Beep beep! Come celebrate the last stop on the COUPLETS  book tour with readings from four NYC poets: Kay Gabriel, Elisa Gonzalez, Kyle Carrero Lopez, and Maggie Millner. Come for the sonnets, stay for the quips. No, wait—come for the outfits, stay for the rhymes. Or come for the horny verse, stay for the horny vers! Whatever you want, babe. Just come . . . and then stay.

Millner’s Couplets, Gabriel’s A Queen in Bucks County, and Lopez’s Muscle Memory  will all be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these titles, please email us at contact@bgsqd.com.

Both Millner’s and Gabriel’s books are also available on our online store:

 
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.

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS. She’s also the author of the poetry collections KISSING OTHER PEOPLE OR THE HOUSE OF FAME and A QUEEN IN BUCKS COUNTY.

Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, an essayist, and a fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker and elsewhere. She is the author of GRAND TOUR, forthcoming from FSG in 2023, and the recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.

Kyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey and is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. Among other subjects, his work centers power, social life, and Afro-Cuban histories.

Maggie Millner is the author of COUPLETS. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.