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SUMMARY:Fatspo Podcast Book Club
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nDiscussing writing by fat liberation scholars and fat icons\, making new friends with similar values\, and browsing the Bureau’s shelves: Welcome to Fatspo Pod’s NYC book club!\n\nRSVP to help us plan the best experience possible. You’ll also be added to our WhatsApp group where we discuss the book of the month\, anything else we’re reading\, and future NYC fat liberation events. \nKat Lyon is the co-host of Fatspo Podcast and the host of the NYC Fatspo Pod Book Club. Fatspo Podcast dives into the untold histories of fat icons and fat liberation scholars to inform how we embody our fullest selves and support each other\, as media and culture increasingly devalues our very existence. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Poets Royale: a reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nWe’re putting on a full POETS ROYALE at The Bureau to celebrate Ryan Tracy’s latest collection PROVINCETOWN PURPLES and Chris Campanioni’s ROLLING WINDOWS. Heavy hitter Timothy Liu\, author of 12 books of poetry\, joins the lineup with Kyle Carrero Lopez\, whose debut collection PARTY LINE was released this year. There will be readings\, discussions\, and signings at this poetry grand slam.  \nCopies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase at the event.  \nRyan Tracy is the author of three books of poetry: Provincetown Purples (2026)\, Lines in the Shed (2025) and Tender Bottoms (2023). His poetry and fiction have appeared in PANK (2019 Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction)\, The Sugar House Review\, Feral\, Twin Bird Review\, The Hyacinth Review\, and Chronogram. Ryan performs\, makes art\, and teaches literature. \nChris Campanioni was born in Manhattan and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His research connecting migration and media studies has been recognized with the Calder Prize and two Mellon Foundation fellowships\, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize\, International Latino Book Award\, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays\, poetry\, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues\, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press\, 2025)\, a monograph on migrant subjectivity called Drift Net (Lever Press\, 2025)\, the poetry collections Windows 85 (Roof Books\, 2024) and Rolling Windows (Roof Books\, 2026)\, and VHS (CLASH Books\, 2025)\, winner of the 2026 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. \nKyle Carrero Lopez’s debut full-length poetry collection PARTY LINE was published this July with Graywolf Press and has thus far been highlighted in V Magazine\, The Harvard Review\, New York Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Vogue\, and elsewhere. He also serves as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter.  \nTimothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose\, California to immigrant parents from Mainland China. He is the author of twelve books of poems\, including Of Thee I Sing\, selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Say Goodnight\, a 1998 PEN Open Book Margins Award; and Vox Angelica\, which won the 1992 Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.  Translated into a dozen languages\, Liu’s poems have appeared in such places as Best American Poetry\, Bomb\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Pushcart Prize\, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He teaches at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Fall Sweat — Queer Erotica Writing Workshop with Christian Pan — “The Forbidden” Edition
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThis course welcomes authors at any stage of their career\, from veterans who have a consistent writing practice\, to folks returning to the page after a hiatus\, to folks with little experience but who are curious\, willing to experiment\, and have fun. In-class\, we will have writing prompts\, discussion of key tools related to our craft\, readings of excerpts from other authors’ work\, and lively discussions. Participants in Fall Sweat are invited to write within the theme of “the forbidden”—what does this mean to you\, and how can this appear on the page?  \nFall Sweat will take place one night a week at the Bureau (in-person). Class size is capped at 15. Students may register for all 5 classes\, as well as “drop-in” for a single session; each class is self-contained in terms of material\, but students are encouraged to attend as many as possible\, as each one builds upon the other. At the conclusion of the workshop\, there will be a voluntary public reading at the Bureau\, where participants can read excerpts from their writings to their friends and loved ones. \n$15 — single session drop-in. NTAFLOF \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Fall Sweat — Queer Erotica Writing Workshop with Christian Pan — “The Forbidden” Edition
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThis course welcomes authors at any stage of their career\, from veterans who have a consistent writing practice\, to folks returning to the page after a hiatus\, to folks with little experience but who are curious\, willing to experiment\, and have fun. In-class\, we will have writing prompts\, discussion of key tools related to our craft\, readings of excerpts from other authors’ work\, and lively discussions. Participants in Fall Sweat are invited to write within the theme of “the forbidden”—what does this mean to you\, and how can this appear on the page?  \nFall Sweat will take place one night a week at the Bureau (in-person). Class size is capped at 15. Students may register for all 5 classes\, as well as “drop-in” for a single session; each class is self-contained in terms of material\, but students are encouraged to attend as many as possible\, as each one builds upon the other. At the conclusion of the workshop\, there will be a voluntary public reading at the Bureau\, where participants can read excerpts from their writings to their friends and loved ones. \n$15 — single session drop-in. NTAFLOF \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Fall Sweat — Queer Erotica Writing Workshop with Christian Pan — “The Forbidden” Edition
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThis course welcomes authors at any stage of their career\, from veterans who have a consistent writing practice\, to folks returning to the page after a hiatus\, to folks with little experience but who are curious\, willing to experiment\, and have fun. In-class\, we will have writing prompts\, discussion of key tools related to our craft\, readings of excerpts from other authors’ work\, and lively discussions. Participants in Fall Sweat are invited to write within the theme of “the forbidden”—what does this mean to you\, and how can this appear on the page?  \nFall Sweat will take place one night a week at the Bureau (in-person). Class size is capped at 15. Students may register for all 5 classes\, as well as “drop-in” for a single session; each class is self-contained in terms of material\, but students are encouraged to attend as many as possible\, as each one builds upon the other. At the conclusion of the workshop\, there will be a voluntary public reading at the Bureau\, where participants can read excerpts from their writings to their friends and loved ones. \n$15 — single session drop-in. NTAFLOF \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Turn Me On: Selections from The Bureau’s Erotic Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nEnjoy a reading by the attendees of the Fall Sweat Series\, an erotic writing workshop led by Christian Pan. Over the course of five sessions\, these writers expanded their craft to activate the senses and set our hearts and desires aflame. Come in\, the water is warm.  \nChristian Pan is the author of more than 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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