BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
BGSQD
Queer poets, E Kerr (they/he) and Billie R. Tadros (she/they), document their own lived experiences with identity, embodiment, and gender, through both traditional and experimental poetic forms. Kayleb Rae Candrilli has said that the “tenderness” of Kerr’s debut collection trans [re]incarnation “is in lineage with a growing chorus of trans voices, voices that demand space, safety, and softness,” and Katie Manning says that the poems in Tadros’s most recent collection Graft Fixation “interrogate our understanding of bodies, especially women’s bodies, through collisions of language and form.” Join these poets for an afternoon of readings that queer and query the body.
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 to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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
Elias Kerr is a Transmasculine poet, who writes under the pen name E Kerr. They graduated from the University of Scranton in 2023, with a masters degree in occupational therapy, and double minors in English and writing. They are the recipient of the inaugural 2022 Stemmler/Dennis LGBT& Award. Their work has been featured in various publications, including Rappahannock Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and the Hollins Critic and their debut collection, trans [re]incarnation, was released in April, 2023, with Mason Jar Press. Kerr lives and writes in Scranton, PA, with their cat, Nola.
Billie R. Tadros is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Theatre at The University of Scranton, where she also teaches in the Women’s & Gender Studies program and directs the concentration in Health Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her M.F.A. in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and she is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. She is the author of three books of poems, Graft Fixation (Gold Wake Press, 2020), Was Body (Indolent Books, 2020), and The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018).