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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin\nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\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  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: When Two Won't Do
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 October 2nd please join us for a viewing of When Two Won’t Do (2002)\, a documentary by Maureen Marovitch and David Finch. \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. \nSynopsis: Maureen and David are Canadian filmmakers and romantic partners who explore opening their relationship while interviewing multi-partner families and attending conventions. CW: suicide. Running time: 57 minutes. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:The Whole Megillah
DESCRIPTION: \nIf You Blink\, You’ll Miss It: An Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Rumi Missabu (71)\n \n  \nRumi Missabu was an original member of the radical theater troupe\, the Cockettes. He left the group after a year and a half\, moved to New York and then returned to San Francisco. For 35 years\, he lived completely off-the-grid.\n \n \n \nAugust Bernadicou is Rumi Missabu’s official biographer. He is the founder of The LGBTQ History Project. Since he was 14 years old\, August has been recording and transcribing interviews with gay elders from the 1950s through the AIDS Crisis.\n \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Lou Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn celebration of the publication of the edited diaries of the great gay transsexual activist\, a roster of writers and filmmakers share work that celebrates transmasculinity\, intimacy\, and freedom. Featuring Cyrée Jarelle Johnson\, Davey Davis\, Jamie DiNicola\, Chris Berntsen\, An Duplan\, Stephen Ira\, and Serge Rodriguez–as well as readings from Lou himself through noted spiritualist medium Zach Ozma.\n \nCopies of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Nightboat Books\, 2019) will soon be 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 
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SUMMARY:Queer Women Writers Bloom Panel at The Rainbow Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \nQueer womyn writers and literary curators of color\, all members of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon\, on the importance of curating and supporting queer literary spaces. This interactive panel of queer writers and literary organizers will discuss their community activism in the literary community\, including the importance of centering queer/lgbtq writers and artists both now and in the future. Each writer will also share an excerpt of their own powerful literary work.\nFeatured panelists/writers: R. Erica Doyle\, María Fernanda\, JP Howard\, & Nicole Shawan Junior \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nQueer Women Writers Bloom Panel is part of the 10th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair 2019\, taking place on the first and third floors of \nThe LGBT Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\nNY\, NY 10011 \nFrom noon to 6 PM on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-women-writers-bloom-panel-at-the-rainbow-book-fair/
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SUMMARY:Queer & Trans Zine Reading: NYC Feminist Zinefest 
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC-based zine and comics creators – – JB Brager (My Gender is Saturn Return)\, Cassandra Leveille\, J Hansen (Queerly Sober)\, Quinn Milton (The Pope is Trans)\, Zefyr Lisowski & Charles Theonia (Femmescapes)\, and Ximena Izquierdo – – will read from their work\, a spectacle of queer visions and reckless imagination. \n  \nNYC Feminist Zinefest was started in 2012 by Elvis Bakaitis and Kate Angell\, as a way to showcase the works of feminist-aligned creators and marginalized voices. FZF is one of the city’s largest and longest running zine events\, and will be held in March 2020. \n \n \nCassandra Leveille has been contributing to zines since 2012\, including hoax\, On Struggling and Jealouzine. Cassandra has also authored two zines of her own\, Secondhand Emotion\, a zine about the politics of attraction under late capitalism\, and CUT\, a zine about shaving her head and the politics of black hair in 2018. She is currently working on a compilation zine on how care work functions as a superpower\, the final zine in the Secondhand Emotion series\, and a zine called Fictive Kinships on the traumas wrought by 2016.\n \n \nJ Henry Hansen is a writer\, performer\, queer + sober traveler\, activist and ordained minister whose adventures are chronicled on the Queerly Sober blog. J  recently wrote and performed in the solo show\, “The Escape Artist”.\n \n \nZefyr Lisowski is a femme sun/femme moon/futch rising living in New York. She’s a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal\, a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop attendee\, and the author of Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019); more information online @zefrrrrrrr and at zeflisowski.com.\n \n \nCharles Theonia is a poet from Brooklyn\, where they’re at work externalizing interior femme landscapes. They’re the author of art book Saw Palmettos\, on hormones\, community\, and the brain-time continuum (Container\, 2018)\, and chapbook Which One Is the Bridge (Topside Press\, 2015). With ray ferriera and Abigail Lloyd\, they edit Femmescapes\, a magazine of queer and trans affinities with femmeness.\n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Queer & Trans Zine Reading is part of the 10th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair 2019\, taking place on the first and third floors of \nThe LGBT Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\nNY\, NY 10011 \nFrom noon to 6 PM on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T190000
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SUMMARY:Violet Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:  \nAcclaimed queer authors Trebor Healey and Craig Laurance Gidney explore the veil between worlds in their newest books\, Falling and A Spectral Hue. These are stories of artists making contact with a metaphysical or mystical reality\, expanding and queering our understanding of the world we live in. Healey and Gidney’s work portrays the otherworldliness of the southern border and America’s misunderstood African-American past. Their work is an invitation to an America that could be in the wake of an America that was\, an America haunted with the promise of ghosts that cannot be forgotten and that can in fact enrich us. An America not so banal to call itself great\, but one that can call itself whole.\n \nReception at 7 pm\, followed by reading at 7:30 pm\n \nCopies of Gidney’s A Spectral Hue and Healey’s Falling will be available for sale. To reserve books 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  \nCraig Laurance Gidney is the author of the collections Sea\, Swallow Me & Other Stories (Lethe Press\, 2008)\, Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction (Rebel Satori Press\, 2014)\, Bereft (Tiny Satchel Press\, 2013) and The Nectar of Nightmares (Dim Shores\, 2015). He lives in his native Washington\, DC. His new novel\, A SPECTRAL HUE\, is out from Word Horde. Website: craiglaurancegidney.com. Instagram\, Tumblr & Twitter: ethereallad. \n \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nRecipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award\, Trebor Healey is the author of A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors\, as well as a poetry collection\, Sweet Son of Pan and three collections of stories — A Perfect Scar\, Eros & Dust and the recently-released Falling. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie Evans) Queer & Catholic. He lives in Mexico City. www.treborhealey.com \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Tell Us How You Really Feel\, 2019 New Masculinities Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \nListen up to Tell Us How You Really Feel\, at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, at the 2019 New Masculinities Festival. \n  \nCreator Remy Ramirez writes: “The Tell Us How You Really Feel Project was born out of a deep frustration in my search for meaningful connections with men. After years of dating\, I couldn’t understand who men were\, why they behaved the way they did\, or if they actually loved women. So I went out into the world and interviewed 25 cisgender\, heterosexual men of varying ethnicities\, ages\, and relationship statuses\, asking nearly 40 questions\, like: What does loneliness look like to you and how often do you experience it?; What does vulnerability mean to you?; Have you ever fantasized about falling in love\, having children\, or getting married? This project is the collection of those responses.” \nThe Bureau offers a special listening station for a curated set of Remy’s interviews\, during the 2019 New Masculinities Festival. Also on display find a curated selection of books and zines interrogating masculinity. \nLearn more and get your festival tickets here. \nNo ticket required to visit Remy Ramirez’s listening station inside the Bureau (room 210 of The LGBT Community Center). \nSee the full lineup of performances at www.manquestion.org/festival \nIllustration: Azmi Mert Erdem and Michael Wilson \nThe 2019 New Masculinities Festival is produced by Man Question and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center\nWith the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T190000
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SUMMARY:TELL 57: My Masculinity
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.\n \nMy Masculinity is the theme of the 57th TELL in conjunction with the New Masculinities Festival taking place at The LGBT Community Center in room 301 and in the Bureau on the same day\, Saturday\, October 19\, 2019. Featuring stories by Topher Gross\, Marcus Hicks\, Sammie James\, and Milo Jordan.\n \n \nPhotograph by Grace Chu \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \nTopher Gross (photo by Asher Torres)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nTopher Gross is a born and bred Brooklyn kid who learned the art of storytelling from his Jewish grandma\, Edith. He is an appearance enhancement artist aka hairstylist\, party thrower+ yenta\, aspiring cartoon voice over actor and marijuana dispensary owner. Topher has performed stories at Tell\, Tell It\, at various burlesque shows\, dinner tables\, on live journal and a blog for original plumbing magazine. He was featured on the Graham Norton show as the “big gay following” of Kylie Minogue. \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 \nMarcus Hicks is a Brooklyn based designer\, tailor and humorist. Born and raised in Bakersfield\, CA\, Hicks studied Black Studies at San Francisco State University before moving to New York to start a career in fashion. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \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; where she hosts and produces The LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic. Sammie also hosts the podcast All Of My Friends Are Animals and The NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans. She performs all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival\, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she 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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMilo Jordan is a non-binary performer\, singer\, and gymnast. Previously seen in such classics as “Prudence” in Nutritional Yeast and “Vampire Potter” in My Immortal: a DRAMATIK Reading\, Milo also professionally dopplegangers “Aiden Abett” from America’s Favorite All-Boy Band. When not on stage\, he can be found in his recurring role of “That Dog Walker” in Crown Heights\, Brooklyn. [Exit\, stage left\, pursued by six dogs.] \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Memoir: the Transformative Power of Art
DESCRIPTION: \nPlease join us for a reading by poets Dean Kostos and Alan Baxter in celebration of their recently published books: The Boy Who Listened To Paintings and A Second of Eternity.\n \n \n“THE BOY WHO LISTENED TO PAINTINGS offers much to ponder concerning topical issues like family dysfunction\, bullying\, homophobia\, sexual harassment\, and the failure of our society to support its young people. Tragedy here has a good outcome\, though\, when the victim finds his way out of the infernal maze.” Alfred Corn\n \n \nCopies of Kostos‘s The Boy Who Listened To Paintings and Baxter‘s A Second of Eternity will both be 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDean Kostos‘s eight poetry collections include PIERCED BY NIGHT-COLORED THREADS and THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER (recipient of the BENJAMIN SALTMAN Poetry Award\, selected by Mark Doty). Kostos’s anthology\, POMEGRANATE SEEDS\, had its debut reading at the United Nations.\n \nHis poems\, criticism\, and translations have have appeared in over 300 journals\, including Boulevard\, The Cincinnati Review\, Southwest Review\, The Western Humanities Review\, Oprah Winfrey’s website Oxygen.com\, and The Harvard University Press website. Kostos also received a Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Grant. \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 \nHaving been a mainstay of the New York City Poetry Circuit for the last twenty years\, Alan Baxter has read as a featured poet in Evie Ivy’s Dance of the Word at the Bowery Poetry Club and has also read his material at ABC No Rio\, The Green Pavilion\, and the Brownstone Poets. He has had his poems published in Nomad’s Choir\, the Stained Sheets\, and four of his works included in the poetry anthologies Dinner with the Muse and The Venetian Hour. He hosted the Kairos Poetry Café in Manhattan for almost eighteen years\, and in 2010 published his first book of poetry Shall We Have Magic? He now assists Chester Johnson with the poetry program at Trinity Wall Street Church in New York City\, as well as reading poetry at St. Johns and at The Church of the Village in Greenwich Village.\n \nAlan Baxter is not only a film-maker who has co-produced many independent movies\, but he is also the founder of AB Film Productions\, which a number of years ago mounted the award-winning film Barriers\, which Mr. Baxter personally directed. He is also the producer of the documentary Artwatch\, which contains interviews with leading art historians who have appeared many times on the famous TV show 60 Minutes. Mr. Baxter also wrote the play Juan and Emmett which Ivy Theatre produced in a small theater in New York City. He has taught literature and basic writing at The College of New Rochelle and Ramapo College.\n \nProfessor Baxter was brought up in Silver Spring\, Maryland\, right outside Washington\, DC\, and later graduated from the College of William and Mary. He did his graduate work at American University. Right now he lives in both Greenwich Village\, New York City and in Montreal\, Canada. \n  \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Good Hot Stuff: The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau - Book Presentation with Q&A
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with Éditions Moustache to bring you:\n \nGood Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau\nBook Presentation\, including a Q&A with Robert Alvarez (Editor of the Hand In Hand Films and longtime partner of Jack Deveau) and Jeffrey Escoffier \n  \nThe films of Jack Deveau and his production company Hand In Hand once were praised both by audience and critics as the perfect symbiosis of legit feature films\, underground avant-garde and explicit all-male adult movies. During the Golden Age of Porn\, Hand In Hand was an essential and acclaimed part of the New York art circles and its Independent film scene. The early death of Jack Deveau\, the AIDS-crisis and the video revolution changed the porn film industry forever. All this happened at the same time and within a couple of years the Hand In Hand heritage – which should be recognized today as an important chapter of the upcoming queer film movement – was almost forgotten. This book bundles very personal interviews with most of the remaining people that worked as cast and crew members on the films of Hand In Hand\, or somehow have been part of the circle around Jack Deveau. GOOD HOT STUFF tells the story of Hand In Hand in fragments\, carefully put together from many – totally different – perspectives and memories. It is a story about a filmmaker who had a vision way ahead of his time and the freedom to develop an individual auteur style within the limitations of the early gay adult film industry. Besides the actual conversations\, the reader can also learn about the production process and the history of the films – based on hundreds of images\, most of them never published in public before; among them original artworks\, company ephemera\, behind the scenes footage\, private snapshots\, and numerous magazine articles.\n \n \nCopies of Good Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau will be 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 \nGood Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau\n$34.99\nÉditions Moustache\, 2019\nPaperback\, 1.19″ H x 11.0″ L x 8.5″ W (2.97 lbs) 590 pages \nMaking of Ballet Down The Highway\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBehind The Scenes of Fire Island Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:A Reading by Samuel Ace and Miller Oberman
DESCRIPTION: \nPoets Samuel Ace and Miller Oberman will perform from their recent books\, as well new work\, at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division on Friday\, October 25 at 7 p.m. Please join us!\n \n \nCopies of Samuel Ace‘s Our Weather Our Sea and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. and Miller Oberman‘s  The Unstill Ones are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve copies of any of these titles please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently OUR WEATHER OUR SEA (Black Radish 2019)\, and the newly re-issued MEET ME THERE: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash.\, (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, Vinyl\, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts.\n \n \nMiller Oberman is the author of THE UNSTILL ONES\, Princeton University Press\, 2017. Poems and translations from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry\, The Nation\, London Review of Books\, Tin House\, Berfrois\, and Harvard Review. Miller teaches writing at Eugene Lang College and lives with his family in Queens\, New York.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Presents: Craft Class and Reading with Paco Márquez
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: “If You Love a Poem Translate It!”— a FREE translation craft class and reading with author Paco Márquez. \n“If you love a poem and want to get closer to it\, translate it. Curious about translation but don’t know where to begin? In this workshop we will practice some basic approaches to translation – versions\, translations\, extrapolations. When to capture the essence more than the literal? When and how to let loose? With exercises\, dictionaries in hand\, and translation theories\, we will also discuss the art of translation and its relationship to our own work. No prior translation experience or knowledge of another language necessary. (Bring a poem or stanza that you would like to try translating into English\, either from another language you know or with a bilingual dictionary of that other language.)” \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nA public reading will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 17 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepuscualrio\, for the first time into English as\, Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). He is currently working with Mexican poet Coral Bracho to translate her work into English. Paco’s work has been supported by The Center for Book Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and New York University\, where he acquired an MFA in creative writing and was poetry editor of Washington Square. Paco has poems forthcoming in Fence\, and previously published in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache. Originally from León\, México\, he’s spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Critical Generosity with Holly Hughes and David Román
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin the Bureau and NOGO Arts for an evening with Holly Hughes and David Román. Hughes and Román will discuss the history of LGBTQ art and performance over the past 40 years to highlight the idea of Critical Generosity. In addition to talking about their own work as performers\, writers\, and professors\, they will also talk about ways we can engage historical and contemporary work from a queer point of view to allow for an empathic experience as viewer/audience member/critic. Come hear these two important figures and share in a conversation about how we might respond to aesthetics in a different way. Limited seating! \n  \n  \nDavid Román is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books: Acts of Intervention: Performance\, Gay Culture\, & AIDS and Performance in America: Contemporary US Culture and the Performing Arts\, and several edited volumes. Professor Román’s research focuses on theatre and performance studies\, with an emphasis on contemporary US culture\, and American studies\, with an emphasis on race\, sexuality\, and the performing arts. His current projects include an edited volume of essays on the plays of Tarell Alvin McCraney\, Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theatre\, Performance\, Collaboration (Northwestern UP\, 2020) and an edited volume of essays on the career of Taylor Mac\, The MacBook (University of Michigan Press\, 2021). He is also currently working on two book-length projects\, Reviving Broadway\, on the cultural politics of Broadway from the 1930s to the present\, and Remembering AIDS\, on the early AIDS years in the United States. He is a former editor of Theatre Journal and a founding editorial member of GLQ. He’s served as the scholar-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles under the leadership of founding artistic director Gordon Davidson and he was the chair of the board of directors at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles under the leadership of founding artistic director Tim Miller. He has previously taught at Macalester College\, Pomona College\, the University of Washington-Seattle and Yale University. He’s won multiple awards for his scholarship\, teaching\, and service. \n  \nHolly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work maps the troubled fault lines of identity. Her combination of poetic imagery and political satire has earned her wide attention and placed her work at the center of America’s culture wars. Hughes was among the first students to attend The New York Feminist Art Institute\, an experiment in progressive pedagogy launched by members of the Heresies Collective. While there\, she worked with feminist artists such as Miriam Schapiro and Mary Beth Edelson and participated in performance work at A.I.R. gallery. In the early ’80s\, Hughes became part of the Women’s One World Café\, also known as the WOW Café\, an arts cooperative in the East Village established by an international group of women artists. As the Village gradually became a magnet for the avant-garde art world\, WOW served as an incubator for a generation of artists. Hughes has performed at venues across North America\, Great Britain and Australia including the Walker Art Center\, the Wexner Center\, the Guggenheim Museum\, the Yale Repertory\, the Drill Hall in London\, and numerous universities. She has published two books: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler and O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance\, co-edited with Dr. David Roman. In addition\, her work has been widely anthologized and has served as foundational material for performance studies\, queer studies and feminist performance studies. Hughes has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council\, the Ford Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation\, among others. She is the recipient of two Village Voice Obie awards\, a Lambda Book Award\, a GLAAD media award\, and a Distinguished Alumni Award. In addition to teaching at the University of Michigan\, Hughes is co-editing Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café\, with Alina Troyano for the University of Michigan Press\, and is creating a new solo piece entitled The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony). She has also been commissioned by the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender to create a new performance piece in celebration of the organization’s tenth anniversary. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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