Jun

Queer Poetry Salon: workshops, open mic, and poetry feature

by The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU

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Sat, June 18, 2022

1:00 PM – 7:30 PM MST

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Strengthening & growing queer culture in Arizona by bringing the world's great LGBTQIA2s+ poets to our communities

About this event

About this Event:

2022 Queer Poetry Salon season continues with workshops and readings from two of the country's most renowned queer poets.

The Equality Arizona Foundation and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University are partnering for quarterly readings with a diverse, world-class cast of queer poets. We aim to strengthen & grow queer culture in Arizona by bringing the world's great LGBTQIA2s+ poets to our communities.

This year the Queer Poetry Salon will offer free creative writing workshops presented by our featured poets! RSVP for your spot to attend a workshop in the ticketing link. Please note: while this event is free and open to the public, you must register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.

Schedule:

1-2:30 PM online writing workshop led by the Queer Poetry Salon's featured poet, Julian Talamantez Brolaski

3-4:30 PM online writing workshop led by the Queer Poetry Salon's featured poet, Hunter Hazelton

6-7:30 PM online open mic featuring 4 workshop participants & featured readings from our authors

About the Authors:

Julian Talamantez Brolaski is poet and country singer, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). With Juan & the Pines, they released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019. Their first full-length album is coming out this summer. Julian’s poetry was recently included in When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020).

Hunter Hazelton is a poet and educator from Phoenix, Arizona. His work has been featured by Best New Poets, Scribendi Magazine, Storm of Blue Press, among others. His debut chapbook I Never Understood Religion Until I Learned Your Name (2021) was published by Tolsun Books. Currently, he lives with his partner and two cats. He was born in 1998.