May 14, 2019, Tuesday - Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride Book Launch at Open Book

Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride Book Launch

Time: 7p -9p

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave S

Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride Book Launch

Join us for the book launch for "Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride" edited by Andrea Jenkins, John Medeiros and Lisa Marie Brimmer!

About "Queer Voices":

Forty-four LGBTQIA+ voices provide a vibrant, necessary, and dazzling component of Minnesota's cultural and historical fabric.

Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country.

In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living, loving, working, learning, playing, reflecting, knowing, inventing, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability.