. They have been published in a variety of online and print journals and nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. Their first book, The World is Our Anchor, was published in February by FutureCycle Press.