{"title": "Latine Queer Studies Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A public evening of queer Latine poetry, at which the Brooklyn-born poet Emanuel Xavier reads from his new book of poems, \"Still, We Are Sacred.\" It is a CC CLUE event hosted by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the English Department of the College of Staten Island, and refreshments will be served. Xavier's work bridges spoken word, literary poetry, and queer cultural history, and he has written several collections including Love(ly) Child, Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, and Radiance. 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Their book brings together a volume of lyrics and essays and a volume of music with lead sheets for 50 of the show's songs, creating a canon of queer music for a joyful world. 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It is a party for the queer familia and everyone who loves to sing along to the anthems they grew up with. 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Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet, educator, and organizer, the author of R E D and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull. Gia Gonzales is a New York City poet whose self-titled book won the 2024 Carolyn Bush Award. Rachelle Rahmé, born in Lebanon, published her first collection of poems, Mercurial, or Is that Liberty?, in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/make-room-a-new-voices-salon-with-chase-berggrun-gia-gonzale-56834/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org/events/psa-reading-series-gonzales-okeke-rahmé", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b72783070cf7fb0150879b65da4efee97d03afd1f3b777d8185d931363d9062-600.webp"}, {"title": "Some upcoming events", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Word Is Change", "address": "Tompkins Avenue 368, 11216", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thewordischange.com/events/bibliomania-book-fest-at-lincoln-center", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A roundup of upcoming literary events listed by the bookstore The Word Is Change at its Brooklyn location. They include a literary salon called Joy in the Soft Apocalypse with readers including M. K. Thekkumkattil, Amelia Possanza and Ashna Ali, hosted by Kate McDonough and Grazi Ruzzante, a poetry launch for Jay Gao's The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber (Nightboat) with special guests, a Halloween Open Streets called Trick or Streets, a reading of Brenda Ijima's Shelter Is Necessary for Existence (Two Dollar Radio), Liza Minno discussing Rule of Innocents with Lou Cornum, and a Pinko magazine launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/some-upcoming-events-56995/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hunter MFA Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "KGB Bar", "address": "East 4th Street 85, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An evening reading at KGB Bar featuring MFA students from Hunter. Writers present new work in fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including Solange Azor, Aurora Fox and Robin Arble, among others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hunter-mfa-reading-53381/", "official_url": "https://redroomnyc.com/event/hunter-mfa-reading-private-curtain/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/890d4745688066eb0d5883eda53ac9b2fcb3b6ed4f43fac45b10598ed23bbddf-1200.webp"}]}