“The reality of art is the reality of the imagination. The charge laid on artists is bring back visions.” -Jeanette Winterson Co-led by poets Julie Marie Wade & Maureen Seaton, “QUEER DEPOT 101: CREATIVITY & QUEERNESS”, the first in a series of literary salons produced by Reading Queer, explored queerness…
Workshop: “In Defense of Forgetting” with Connie Mae Oliver
MAY 10th & 11th, 12 pm – 2 pm @ The Bakehouse Art Complex. “IN DEFENSE OF FORGETTING” with Connie Mae Oliver is a 2-day workshop that will motivate writers to interpret and decode the expectations of preservationist traditions, via poetry exercises conducted in a workshop setting. The workshop will…
Reading Queer announces the Reading Queer Writing Academy 2014
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make…
Reading Queer participates in LitCrawl Miami with “Eros Erased, Eros Collaged”
The famous San Francisco-born literature and pub crawl series comes to Miami for the first time during the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Combining two things (alcohol + literature) that everyone loves, LitCrawl is a mad-cap, “choose-your-own-adventure” evening of literary events that winds its way through South Beach’s bar scenes. Reading…