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ONLINE: A Celebration of Queer Voices May 10, 2021 6:30 PM press release: A Room of One's Own, Noemi Press, and Lambda Literary present a virtual reading to celebrate queer voices, featuring authors Melissa Febos, Khalisa Rae, Melissa Faliveno, Emilia Phillips, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sofia Fey, and Ashley Elizabeth Evans. This Crowdcast event will be emcee'd by Suzi F. Garcia. Khalisa Rae is a poet and journalist in Durham, North Carolina, that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press 2021). Her essays are featured in Autostraddle, Catap...

EAST COUNTY —  The Grossmont College Literary Arts Festival is back after a one-year COVID-19 hiatus, marking its 25th anniversary with virtual events starting Monday and running through Thursday. The free festival, open to the public, is put on by the English Department’s Creative Writing program and highlights poetry, memoirs, literature and student writings. It also provides an opportunity to hear writers nationwide discuss their inspirations and challenges. Find registration links, writer biographies and workshop descriptions at https://tinyurl.com/3akfaxnb. The schedule: Advertise...

Michelle Lin April 20, 2021 Bestiary, published by One World / Random House, is K-Ming Chang’s debut novel. Chang’s writing style is a siren song—it pulls readers into her stories of loss, survival, and multi-faceted love. A Kundiman fellow and Lambda Literary Award finalist, Chang’s work blends and breaks down genre. I first discovered Chang’s work as a poet, and reading Bestiary feels simultaneously like coming home and a breath of fresh air. Here, we discuss intergenerational relationships, the idea of a homeland, and her writing inspirations. Michelle Lin: Firstly, the conc...

He is the author of The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way Books, 2022);  More Than Watchmen at Daybreak (Nine Mile Books, 2020);  The Gospel According to Wild Indigo (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018);  The Crossed-Out Swastika (Copper Canyon Press, 2012);  More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004);  Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), which won the Lambda Literary Award;  Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the William Carlos Williams Award; and  The Mud ...

Did you hang out with friends, catch up with school work or do anything else except browse cable TV on the night of March 14? If you said yes, chances are you missed this year’s Grammy Awards. Do not fret, because I watched all three hours and 45 minutes of the award show so you don’t have t… More Headlines