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Say Gay Today: Writing in the Backward Climate of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Join queer poets Chen Chen, Nicole Tallman, Dior J. Stephens, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Dustin Brookshire for a discussion and reading focusing on the importance of voicing our existence in the face of recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across the nation (and the world). Come add your voice to the discussion and to the chorus of queer voices who refuse to go quietly into another age of erasure.
Participants
Dustin Brookshire
Nicole Tallman is an LGBTQ poet and the author of Something Kindred (SCE Press, 2022), Poems for the People (SCE Press, 2023), and Fersace (ELJ Editions, 2023). She serves as poetry ambassador and legislative director for Miami-Dade County, Florida, and poetry editor for Blue Mountain Review.
Chen Chen is the author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and United States Artists, he teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at Stonecoast and New England College.
Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Tortillera (Texas Review Press 2021). She is a contributing editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault (Beacon Press 2020) and associate editor for SWWIM Every Day. A career educator, she is an English professor in Miami, Florida, where she resides.
Dior J. Stephens is a proud, Midwestern Pisces. He is the author of three chapbooks, and their debut full-length collection, Cruel/Cruel, is out now with Nightboat Books. Dior is pursuing a doctorate degree in philosophy at UCincinnati and serves as managing poetry editor for Foglifter Press.
