Monica McClure, S. Galvin and Alexandrine Ogundimu read poetry and prose from recent years of life on Earth. Galvin and Ogundimu are also celebrating their recent moves to Brooklyn from Seattle and Chicago, respectively.

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 on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

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.

* Monica McClure is a writer and performer based in New York. She is the author of Tender Data (Birds LLC, 2015) and chapbooks Mala (Poor Claudia, 2014) and Mood Swing (Snacks Press, 2013).

Her poetry and critical writing can be found in Tin House, The Claudius App, Jubilat, Lambda Literary Review Spotlight Series, Emily Books, The Hairpin, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Spork Press, The Los Angeles Review, Intercourse Magazine, The Lit Review, and CultureStrike / The Margins.

McClure is a poetry and fiction editor for The Atlas Review. In 2014, she was chosen by Dorothea Lasky as the Summer Literary Seminar contest winner for Poetry. She has performed at Cage Gallery, Pioneer Works, Dixon Place Theatre, The Silent Barn, and &Now 2015.

* Sarah Galvin is a poet and essayist from Seattle who moved to Brooklyn a mere three months ago. They are the author of The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia) The Best Party of Our Lives (Sasquatch) and Ugly Time (Gramma Poetry) now to be found in Black Ocean’s catalogue. Galvin has recently completed a yet-unnamed manuscript which they will be reading from at this event.

Galvin is a contributor to The Stranger, The Guardian, and Vice Magazine. Their poems have appeared in Anarchist Review of Books, WIDMA, The American Poetry Society, New Ohio Review, Pinwheel, and io.

They are the author of a series of reviews of food found on the ground called The Pedestretarian. Galvin was nominated for a James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award and considered for what would have been Washington State’s first Radio Flyer Wagon DUI.

*Alexandrine Ogundimu is a writer from New Jersey and Indiana. She lives in the zeitgeist.