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SUMMARY:Office Hours Broadside Exhibition Artist Conversation (virtual event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Office Hours Poetry Broadside Exhibition Artists’ Conversation! Poets will read their broadside work and then dialogue with their visual artist about the process of designing a unique broadside from concept to design to installation at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (9/14-9/18/22). \nView and purchase the broadsides here! \nYou can join on Zoom (and engage with the speakers) by registering on Eventbrite. AFTER you’ve registered\, please return to the Eventbrite page at the event time (Saturday\, 9/24\, at 3 PM EDT) and click on “Access the event” (at right\, below Tickets ). \nThis event will also be live-streamed via the Bureau’s YouTube Channel. \nIt’s free and open to the public! \nOffice Hours is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. We office free Craft Classes\, Manuscript Editing Workshops\, and a weekly writing workshop for fellows. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. For more\, visit us at: http://sarahmsala.com/office-hours \n  \nParticipants: \nJardley Jean-Louis is an NYC born award-winning artist\, animator\, art director\, and filmmaker based in Queens\, NY. Their work leans on their intersectional identities in Blackness\, queerness\, and the First (or Second) generation American experience. \n  \nBorn in Arkansas\, Lee Maxey lives and works in Brooklyn. Recent exhibitions include Be Not Afraid\, a solo show at Olympia\, NYC. Lee is an alumna of the Fire Island Artist Residency and the Hercules Studio/Art Program. She received her MFA in 2016 from Boston University and her BFA in 2011 from the University of Central Arkansas. \n  \nBrandon Menke is a queer poet\, designer\, and postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Yale and his MFA in poetry from NYU. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Yale Review\, Court Green\, Post45: Contemporaries\, Columbia Journal\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. \n  \nMeesh Nah is a multi-disciplinary artist currently working with flowers\, watercolor\, ink\, and acrylic. She draws inspiration from the ground\, the skies above\, and the spaces in between. She’s currently based in London. \n  \nShangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu\, China. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, his works appeared in The Nation\, Ploughshares\, The Yale Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is the author of the poetry collection\, Burying the Mountain (Copper Canyon Press\, 2021). \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore’s work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House\, Bread Loaf\, and the Frost Place\, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky\, now based in New York. Holly’s debut collection\, Mare’s Nest\, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in Spring 2023.
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Joy - A reading from I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:A reading and Q&A panel featuring Samantha Mann\, the editor for I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy along with a few of the contributors. Featuring special guest R/B Mertz will be there to discuss their memoir Burning Butch.  \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. \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 \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. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nSamantha Mann writes personal and nonfiction essays covering LGBTQ life\, mental health\, and feminism. Her work can be found on BUST\, Emry’s Journal\, The Establishment\, Bustle\, and Washington Post Magazine. Samantha lives with her wife in Brooklyn\, NY. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celebrating-joy-a-reading-from-i-feel-love-notes-on-queer-joy/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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