White Whale Bookstore
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Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
White Whale Bookstore is overjoyed to host a belated Valentine’s Day reading (because there’s no wrong time to celebrate love!) featuring six poets their poems about love: Faylita Hicks, Benjamin Garcia, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Kenzie Allen, Allison Adair, and Matthew Olzmann. This event will be held on Zoom at 8pm ET. Register here!
You’ll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 7:30pm ET on 2/18. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket.
Allison Adair
Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals; and have been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition. She is the author of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize-winning collection, The Clearing, forthcoming June 2020.
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.
Winner of the 2019 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness.
Thrown in the Throat is a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times.