BGSQDSpeaking OUT –Open Mic story telling and experience sharing Join the photographer/author Rachelle Lee Smith, co-host Sam LaRoche, and subjects from the new book Speaking OUT: Queer…
Three local speculative fiction writers-- Richard Bowes, Robert Levy, and Sam J. Miller-- read stories of the weird, the queer, and the otherworldly. Richard Bowes is nominated…
Walter Frank will examine the history of the modern gay rights movement in the United States and will also discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case on same…
Photograph by Francesca G Bewer Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and…
Two expatriate poets who have lived in New York long enough to consider themselves New Yorkers read their recent work. Jee Leong Koh is the author of four…
Austin Alexis, Charlie Bondhus, Dean Kostos, & Lynn McGee read from their recent books. Austin Alexis is the author of one full-length collection: Privacy Issues, published…
Author Wayne Hoffman reads from his steamy and comic debut novel, HARD, newly republished this month by Bear Bones Books. HARD follows a group of young AIDS…
Join us for a reading celebrating the long-awaited publication of Mark Doty’s new book of poems, Deep Lane (W. W. Norton). Gerald Stern says, “Mark Doty writes with absolute exactitude,…
Chris Freeman, Christopher Bram, Bill Goldstein, David Drake, and other special guests will read their favorite passages from the work of Christopher Isherwood, and there will be a…
This reading brings together five poets from Chicago and the Midwest who currently find themselves in New York. Readers include Cortney Lamar Charleston, H. Melt, Angel Nafis, José Olivarez,…
