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SUMMARY:Queer Pleasure: A Poetry Reading (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Queer Pleasure: A poetry reading featuring Julia Guez\, Timothy Liu\, Ricardo Maldonado\, & Angelo Nikolopoulos. \nBooks by all of the readers are available for purchase at the Bureau. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nJulia Guez is a writer and translator based in New York City. Four Way Books released her first full-length collection\, In An Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also A Frame\, in 2019. They will release her next book\, The Certain Body\, in 2022. Guez has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship\, and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation as well as a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Rutgers.  \n  \nTimothy Liu has taken early retirement after 24 years. After taking some time off\, he will be joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in the fall. In the meantime\, he has put the icing on his latest multi-layered cake\, Under Lockdown AKA Trickle-Down Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. He gives tarot readings at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck and lives year-round in Woodstock\, NY.  \n  \nRicardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He lives in New York\, where he serves as managing director at 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Maldonado is the author of The Life Assignment (Four Way Books). \n  \nAngelo Nikolopoulos is the author of Obscenely Yours and PLEASURE (Four Way Books\, 2022). He teaches at Hunter College.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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