LOOK- MONDAY, November 3- doors open at 6:30. I mean, MARLON JAMES!!!!! PEOPLE!!!! One of the greats of our time. TAREQ BACONI bringing us news from the queer Palestinian Diaspora. CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN-bold, writer from Singapore. free tickets at www.performancespacenewyork.org

Friends- SPECTACULAR free program for FIRST MONDAYS on November 3- MARLON JAMES, CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN, TAREQ BARONI. Doors open at 6:30. Register for your free tickets at PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org.

New York is BACK

FIRST MONDAYS resumes on October 6 - (doors open 6:30, event starts promptly at 7) THEATRICAL- with M LAMAR, PHOEBE LEGERE, KAREN MALPEDE. Free tickets at: PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org. 150 First Avenue 4th Floor. Don't be a stranger!!!!

CHICAGO People: October 15th at Northwestern- an incredible conference of Colombian writers-FREE!!! Including our friend Jaime Manrique! With the amazing Julian Delgado Lopera and...from Colombia Gloria Susana Esquivel!

Friends, I am going back out with my new book, THE FANTASY AND NECESSITY OF SOLIDARITY. If you are in Chicago, Northampton, Montgomery AL, Highland Park IL, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Ridgewood NYC, Madison, St Louis, Salt Lake City or Columbus OH, please stop by.

Hey Friends in the WEST- Join me at:

Skylight Books -LA-w/ Danzy Senna- May 7

City Lights Books -SF- w/Caro De Robertis May 8

Elliot Bay Books -Seattle- w/Dan Berger May 10

Powells -Portland-w/Lydia Kiesling May 12

Haymarket House -Chicago w/ Daisy Hernandez March 14

Friends in Manhattan, Brooklyn, LA, DC, Baltimore, SF, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Providence, Boston, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Atlanta, and Somerville- lets talk!

First Mondays SEASON FINALE- May 5th- FREE
ALICIA GRULLON - Legendary Bronx Performance Artist.
HUGH RYAN- Radical Historian- previewing new work on
the East Village Queer Avant Garde.
MAAZA MENGISTE- Ethiopian-American novelist + Booker
Finalist

FRIENDS- This Monday! 7 pm!

Natalie Adler (editor of LUX magazine and debut novelist)
Carter Sickels (bard of Appalachian trans life)
Susan Stryker (ICON- previewing major work on trans history)

WE WON'T GO BACK!

LESBIANS! AIDS! TRANS PEOPLE!- Keep our voices loud.
FREE FIRST MONDAYS April 7 at Performance Space New York-WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!

NATALIE ADLER - Editor of LUX Magazine and debut novelist
CARTER SICKELS- bard of Appalachian trans life.
ICON: SUSAN STRYKER- previewing new work on trans history.

Dear Friends- Join me and other like-minded people in fun community to be together in real life and hear NEW WORKS-IN PROGRESS from our most exciting writers. FOR FREE tickets go to link.

See you Monday March 3 - doors open at 6:30.

Come share new literature with like-minded people. First Mondays- March 3 with HARRIET CLARK, MOLLY CRABAPPLE, AMITAVA KUMAR - free tickets at link. Doors open at 6:30- 150 First Avenue 4th Floor.

Be in real life with like-minded people! Join me on Sunday at 1 pm for a FREE collective reading of Audre Lorde's THE CANCER JOURNALS. 150 First Avenue, 4th floor. Performance Space New York.

I will be teaching at Macondo (founded by Sandra Cisneros) July 21-27 with some stellar colleagues. For information and registration go to MacondoWriters.com

Natasha Tretheway- 2 time US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet- will be presenting new, unpublished work-in-progress for free at FIRST MONDAYS, February 3 - doors open at 6:30. You can reserve tickets for you AND YOUR STUDENTS at link.

We just opened up some more FREE tickets to this event on Sunday Feb 9 at 1. Reserve now while they are still available.