Poetry is having a moment in Miami. “Paris is Still Burning”, an energetic poetry reading and performance showcased contemporary LGBT poets of color this week. Four artists, known for their work exploring social, racial and economic justice, were handpicked to read and perform at an event held by the…
By Jennifer McCauley On Wednesday November 18th, Reading Queer kicked off its second festival with the acclaimed event “Paris is Still Burning,” held at the Olympia Theater. Eight months earlier, in an off-site gallery at AWP 2015, writer Patricia Smith hosted a reading that paid tribute to the iconic “Paris…
Reading Queer & Miami Book Fair co-presented PARIS IS STILL BURNING with David Tomas Martinez, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and Danez Smith In The Lobby Lounge at the iconic Olympia Theater. Wednesday, November 18th @ 6:30 pm. Inspired by the legendary documentary film “Paris is Burning” and the queer…
Hello everyone and thank you for coming. As you know, tonight’s event was inspired by Paris is Burning, Jenny Livingston’s legendary documentary that chronicled the ballroom scene of the New York 1980’s. For all its limitations, that documentary laid bare the violence and oppression experienced daily by queer and trans folk…
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2015 @ MIAIM BOOK FAIR @ 5:00 PM A QUEER QUINCEAÑERA with Juleysi y Karla & graduates of the RQ Writing Academy. Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 @ 5:00 pm. Cruising the boundary between poetry and performance art, A Queer Quinceañera is a celebration of Miami’s literary coming of…
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2015 @ MIAMI BOOK FAIR @ 2:00 PM Join Reading Queer @ Miami Book Fair for NEW POEMS: A READING features RQ Writing Teacher & Advisory Board Member Julie Marie Wade. Wade will read from her poetry collection When I Was Straight–poems that are lush post-confessional poems, unabashed in…
SAVE THE DATE – Donate to Reading Queer on Give Miami Day Just over one year ago, I launched the first Reading Queer Literary Festival at the Betsy Hotel – South Beach. With the support of our sponsors and individual donors like you, Reading Queer inaugurated the first queer-centric literary festival…
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2015 @ MIAMI BOOK FAIR @ 12 NOON INTERSECTIONAL POETICS: MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, ONE READERSHIP with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Achy Obejas, Guggenheim and NEA fellow Rigoberto González, Julie R. Enszer, Raymond Luczak and hosted by Lawrence Schimel, founder of A Midsummer Night’s Press, the preeminent publisher of LGBT poetry…
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2015 @ MIAMI BOOK FAIR @ 11:00 AM Join Reading Queer @ Miami Book Fair for CELEBRATING THE LAMMYS: Winners & Finalists of the LAMBDA Literary Awards with Rick Barot, Dawn Lundy Martin, Stephen Mills and Valerie Wetlaufer. (*Please note that “The Lammys” is incorrectly titled “Queer Veses” on…
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2015 @ MIAMI BOOK FAIR @ 10:00 AM Join Reading Queer @ Miami Book Fair for Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New is the quirky love child of award-winning poets Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, which exploits and explores feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, and Olive Oyl. Sunday,…