Poetry Reading featuring Kevin McLellan, Ed Madden, and Jayson P. Smith, with introductions by Michael Broder.

Copies of Kevin McLellan’s in other words you/ (The Word Works, 2023, paperback, $18) and Ed Madden’s A Pooka in Arkansas (The Word Works, 2023, paperback, $19) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of either book, 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.

KEVIN MCLELLAN is the author of: in other words you/ (selected by Timothy Liu for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection), Hemispheres, Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient), [box] (in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections), Tributary, and Round Trip. Kevin makes videos under the name, Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. His video Dick won Best Short Form Short Film at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival. It also showed in the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Tag! Queer Film Festival, the Berlin Short Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. https://kevmclellan.com/

ED MADDEN is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry, most recently Ark, a book about his father’s last months in hospice care, and So they can sing, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. He is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches Irish literature, queer studies, and creative writing. Ed served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil.

Jayson P. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and curator from the Bronx. Their work has received support from NYFA, The Poetry Project, Poetry Foundation, and Callaloo, among others. Recent performances include Center for Performance Research, Miriam Gallery, and The Guggenheim. In 2016, Jayson founded and continues to host NOMAD Readings. Find them in Brooklyn—listening—or at www.jaysonpsmith.com.