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SUMMARY:Anthology Reading: I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ+ contributors will read their poems on Marilyn Monroe\, as well as additional selections from their work.\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing editors Susana H. Case & Margo Taft Stever\, & contributors Joel Allegretti\, Patricia Carragon\, Alexander Cavaluzzo\, Robert Anthony Gibbons\, Matthew Hittinger\, Lynn Mcgee\, Elaine Sexton\, & Bruce E. Whitacre \n\nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSafety protocol \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. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \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  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nEditors:  \nSUSANA H. CASE is the author of eight books of poetry\, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books\, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books\, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection\, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version\, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. (www.susanahcase.com)  \nMARGO TAFT STEVER‘s latest of three full-length poetry collections are Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press\, 2019)\, which was shortlisted and received honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize\, and The End of Horses\, Broadstone Books\, 2022. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press\, 2019). She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Stever also teaches a poetry workshop at Children’s Village\, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. (www.margotaftstever.com)  \n  \nReaders:  \nJOEL ALLEGRETTI is the author of\, most recently\, Platypus (NYQ Books)\, a collection of poems\, prose\, and performance texts\, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing)\, a novella. His second book of poems\, Father Silicon (The Poet’s Press)\, was selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many\, many meanings of TV.” (www.joelallegretti.com)  \n  \nPATRICIA CARRAGON‘s poem Paris the Beautiful won Poem of the Week from great weather for MEDIA. Her latest book from Poets Wear Prada is Meowku and her debut novel\, Angel Fire\, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. (www.patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com)  \n  \nALEXANDER CAVALUZZO is an East Village-based writer and artist. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from Newsweek to Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine. (www.alexandercavaluzzo.com)  \n  \nROBERT ANTHONY GIBBONS\, a native Floridian\, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community. His first book\, Close to the Tree\, was published by the New York-based Three Rooms Press. He is a Cave Canem Fellow (2019–2021) and has received residencies from the Norman Mailer Foundation and the DISQUIET International Literary Program. In 2018\, he completed his MFA at City College.  \n  \nMATTHEW HITTINGER is the author of The Masque of Marilyn (GOSS183)\, The Erotic Postulate and Skin Shift\, both from Sibling Rivalry Press\, and the chapbooks Platos de Sal (Seven Kitchens Press)\, Narcissus Resists (GOSS183)\, and Pear Slip (Spire Press). He received his MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, where he won a Hopwood Award. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, has been adapted into art songs\, and in 2012 Poets & Writers Magazine named him a Debut Poet on their eighth annual list. Hittinger lives and works in New York City. (www.matthewhittinger.com)  \n  \nLYNN MCGEE‘s poetry collections include Tracks (Broadstone Books)\, Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil)\, and two award-winning chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press) and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press). A children’s book\, Starting Over in Sunset Park\, co-written by Lynn McGee and José Pelauz\, was published by Tilbury House Publishers and distributed by W. W. Norton & Company\, Inc. (www.lynnmcgee.com).  \n  \nELAINE SEXTON‘s most recent collection of poetry is Drive (Grid Books). She teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute\, serves as the visual arts editor for Tupelo Quarterly\, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is an avid bookmaker and micro-publisher\, and founder of the 2 Horatio poetry seminars. (www.elainesexton.org)  \n  \nBRUCE E. WHITACRE has completed master workshops with Jericho Brown\, Alex Dimitrov\, Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, and Mark Wunderlich. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and lives in Forest Hills\, Queens. (www.brucewhitacre.com)
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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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