During our time together, we’ll read some pieces resplendent in their brevity (thank you, Dinty Moore), talk about what makes them great flash – or not, and spend some time crafting mad flashes of our own.
Awareness is a Time Machine: A Collaborative Writing Workshop
Take a deep breath and travel in time all while never leaving your chair with Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs. Get tickets here. Workshop Description: “Time isn’t the main thing,” said Miles Davis. “It’s the only thing.” It’s our most precious resource—while everyone can use it, no one can keep…
Lusting for Lists: A Poetry/Hybrid Workshop
Burrow into familiar vessels and queer them from the inside out with Jubi Arriola-Headley. About this event Workshop Description: There are probably a billion ways for us queers to write ourselves into the world; one of them is to burrow into familiar vessels and queer them from the inside out. And,…
Mimosas & Mocktails: A Prose Open Mic featuring Philip Dean Walker
Share your prose during Mimosas & Mocktails, an open mic for the LGBTQI+ community.
Villanelles! Villanelles! Villanelles!: A Villanelle Workshop!
Join poets Beth Gylys and Dustin Brookshire for, yes, you guessed it, a villanelle workshop.
Writing Desire through Poetry: “Await What the Stars will Bring.”
Clayre Benzadón leads you on a journey through desire as inspiration for generating poems that sing. About this event Workshop Description: Desire is a core element of poetry (as well as that of queerness). Without it, most of the time, poems either fall flat or lose their element of urgency. In…
Mimosas & Mocktails: A Poetry Open Mic
Event Description: Reading Queer kicks off a new year of programming with Mimosas & Mocktails: A Poetry Open Mic featuring Caridad Moro-Gronlier. Join us from 1-2:30pm (EST) on Sunday, January 9, 2022. Those wishing to read in the open mic will need to sign up on Eventbrite. By registering for…
Hometown Verse: Workshop by Gustavo Hernandez
Physical space can be an important, sometimes defining, aspect of a poet’s work. Participants will explore how a sharp, specific focus on geography…
RE-VISION: Seeing Again with
Don’t kill your literary darlings. Resurrect and revise them. Get tickets here.
Collision, Collusion, and Craft with Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
About this Event The Wild Third Voice: Collision, Collusion, and Craft in Poetic Collaboration Join poets Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, long-time collaborators, for a craft talk and (possibly, hopefully) the chance (you get to choose) to participate in a linked collaborative poem which will 1. celebrate the day, 2.…