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SUMMARY:Carrying.On (Queer Narratives On Life and Death)
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Carrying.On” is a special edition the monthly queer storytelling show\, TELL. Hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. TELL has been featured on “This American Life” and is the longest running series at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. “Carrying.On” features two powerhouse storytellers: Pooya Mohseni and Elsa Waithe. They will be sharing their own true stories and or narratives around the themes of life \, death and carrying on. In the LGBTQ community\, as with most marginalized communities\, we go to a lot of memorials. The way in which we honor Queer people’s lives in life and death belongs to us just as our stories do. There will also be an opening musical set by Vie Paula. TELL is an event that seeks to give space to queer individuals to own their narratives around large themes. A chance to “snatch back the narrative“ and tell their stories on their own terms. \n  \n“Carrying.On” is one of the over 250 events during Reimagine End of Life\, a week of exploring big questions about life and death. The five boroughs of New York City are joining together to create over 250 events exploring death and celebrating life…from all perspectives. \n  \n  \nPooya Mohseni is an Iranian/American actor\, Transgender activist and writer. Pooya appeared in an award winning one woman show\, titled “One Woman”\, in United Solo Festival at The Theatre Row\, written by Cecilia Copeland & directed by Joan Kane. Her other recent stage performances include “The Good Muslim” by Zakiyyah Alexander\, directed by William Carden at Ensemble Studio Theatre\, Baltimore Center Stage’s “The White Snake”\, directed by Natsu Onoda Power\, Madame in The OUTLIERS’ production of “The Maids” directed by Ben Gunderson and the title role in “Death of a Persian Prince” at NYMITF & SAIPAF\, directed by Dewey Moss. She’s a recurring guest star on the new crime drama “Big Dogs” produced by Choice Films & Theatricals\, directed by Mathew Penn and Tony Glazer\, to be released in 2018. She’s also a recurring guest star in the first season of the USA network’s “Falling Water”. Follow @Pooyaland on Twitter/Instagram \n  \nElsa Waithe is a comedian and activist from Norfolk\, Va\, currently residing in Brooklyn\, NY. Her comedy is a mix of lighthearted but critical jabs at homosexuality and race\, but she mainly just talks about herself and weed. She’s taken home 1st place and “fan favorite” 3 times at the Virginia Beach FunnyBone in 2013. She appears on Internet Action Force. NBC Stand-Up Semi-Finalist. She was also featured on NPR’s “This American Life” in Oct. 2015. Elsa is a regular at Greenwich Village Comedy Club in Manhattan and The Experiment Comedy Gallery in Brooklyn. \n  \nSouth Bronx bred\, performance fed\, Vie Paula is a Caretaker\, Thing Maker\, Singer/Songwriter\, and Licensed Massage Therapist striving to learn how to tell the whole truth and spend as much time as possible with their roommate’s cat. With night life entertainment in the far away past and a recent foray into all things extra\, Vie wants to see you and be seen by you. They are currently working on staying connected and engaged\, figuring out what fun is\, and creating a life worth staying awake for. \n  \nDrae Campbell is an actor\, storyteller\, curator and emcee. She received a BFA in Theater from the University of The Arts in Philadelphia. Drae has been spotted on IFC.Com\, Conan. Refinery29 and numerous films. Look for her in the forthcoming\, DINETTE which was just featured at Tribeca Film Fest\, 2018. Some theater credits : Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE. She appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Also\, she once reigned as Miss LEZ. www.draecampbell.com \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/carrying-on-queer-narratives-on-life-and-death/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T190000
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SUMMARY:New Books on Trans Childhoods
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin authors Gayle Salamon and Tey Meadow for a reading and discussion of two new books that trace different trajectories of contemporary trans childhoods. Tey Meadow will read from her book\, Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century\, an ethnographic study of a generation of families actively supporting children through gender transitions. Gayle Salamon will read from her book The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia\, in which she examines the case of 15-year-old Latisha King\, a trans girl who was shot and killed by a classmate and misidentified as a gay boy in the subsequent murder trial. The authors will explore the roles of racial and class stratification in the emergence of trans lives\, and chronicle the ways parents\, teachers\, doctors and lawyers–in giving or withholding gender from trans kids–shape how livable trans lives can be. \n  \nReading and discussion will be followed by a reception and book signing. \n  \nTo reserve copies of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century and/or The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!\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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nTey Meadow is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. She is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century\, and the co-editor of Other Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology. \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nGayle Salamon is professor of english and studies of women\, gender and sexuality at Princeton University. She is the author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality\, and The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-books-on-trans-childhoods/
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SUMMARY:Trophy Boy NYC screening and cast Q & A
DESCRIPTION:  \nA special screening of the award wining short film Trophy Boy (run time 13 minutes). Followed with a Q & A with some of the cast \n  \nDevon born British actor Emrhys Cooper has done incredibly well for himself – not only did he bag himself the lead role in the Emmy nominated drama series Vanity starring alongside Denise Richards & Karrucehe Tran. As well as achieving a career in film & television appearing in many top US shows including Desperate Housewives\, CSI:NY\, Blackish and Person of Interest\, Emrhys has also featured in several West End musicals and worked as a dancer for a variety of musical superstars including Madonna\, Christina Aguilera and the Pussycat Dolls. He was also the first Western actor to star in a Bhutanese film and achieved an award for outstanding performance from a leading actor at the IndieFest film festival for his role in Kushuthara. But it’s his directional debut Trophy Boy which is really setting him apart from the crowd. Using his own social media experiences and witnessing how detrimental it can be to ones self awareness\, promoted him to not only; write\, produce\, direct and star in the film that recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. On the success of the short film\, Cooper is now developing Trophy Boy into a TV series through his own production company EmCo Entertainment. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trophy-boy-nyc-screening-and-cast-q-a/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T183000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: (A)sexual and The Open Photo Project
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nOn November 7th\, please join us for (A)sexual (2011)\, a documentary directed by Angela Tucker\, and a pre-movie multi-media screening of The Open Photo Project. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \n  \nTHE OPEN PHOTO PROJECT\nErika Kapin presents a screening of her ongoing work\, The Open Photo Project. This multi-media screening features a slideshow of photographs from a diversity of people in consensually non-monogamous relationships along with audio excerpts of them speaking about their relationships. Running time: approximately 45 minutes. \n  \n(A)sexual Synopsis: People who experience little or no sexual attraction seek to define their identity and build new relationship models. Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-asexual-and-the-open-photo-project/
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SUMMARY:Trans Figured Reading and Signing with Brian Belovitch
DESCRIPTION: \nBrian Belovitch shares his true story of life as a gender outlier and his dramatic journey through the jungle of gender identity in Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man. Brian has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish\, and later\, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. His book is a no-holds-barred memoir of a chaotic era and his candid journey through identity. He will be reading selected passages from the book as well as signing copies.\n \nCopies of Trans Figured are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\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 \n \n  \n \n  \nBrian Belovitch is a former editor at People magazine. A 2000 GLAAD award nominee for his play Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick\, Belovitch is a founder of Queer Stages\, an LGBT-themed dramatic series\, and a guest storyteller with the Generations Project. Belovitch is currently in a master’s program for mental health counseling at Hunter College. Today he works as an addiction professional and lives in Brooklyn with his husband of fifteen years.\n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trans-figured-reading-and-signing-with-brian-belovitch/
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SUMMARY:Book launch and reading: The Pr0n Series
DESCRIPTION:  \nGay comedy fetish writer Mark Boyd will read from one of his latest stories\, The Collared Master\, and share a free book sampler with several of the stories in his forthcoming Pr0n Series collection. Comedian James Angelo will MC and share his humorous take on navigating the gay fetish scene. \n  \nMark Boyd is a writer who regularly publishes in European fetish magazine Alphatribe. His comedy fetish fiction has been shared at events like Folsom Europe in Berlin and he has performed his work around the globe in cities like Barcelona.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-and-reading-the-pr0n-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T110000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Workshop Craft Class with Yanyi
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop  presents: “The Seat of Sensation: Concession as Pleasure and Memory”— a FREE craft class and reading with author Yanyi. \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. A public reading with Yanyi and members of the Office Hours Workshop will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 15 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \n  \nThe Seat of Sensation: Confession as Pleasure and Memory\nIn this workshop\, you will be asked to write for your life\, your life being time\, your body\, and the practice of noticing pleasure\, a communication with the self. Through generative exercises\, we will write through the senses and then practice writing with and toward desire through memory. You will need something to write with and on. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nYanyi is a poet and critic. In 2018\, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize\, awarded by Carl Phillips\, for his first book\, The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019). Currently\, he is an associate editor at Foundry and an MFA candidate at New York University. He formerly served as Director of Technology and Design at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, senior editor at Nat. Brut\, and curatorial assistant at The Poetry Project. He is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers Workshop and Poets House. His work was most recently published in LA Review of Books and The Margins. Find him at yanyiii.com. \n  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-poetry-workshop-craft-class-with-yanyi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T190000
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SUMMARY:TELL 48: EXTRA
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nEXTRA is the theme for the 48th installment of TELL\, guest-hosted by Melissa Rocah. Featuring Glo Butler\, Maya Eilam\, Ryan Houlihan\, Sammie James\, and Rachel Kaly. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMelissa Rocha is a Brooklyn based comic with a performance art background. She’s been on the scene for about three years producing her own shows and entertaining at venues such as: Club Cumming\, Union Hall\, Gotham Comedy Club\, & Littlefield. Most recently\, she’s come on as a producer & comic for Savage Comedy— a weekly show that’s been successfully running for four years. She’s currently working on her first film: How’s My Lipstick?— featuring an all women & queer people of color crew. She’s cried on stage three times this year. 🙂 t: @melisshious ig: @melsideponytail \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGlo Butler says: originally from Charleston\, South Carolina. Started comedy in DC then moved to Brooklyn\, NY where I reside currently. I’ve been featured on on Wendy Williams\, timeout Magazines “LGBTQ POC We’re obsessed with right now.”\nI currently host/ Produce 2 shows in Brooklyn\, and I also have a webseries “Glo in the City”(featured on IMDb\, funny or Die\, and YouTube). I have performed all over the country. \n  \n\n \nMaya Eilam is ready when you are. She is a karaoke regular\, facilitates freeform vocalization\, and believes no sounds are out of bounds. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRyan Houlihan is a comedian\, writer\, and fake ginger from New York. He’s worked on the shows Billy on the Street\, Difficult People\, and at Teen Vogue. You can stream his podcast “Tomorrow” if you want another loud gay person in your life. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey. She is host and producer of the LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic and The Uncomfortable comedy show. Sammie performs all over the tri state area and is soon to be your favorite disabled\, nerdy\, butch trans woman in comedy. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRachel Kaly (she/they) is a queer NYC-based comedian\, and writer. She is a contributing writer for ClickHole and has studied at the Annoyance Theater\, Second City\, and at UCB as a diversity scholar. She’s performed at all those venues\, plus Joe’s Pub\, iO\, and Union Hall and whatever da fuk else will convince you she’s legit. She performs regularly with Ladies Who Ranch and hosts her own show\, “The Ellen Show But Violent” every month. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2017\, and founded the Absurd Comedy Collective in 2016 in an effort to make more inclusive spaces for marginalized comics.\ntwitter: @rachel_kaly / ig: @rachel.kaly / www: rachelkaly.com \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Girl Tales Live Reading and 2nd Season Fundraiser!
DESCRIPTION:Who? You and the kids in your life! \nWhat? A live reading of The Literate Mermaid by Christina Quintana\, and a fundraiser for a second season! We’ll have a silent auction of a bunch of goodies\, face painting by Maggie Allen\, a coloring station and a feminist photo booth! \nWhere? Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @ The Center 208 West 13th Street Room 210 NY\, NY 10011 \nWhen? Sunday\, November 18th @ 3pm \nWhy? Girl Tales is a podcast featuring reimagined fairytales. Damsels in distress? Princesses in need of protection? You won’t find those here. The girls in our stories take control of their own destinies\, turning your favorite fairytales into exciting new adventures. \n\nGirl Tales offers a feminist twist on classic fairytales\, fables\, and myths. With energetic voice actors and professional sound design\, these radio plays burst to life at the touch of a button. \nWe’ve just ended out first season and have reached over 10\,000 listeners all around the world. We want to celebrate that with you and make sure we’re ready to get a second season up and running! Will you join us? Will you help us? \nCost: The Bureau is donating our space for this event because we believe in Girl Tales! If you are able to support the Bureau with a donation we would very much appreciate it! But no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/girl-tales-live-reading-and-2nd-season-fundraiser/
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion & Signing with Sasha Velour | VELOUR: The Drag Magazine
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Sasha Velour\, international drag superstar and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9\, for the release of her hardcover art book\, Velour: The Drag Magazine [Collector’s Edition] with a discussion at The LGBT Community Center on Sunday\, November 18th at 6PM followed by a signing in the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \n  \nSasha Velour will be joined by Velour editor and panel moderator\, Johnny Velour for an exclusive discussion with long-time Velour: The Drag Magazine collaborators: Miss Malice\, Pearl Harbor\, Ohni Lisle\, and Lady Quesa’Dilla. A signing with Sasha Velour will take place following the panel at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division — just upstairs in room 210! \n  \nThe panel discussion is a free event with registration. Books will be on sale at the Bureau following the panel. The signing is free and open to the public. \n  \nAt 296 pages\, entirely ad-free\, Velour: The Drag Magazine [Collector’s Edition] compiles all three volumes of Sasha’s critically-acclaimed magazine\, Velour (House of Velour\, 2015-2017). It is designed from cover to cover by Velour herself\, in her unique signature style\, and features illustrations\, collages\, fashion editorials\, poems\, interviews\, and essays by over 75 queer artists and drag performers from around the world. Since its inception\, the magazine has been dedicated to showcasing the work of drag queens and drag kings\, queer\, trans\, AFAB (assigned female at birth)\, and non-binary drag artists from all backgrounds. \n  \nThe pieces collected in this coffee table book are as varied and valid as the drag artists they depict. “There is ‘no right way’ to do\, or even define drag\,” Sasha Velour insists\, “We seek to celebrate it all.” \n  \nREGISTER FOR A FREE SEAT HERE. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/panel-discussion-signing-with-sasha-velour-velour-the-drag-magazine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T193000
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Trans Lives: Mizz June's War Call
DESCRIPTION: \nThere’s no getting around it\, the current political climate is a battleground. Add rising murders of Transgender women (specifically\, Transwomen of color) to the already increasing issues being faced by the TLGBQ community\, and it’s no wonder a song like War Call was created.\n \nWar Call\, the debut single and music video from NYC based trans hip hop artist Mizz June\, addresses these issues using powerful visuals and rhythmically layered beats. Directly following the screening of the music video\, there will be a panel/discussion with the artist and representatives from community organizations who’re taking action around bettering the lives of Transgender people. \n \nOrganizations such as FIERCE! NYC – a membership based TLGBQ youth of color organization in The Bronx that empowers its members through youth led campaigns and leadership development programs; House of GG  – the first national retreat site\, educational\, and historical center dedicated to Transgender people in the USA\, and New Alternatives a non-profit geared towards empowering homeless TLGBQ youth by providing them with valuable tools such as education and basic life skills trainings that will ensure self sufficiency beyond the NYC shelter system- will discuss how we can support each other\, and move forward during these intense times. Show up\, and learn how.\n \n \nThis event is FREE!\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nFrom the Lower East Side of Manhattan and The Bronx\, Mizz June\, the musical persona of NYC based Actor Julienne Brown- got her start in Musical Theater and Activism.  A protegee of luminary public figures Octavia St. Laurent and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy\, she was the first out Black Transwoman to be a guest cast member on a daytime soap opera (“All My Children”)\n  \nShe has appeared in music videos and\, performed on various well known stages in NYC and around the U.S. Her debut single\, “War Call” can be found here: www.theonetheonlymizzjune.com/music \nAnd\, here:\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2SiLxQe\niTunes: https://apple.co/2Pk42oO\nAmazon: https://amzn.to/2z51AYX\nGoogle Play Music:https://bit.ly/2yGuzDf\nBandcamp: https://mizzjune.bandcamp.com/\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fighting-for-trans-lives-mizz-junes-war-call/
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SUMMARY:Crime For The Holidays: Inside and Outside the Law
DESCRIPTION:  \nTwo award winning authors of crime fiction–Ann Aptaker and Cheryl Head–discuss their Lesbian protagonists’ relationship to the Law: one choosing to live as an outlaw\, the other working within the Law. \n  \nNative New Yorker Ann Aptaker‘s Cantor Gold crime series (Bold Strokes Books) has been honored with Lambda and Goldie Awards. The current book in the series\, “Flesh and Gold\,” examines issues of sex work and sex trafficking in pre-Castro Havana. Aptaker’s short stories have appears in two issues of the “Fedora” anthologies\, the online zine “Punk Soul Poet\,” and is featured in the November special issue of Switchblade: Stiletto Heeled. In addition to her life as an author\, Aptaker has been a curator at museums and galleries and is a professor of Art History at New York Institute of Technology. \n  \nCheryl Head is the award winning author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries (Bywater Books). The first book in the series\, “Bury Me When I’m Dead\,” was a 2017 Lambda Literary Awards finalist. The current book is “Wake Me When It’s Over\,” released in May 2018\, with book three\, “Catch Me When I’m Falling\,” scheduled for March 2019. Her book “Long Way Home: A World War II Novel\,” was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in the Historical Fiction\, and African-American Literature categories. Head is the Director of Inclusion for the Golden Crown Literary Society. She lives in an historic 1870 rowhouse in Washington\, D.C. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/crime-for-the-holidays-inside-and-outside-the-law/
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SUMMARY:Charlie Bondhus\, Kevin Hinkle\, and Dean Kostos Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome see poets Charlie Bondhus\, Kevin Hinkle\, and Dean Kostos read their latest work. Books on sale and drinks on tap! \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCharlie Bondhus is the author of Divining Bones (Sundress\, 2018) and All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag\, 2013)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his Ph.D. in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, and Copper Nickel. \nHe has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (UK). He is associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ). More at: https://charliebondhus.com. \n  \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKevin Hinkle of Asbury Park is a photo-based artist whose work has been exhibited in juried art shows including\, locally\, the Center for Contemporary Art (Bedminster\, NJ)\, Montclair Art Museum’s Affordable Art Fair\, the Center for Visual Arts (Summit\, NJ) the Perkins Center for the Arts (Moorestown\, NJ)\, as well as in exhibits in New York (where he received an Honorable Mention in Soho Photo’s Small Works exhibit)\, Maryland\, Virginia\, North Carolina\, and at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art\, California. \nHinkle’s work has also appeared in literary and arts journals such as The Tishmann Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, The Tulane Review\, Grey Sparrow\, The Pedestal Magazine\, and Utter\, several of these in conjunction with the poetry of Charlie Bondhus. \nIn addition to being part of numerous private collections\, Hinkle’s work can be found in the corporate art collection of PNC Bank. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDean Kostos’s memoir—The Boy Who Listened to Paintings—is forthcoming. His most recent collection of poems is Pierced by Night-Colored Threads. His previous books include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award\, selected by Mark Doty)\, Rivering\, Last Supper of the Senses\, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma\, and the chapbook Celestial Rust. He coedited Mama’s Boy (a Lambda Book Award finalist) and edited Pomegranate Seeds (its debut reading was held at the United Nations). \nHis poems and personal essays have appeared in over 300 journals and anthologies\, such as Boulevard\, Chelsea\, Cimarron Review\, The Dos Passos Review\, The Good Men Project\, Mediterranean Poetry (Sweden)\, New Madrid\, Memoir Journal\, Southwest Review\, Stand Magazine (UK)\, Storyscape Journal\, Western Humanities Review\, and on Oprah Winfrey’s website Oxygen.com. His choral text\, Dialogue: Angel of War\, Angel of Peace\, was set to music by James Bassi and performed by Voices of Ascension. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard UP website and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee\, he served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown Awards and received a Yaddo fellowship. \nHe has taught at Wesleyan\, The Gallatin School of NYU\, and The City University of New York. His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film by Jill Clark and screened at Tribeca and at the San Francisco Indiefest. He presented his paper “Schemes and Schemata: Endless Play” and read his poems at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/charlie-bondhus-kevin-hinkle-and-dean-kostos-poetry-reading/
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