Join author Drew Pisarra for the launch of Periodic Boyfriends, his new poetry collection inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements and his personal catalog of one- night-stands. A discussion between the author and Capturing Fire Publisher and Nuyorican Poets Café Slam Legend Regie Cabico will follow the reading.

Copies of Periodic Boyfriends ($20) will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve Periodic Boyfriends”  in the subject line.

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.

Drew Pisarra is a grantee of Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, and LMCC as well as the author of the poetry collections Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019) [lauded as “brazen and lusty and often amusing” by The Washington Post] and the short story collections You’re Pretty Gay (2021) [excerpted by Ms. magazine] and Publick Spanking (1996).

Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taken top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. TV credits include TEDx, two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and NPR’s Snap Judgement. His new collection of poetry, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex will be released Sep. 2023 by Day Eight Press. He is the publisher/producer of Capturing Fire Press and resides in DC.