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Queer Poetry Salon with CA Conrad, Raquel Salas Rivera, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Date(s): Saturday, September 19, 2020, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Type(s): Reading
Genre and Form(s): Gender, Gender Studies, LGBTQIA, Poetry, Sexuality
Cost: Free

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About the Book

Queer Poetry Salon & Equality Arizona are partnering with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State Univeristy for quarterly readings with a diverse, world-class cast of queer poets. We aim to strengthen & grow queer culture in Arizona by bringing the world's great LGBTQIA2s+ poets to our communities.

Featuring CA Conrad, Raquel Salas Rivera & Cyrée Jarelle Johnson on Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Arizona time on Zoom.

Open to the public and free.

About the Author


CA Conrad

CAConrad's latest book JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals, is forthcoming from Ignota Books in 2020. The author of 9 books of poetry and essays, While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), won a Lambda Book Award. They also received a 2019 Creative Capital grant as well as a Pew Fellowships in the Arts, a Believer Magazine Book Award, and a Gil Ott Book Award. They regularly teach at Columbia University in New York City, and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

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Photograph of Raquel Salas Rivera


Raquel Salas Rivera

Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayagüez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and receiving the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra. He is the author of five full-length poetry books. His third book, lo terciario/ the tertiary won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award.

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Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, a black transmasculine person with medium brown skin, a septum ring, and a nostril ring. He wears a shirt with a very loud print: gold circles surrounded by teal squares. Three buttons go up to the neck of the collarless shirt. His


Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet and librarian from Piscataway, NJ. SLINGSHOT, his first book of poetry, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and is a finalist for a 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award. SLINGSHOT is available now at https://nightboat.org/book/

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