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The Language in Question: New Poetry from Milkweed Editions
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Benjamin Garcia writes, "the language in question is corrupt // it's poison and salve // savage and sage // it's honeysuckle and bitter oleander." The poets in this reading, with recent books published by Milkweed Editions, all illustrate in varying ways the press's ongoing commitment to art that uses language to trouble and interrogate the status quo. Our poetries are radical, queer, disabled, genre-bending. We seek to celebrate our power as creators—come join us!
Participants
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, The Octopus Game, and The Diminishing House. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, where she coedits the journal Copper Nickel.
Benjamin Garcia provides HIV/HCV/STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher-risk communities in New York State. He has received scholarships from the Frost Place and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work is forthcoming in Lambda Literary, Indiana Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley is an Affrilachian author.
Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and essays has appeared in several journals and anthologies.
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound.
