A book party like no other, unpacking the pleasures and pain of working in the city. Kicking off NYPL’s World Literature Festival, join poets Camonghe Felix, Dorothea Lasky, Emanuel Xavier, and moderator Helena de Groot for readings and lively discussion about poetry, language, and labor. From day to day labor to the work of writing, this conversation explores the way poetry…
The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Mary Burns, Wo Chan, Stephen Greco, Cheryl Head, Bill Konigsberg, Tim Stobierski, Kathleen Warnock, and Jerry L. Wheeler. Join us as in-person or watch the live-stream (see below) to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices. This event will take place in person at the Bureau…
Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Dale Corvino and for a reading of Bonds and Boundaries, Corvino's new collection of short stories. This event is free and open to the public. Update 3/12/24: Cesar Padilla, originally scheduled to join Corvino in discussing his work editing I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear, is no longer able to attend.…
The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the LGBTQ+ community. It was also formed to bring the LGBTQ+ literary community together to celebrate the…
Dave Gaddy, author of The Simple Magic of Wild Things: The Journey of a Southern Male Wytch, will present his class on using ancestral magick to work through trauma at the 2024 Sacred Source Conference in Towson, Maryland.