Virtual
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Starting Admission: $5
This month, twenty phenomenal poets including Julian Randall, Alison Rollins, Benjamin Garcia, Kai Davis, and more are reading alongside our two featured poets: National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed and acclaimed poet and scholar Phillip B. Williams.
COVID19 has touched our lives in varying degrees, and for now, we’ve been advised to stay at home. In light of all city, state, and country-wide shutdowns, poets from around the world (particularly BIPOC & LGBTQ poets) have been struggling financially, navigating the loss of income from canceled gigs, low audience turnout, and scrapped book tours. Like we’ve done so many times before, we turn now to poetry and community as our beacon and hope that you’ll join us in celebrating tenacity in the face of adversity.
Join TQRS for two nights of poetry, laughs, love, and encouragement. Hear from award-winning poets, thrilling poets, poets who push us into new understandings of the written and spoken word.
Friday’s line-up:
Feature: Justin Phillip Reed
- Catherine Chen
- Sasha Banks
- Asia Bryant
- Claudia Wilson
- Jabari Jawan Allen
- Kai Davis
- Benjamin Garcia
- Ariana Brown
- Alison Rollins
Join us May 28th and 29th at 7:30pm on Zoom. Tickets to the Quarantine Reading Series are sliding scale beginning at 5.00 USD. Suggested donation is 15.00 USD.
All proceeds go to readers.
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Thrown in the Throat is a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times.