Louffa Press is pleased to present a new anthology of critical essays, artwork, fiction and poetry on the theme of Queer-y-ing or Questioning Artificial Intelligence (AI). What can we learn from studying AI using a queer lens? A feminist lens? An inclusive lens? A democratic lens? A socio-political lens? An egalitarian lens? A moral lens? To what extent does AI know about feminist/LGBTQ/POC perspectives? These and other inquiries are at the heart of this publication.

Readers include Beatriz Albuquerque, Rae Armantrout, Rebecca Goodman, Robert Anthony Gibbons, Jee Leong Koh, Paco Marquez. Hosted by publisher of Louffa Press, David Moscovich.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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To reserve a copy of Questioning AI, edited by David Moscovich (Louffa Press, July 17, 2025, paperback, $) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Questioning AI for September 12 event” in the subject line.

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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Biographies of participants:

Beatriz Albuquerque (Porto, Portugal) is an artist, performer, teacher and researcher (they/them). They hold a Doctorate from Columbia University in New York with a Foundation for Science and Technology Scholarship and a Fulbright/Luso-American Foundation Scholarship. They completed their Master of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prizes and awards include the Myers Art Award from Columbia University, the Revelation Award from the 17th Cerveira Biennial and the Ambient Series Performance Award, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago. They have held several individual and collective exhibitions including Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center; Chelsea Art Museum, The Kitchen, Emily Harvey Foundation, Anthology Film Archives, Queens Museum, MoMA PS1 in New York; Istanbul Biennial; Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology in São Paulo; Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogota; Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas; Museu Vila Velha in Vila Real, Graça Brandão Gallery, Serralves Museum, Nuno Centeno Gallery, among others. www.beatrizalbuquerque.com

Describing the poems in Rae Armantrout’s latest book, Go Figure, Library Journal says, “she has honed enduring art on the ephemera that constitute a consciousness in motion through the present.” Charles Bernstein says, “Her sheer, often hilarious, ingenuity is an aesthetic triumph.” Armantrout’s 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year. In 2010, Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Poetry, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Harpers, The Paris Review, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology and several editions of The Best American Poetry. She is Professor Emerita at UC San Diego.

Robert Anthony Gibbons has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. His first collection, Close to the Tree, was published by Three Rooms Press in 2012. His chapbook, Flight, was published by Poets Wear Prada in 2019. You Almost Home, Boy, was published by Harlequin Creatures (2019). With Brooklyn based artist, Amy Williams, Some Little Words was published by 440 Gallery, Brooklyn (2021), then Whom the Higher Gods Forgot (2022.) He has received funding from the Puffin Foundation, United States Artists, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Brooklyn Council of the Arts. A native Floridian, Robert came to New York City in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Green Pavilion, Nomad’s Choir, Brownstone Poets, Hydrogen JukeBox, Saturn Series, and Phoenix, among other venues.

Rebecca Goodman is the author of Forgotten Night (Spuyten Duyvil 2023), Aftersight (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015) and The Surface of Motion (Green Integer 2008). She teaches Creative Writing at Chapman University.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet, won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. He was also shortlisted for the prize for The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press/Awai Books), Connor and Seal (Sibling Rivalry), Sample and Loop (Bench Press), and Inspector Inspector (Carcanet). Koh’s work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Vietnamese, Russian, and Latvian. Originally from Singapore, Koh lives in New York City, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound.

Paco Márquez poetry has appeared in Fence, The Literary Review, Apogee, Philosophy and Global Affairs and Huizache, among others. His chapbook Portraits in G Minor was published by Folded Word Press in 2017. Originally from Mexico, Paco moved to California with his family at the age of 13. In college, he studied philosophy and literature at UC Berkeley. At age 42, he acquired an MFA in creative writing poetry from New York University. Paco has served as poetry editor at Washington Square, OccuPoetry, and 128 Lit.   www.pacomarquez.net

David Moscovich (it/its) is the Romanian-American author of four novels: You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, LIFE+70[Redacted], Blink if You Love Me, and Manhattan Other. Workday [CAPTCHA Poems] will be released by BlazeVOX in 2025. Moscovich runs Louffa Press, a small press publisher of chapbooks and artist books.