Co-presented by Lambda Literary & Lit Crawl San Francisco
How do queer writers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has further precluded them a sense of comfort? Foglifter Press, publisher of San Francisco's only queer literary journal, invites a handful of writers to explore how they claim their homestead, and what they claim it as in these times. Readers: Indira Allegra, Vianney Casas, Vernon Keeve III, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Daniel Lau.
About the readers:
Indira Allegra has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award, Lambda Literary Fellowship and Windgate Craft Fellowship. Her commissions include works for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimension Variable, Catharine Clark Gallery, Weinberg/Newton and The Alice Gallery, among others. Allegra has contributed works to Cream City Review, HYSTERIA Magazine, make/shift Magazine, Sinister Wisdom Journal and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, among others. She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada, Ponderosa Center in Stolzenhagen, Takt in Berlin, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She is a KQED 'Woman to Watch' and 2018 Art + Process + Ideas Visiting Artist at Mills College.
Vianney Casas was born in San Diego but raised in Tijuana. Before moving to San Francisco in 2013, she crossed the border every day for 6 years to go to school. She has been featured in Canto, Cipatli, Bossy, Chevere, Gentromancer, and Yerba Mala. Her work is a surrealist testimony where Spanish, psychoanalysis, visual art and artists like García Márquez, Dalí, Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta join powers to create poetry. Her chapbook, Girasol, is forthcoming from Foglifter Press.
Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry and rants Conversations with a Southern Migrant was published by Nomadic Press in spring 2016.
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and was the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author of the chapbook Camouflage published by MaCaHu Press, his poems, plays, and visual art have been published in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Enizagam, and New American Writing 25 among others.
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown, and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He holds degrees from Hunter College of The City University of New York and San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist
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How do queer writers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has further precluded them a sense of comfort? Foglifter Press, publisher of San Francisco's only queer literary journal, invites a handful of writers to explore how they claim their homestead, and what they claim it as in these times. Readers: Indira Allegra, Vianney Casas, Vernon Keeve III, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Daniel Lau.
About the readers:
Indira Allegra has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award, Lambda Literary Fellowship and Windgate Craft Fellowship. Her commissions include works for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimension Variable, Catharine Clark Gallery, Weinberg/Newton and The Alice Gallery, among others. Allegra has contributed works to Cream City Review, HYSTERIA Magazine, make/shift Magazine, Sinister Wisdom Journal and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, among others. She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada, Ponderosa Center in Stolzenhagen, Takt in Berlin, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She is a KQED 'Woman to Watch' and 2018 Art + Process + Ideas Visiting Artist at Mills College.
Vianney Casas was born in San Diego but raised in Tijuana. Before moving to San Francisco in 2013, she crossed the border every day for 6 years to go to school. She has been featured in Canto, Cipatli, Bossy, Chevere, Gentromancer, and Yerba Mala. Her work is a surrealist testimony where Spanish, psychoanalysis, visual art and artists like García Márquez, Dalí, Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta join powers to create poetry. Her chapbook, Girasol, is forthcoming from Foglifter Press.
Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry and rants Conversations with a Southern Migrant was published by Nomadic Press in spring 2016.
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and was the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author of the chapbook Camouflage published by MaCaHu Press, his poems, plays, and visual art have been published in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Enizagam, and New American Writing 25 among others.
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown, and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He holds degrees from Hunter College of The City University of New York and San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist
Co-presented by Lambda Literary & Lit Crawl San Francisco
How do queer writers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has further precluded them a sense of comfort? Foglifter Press, publisher of San Francisco's only queer literary journal, invites a handful of writers to explore how they claim their homestead, and what they claim it as in these times. Readers: Indira Allegra, Vianney Casas, Vernon Keeve III, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Daniel Lau.
About the readers:
Indira Allegra has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award, Lambda Literary Fellowship and Windgate Craft Fellowship. Her commissions include works for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimension Variable, Catharine Clark Gallery, Weinberg/Newton and The Alice Gallery, among others. Allegra has contributed works to Cream City Review, HYSTERIA Magazine, make/shift Magazine, Sinister Wisdom Journal and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, among others. She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada, Ponderosa Center in Stolzenhagen, Takt in Berlin, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She is a KQED 'Woman to Watch' and 2018 Art + Process + Ideas Visiting Artist at Mills College.
Vianney Casas was born in San Diego but raised in Tijuana. Before moving to San Francisco in 2013, she crossed the border every day for 6 years to go to school. She has been featured in Canto, Cipatli, Bossy, Chevere, Gentromancer, and Yerba Mala. Her work is a surrealist testimony where Spanish, psychoanalysis, visual art and artists like García Márquez, Dalí, Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta join powers to create poetry. Her chapbook, Girasol, is forthcoming from Foglifter Press.
Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry and rants Conversations with a Southern Migrant was published by Nomadic Press in spring 2016.
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and was the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author of the chapbook Camouflage published by MaCaHu Press, his poems, plays, and visual art have been published in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Enizagam, and New American Writing 25 among others.
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown, and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He holds degrees from Hunter College of The City University of New York and San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist
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How do queer writers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has further precluded them a sense of comfort? Foglifter Press, publisher of San Francisco's only queer literary journal, invites a handful of writers to explore how they claim their homestead, and what they claim it as in these times. Readers: Indira Allegra, Vianney Casas, Vernon Keeve III, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Daniel Lau.
About the readers:
Indira Allegra has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award, Lambda Literary Fellowship and Windgate Craft Fellowship. Her commissions include works for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimension Variable, Catharine Clark Gallery, Weinberg/Newton and The Alice Gallery, among others. Allegra has contributed works to Cream City Review, HYSTERIA Magazine, make/shift Magazine, Sinister Wisdom Journal and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, among others. She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada, Ponderosa Center in Stolzenhagen, Takt in Berlin, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She is a KQED 'Woman to Watch' and 2018 Art + Process + Ideas Visiting Artist at Mills College.
Vianney Casas was born in San Diego but raised in Tijuana. Before moving to San Francisco in 2013, she crossed the border every day for 6 years to go to school. She has been featured in Canto, Cipatli, Bossy, Chevere, Gentromancer, and Yerba Mala. Her work is a surrealist testimony where Spanish, psychoanalysis, visual art and artists like García Márquez, Dalí, Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta join powers to create poetry. Her chapbook, Girasol, is forthcoming from Foglifter Press.
Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry and rants Conversations with a Southern Migrant was published by Nomadic Press in spring 2016.
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and was the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author of the chapbook Camouflage published by MaCaHu Press, his poems, plays, and visual art have been published in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Enizagam, and New American Writing 25 among others.
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown, and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He holds degrees from Hunter College of The City University of New York and San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist
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