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Troubling the Line: Events Calendar

Join us for these upcoming events to celebrate Troubling the Line, coming to a city near you! Let us know if you are doing events & we can update this page, or copy it & post your own version so we can all get the word out! xo Trace

Wednesday, May 8 at 7PM
Troubling the Line at BGSQD: A NY Launch. At Bureau of General Services - Queer Division in NY(27 Orchard St) 7pm. Readers include: Aimee Herman, Ariel Goldberg, ECCrandall, Eileen Myles, Ely Shipley, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jake Pam Dick, Joy Ladin, and Kit Yan. Hosted by co-editor Tim Trace Peterson. http://mappemunde.typepad.com/mappemunde/2013/05/this-wednesday-troubling-the-line-at-bgsqd-a-ny-launch.html

 

Thursday, May 9-12
Troubling Tucson: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium - Casa Libre in Tucson, Arizona. http://www.casalibre.org/programs/spring13/TransSymposium/symposium.html  4 days of workshops, readings, and communityfeaturing Joy Ladin, CA Conrad, Dawn Lundy Martin, D'Lo, Samuel Ace, IanEllasante, Rae Strozzo, Hannah Ensor, Rocket, and TC Tolbert.

 

Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 PM
Troubling the Line at City College. At The Rifkind Room, NAC 6/316, The City College of New YorkReaders: Aimee Herman, Ariel Goldberg, EC Crandall, Ely Shipley (Baruch College), Jaime Shearn Coan (City College), Kit Yan, and co-editor Tim Trace Peterson (Graduate Center). Books for sale at the event. Co-sponsored by TheRifkind Center and The City College MFA Program.

 

Wednesday, May 15 at7 PM
Troubling the Line: Poetries of Resistance. At the Library Underground, Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. An evening celebrating the release of Troubling the Line:Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. The event will feature readings by:

Molly Bess, TT Jax, Y Madrone, Fabian Romero, TT Jax Readings will be followed by a roundtable discussion/Q&A. https://www.facebook.com/events/400664723365170/408422239256085/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

 

Saturday, Oct 19
Troubling the Line at the Red Rover reading series. Chicago, IL. This event is organized by Jen Jay Besemer. More info coming soon.

 

Wednesday, Dec 11
Troubling the Line Launch at The Poetry Project. NYC. More info coming soon.

This Wednesday: Troubling the Line at BGSQD (A NY Launch)

Wednesday May 8, 7-9 PM

at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division

Strange Loop Gallery, 27 Orchard St, NYC   

http://bgsqd.com/

Join us for an evening of poetry readings by contributors to Troubling the Line, the first-ever anthology of trans and genderqueer poetry, edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson

with readings by

Aimee Herman

Ariel Goldberg

EC Crandall

Eileen Myles

Ely Shipley

Jaime Shearn Coan

Jake Pam Dick

Joy Ladin

Kit Yan

hosted by co-editor Tim Trace Peterson

 

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This Friday: EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading at CUNY Chapbook Fest

This Friday: EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading at CUNY Chapbook Fest

EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival

featuring Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, and Susan Landers

Friday, May 3 at 1 PM
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
NYC

Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson

http://chapbookfestival.org

http://eoagh.com

Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image relations. Child is the author of 5 books of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrix and Artificial Memory among them) and a book of critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film from University of Alabama Press (2005). Her newest book of poetry, MOUTH TO MOUTH is forthcoming from EOAGH Books this summer. Child has taught film/video production and history at various schools and is currently Senior Faculty at SMFA, Boston. Her home is in NYC.

Jaime Shearn Coan lives in Brooklyn, New York, teaches creative writing and literature at City College, and leads a long-standing writing workshop with LGBT elders through the NY Writers coalition. His poems have appeared in several journals and his artist book, Dear Someone, the product of a collaborative queer letter-writing project, is distributed through Printed Matter. A 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Jaime has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Saltonstall Arts Colony. 

EC Crandall's poems have been published in PANK, Jupiter 88, Gay Shame, and The Trans Literary Reader. Crandall is co-author of the satiric novel Executive Privilege, and teaches in the University Writing Program at Columbia University.

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. Author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Feeling is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press), Javier is also as the publisher of a Queens-based tiny press, 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com).

Patricia Spears Jones is poet and playwright and author of Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde (2006) and The Weather That Kills (1994) and three chapbooks. She edited Think: Poems For Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat/ (2009) and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women (1978) and is editing 30 Days Hath September for the Black Earth Institute blog. Poems and prose are featured in African Voices, The Agni Review, Bomb, Barrow Street, Calabar, Callaloo, www.kwelijournal.org, Fifth Wednesday, The Oxford American, The Southampton Review, and TriQuarterly. 

Burt Kimmelman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011); Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 - 2013 (BlazeVOX [books]) is forthcoming. He has also published a number of books of criticism and scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. He teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs, a panic picnic (O Books), Covers (O Books), 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel), and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook (forthcoming, Perfect Lovers Press). Her latest project, Franklinstein, is a mash-up of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans, and the history of one Philadelphia neighborhood. She blogs about this project at susanlanders.tumblr.com.

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