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SUMMARY:Stories & Queer with Steven Cordova\, Shelley Ettinger\, Christopher Soto\, and Rosebud Ben-Oni
DESCRIPTION:Stories & Queer will hold its first event in NYC at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division on Monday\, January 6\, 2014 at 7:00pm (EST).  The event will feature Steven Cordova\, Shelley Ettinger\, Christopher Soto\, and Rosebud Ben-Oni. \nThe live event will be streamed and archived to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-34__YD3WJ9FTGh_E1pwg?feature= \nThe virtual components of this series are unique and allow us to reach beyond the local borders of the event. \nS&Q is a traveling reading series that aims to provide a space for local & national readers/listeners to connect with queer & queer-friendly writers. Our mission is to provide a space for underrepresented voices to be heard and to connect writers and audiences no matter where they are. This series makes a positive contribution to the literary and LGBTQ community by encouraging all people to tell their stories without shame or fear. \nS&Q is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\, a non-profit arts service organization. \nPlease note: the Bureau is closed on Mondays\, but we will open at 6 pm for this event.  \n \nSteven Cordova is the 2012 first-place winner of the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. His first full-length poetry collection\, Long Distance\, was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2010\, and his poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A selection from Long Distance was recently set to music for the AIDS Quilt Songbook. Steven lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n \nShelley Ettinger‘s work has been published in Nimrod\, Cream City Review\, Liberation Lit\, Blithe House Quarterly\, Lodestar Quarterly and other journals. She has been awarded residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation Arts Colony\, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women\, and\, in 2007\, a full scholarship to the first Lambda Literary Foundation Writers’ Retreat. An activist all her adult life\, Shelley is a partisan of political poetry and fiction. She’s currently working on a novel suggested by the famous death and secret lesbian life of Kitty Genovese. \n  \n\nChristopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet who is concerned with dismantling patriarchy and white supremacy.  They are currently curating Nepantla\, an e-journal dedicated to queer poets of color\, in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation. They have work forthcoming from Columbia: A Journal\, Acentos Review\,  Anti-\, Wilde Magazine and more. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU. \n  \n \nBorn to a Mexican mother and Jewish father\, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. A graduate of the 2010 Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater\, her plays have been produced in New York City\, Washington DC and Toronto. Her work is forthcoming or appears in American Poetry Review\, Arts & Letters\, Bayou\, Puerto del Sol\, among others. Her debut book of poems SOLECISM was published by Virtual Artists Collective in March 2013. Rosebud is a co-editor for HER KIND (herkind.org) at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more about her at 7TrainLove.org \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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