Join poets Chen Chen, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Dior J. Stephens, Alex Carrigan, Tyler Gillespie, and more for a special literary happy hour hosted by Nicole Tallman in celebration of LGBTQ+ poetry. Featured poets will read from their latest books, followed by an open mic and book signing. Cash bar. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Nicole Tallman at nicoleatallman@gmail.com. Note: as of February 2, this event is now at capacity.

Sunday, December 10, 3-4:30 pm

Via ZOOM: register in advance to receive the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduqoqTIjH91ENL3VOYcKRXTkpy2BW1zX

Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of four books of poetry including Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His poetry and nonfiction have been finalists for the 2022 PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and in Nonfiction, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2022 (poetry and memoir respectively). His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets in 2020. Whale Aria (Four Way Books 2023) is his fourth collection of poetry and currently he is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Lindsey Schaffer is a poet interested in exploring the intersections between creative writing and museum spaces. In particular, she seeks to understand material culture in the context of the cities in which it is displayed. This focus has led her to unearth a variety of contradictions in two cities which has culminated in two chapbooks, City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station, 2022) and Witch City (dancing girl press, forthcoming).

Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and an IPPY Silver Medalist in poetry, Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read,’ and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Salamander and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize, she is poetry co-editor of MER.