Sat June 17, 2023
Offsite: Books on the Garden, In Our Nature: Queer Work in the Garden
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Join us on Saturday, June 17th at 1pm for the latest installment of our Books on the Garden event series, IN OUR NATURE: QUEER WORK IN THE GARDEN!
Featuring Amanda Gunn, Dan Lau, Lauren Parker, Dena Rod, Sam Sax, and Mimi Tempestt
Presented in proud partnership with the San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
This is a free event (minus admission to the Garden for non-SF residents), but please RSVP at the link above
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, June 17 at 1pm for a Pride Month reading celebrating the rich and beautiful intersection of nature and queer identity.
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Garden of Fragrance, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Books by featured authors will be available for purchase.
Please bring blankets or chairs for sitting on the grass. Please be mindful of high chairs blocking others' view.
About the Authors
Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, as well as a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she works on poetry and Black pleasure. Her poems appear in Poetry, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Baffler, and her debut collection, Things I Didn't Do With This Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023.
Dan Lau (he/they) is a Chinese American poet raised on Munsee Lenape land also known as Queens, New York. A Kundiman fellow, he is the recipient of scholarships, grants, and residencies from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Willapa Bay AiR, and Caldera. His poems have been published in Generations, Cape Cod Review, Gesture, RHINO, CRATE, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and others. He is the former Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter, a queer journal and press. Currently, he resides on Ramaytush Ohlone land and has recently joined Everyday Impact Consulting team as an Associate Consultant where he will create lasting positive change for diverse communities.
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Autostraddle, and The Rumpus. Their debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Dena writes to illuminate their experiences in the Iranian American diaspora and queer communities. They're currently at work on their first novel. Connect with Dena at their website denarod.com
sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of PIG (2023, Scribner) and Yr Dead (2024, McSweeney's), as well as Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and 'Bury It' winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University.
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is forthcoming with City Lights in the Fall. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Interim Poetics, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Featuring Amanda Gunn, Dan Lau, Lauren Parker, Dena Rod, Sam Sax, and Mimi Tempestt
Presented in proud partnership with the San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
This is a free event (minus admission to the Garden for non-SF residents), but please RSVP at the link above
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, June 17 at 1pm for a Pride Month reading celebrating the rich and beautiful intersection of nature and queer identity.
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Garden of Fragrance, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Books by featured authors will be available for purchase.
Please bring blankets or chairs for sitting on the grass. Please be mindful of high chairs blocking others' view.
About the Authors
Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, as well as a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she works on poetry and Black pleasure. Her poems appear in Poetry, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Baffler, and her debut collection, Things I Didn't Do With This Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023.
Dan Lau (he/they) is a Chinese American poet raised on Munsee Lenape land also known as Queens, New York. A Kundiman fellow, he is the recipient of scholarships, grants, and residencies from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Willapa Bay AiR, and Caldera. His poems have been published in Generations, Cape Cod Review, Gesture, RHINO, CRATE, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and others. He is the former Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter, a queer journal and press. Currently, he resides on Ramaytush Ohlone land and has recently joined Everyday Impact Consulting team as an Associate Consultant where he will create lasting positive change for diverse communities.
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Autostraddle, and The Rumpus. Their debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Dena writes to illuminate their experiences in the Iranian American diaspora and queer communities. They're currently at work on their first novel. Connect with Dena at their website denarod.com
sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of PIG (2023, Scribner) and Yr Dead (2024, McSweeney's), as well as Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and 'Bury It' winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University.
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is forthcoming with City Lights in the Fall. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Interim Poetics, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Join us on Saturday, June 17th at 1pm for the latest installment of our Books on the Garden event series, IN OUR NATURE: QUEER WORK IN THE GARDEN!
Featuring Amanda Gunn, Dan Lau, Lauren Parker, Dena Rod, Sam Sax, and Mimi Tempestt
Presented in proud partnership with the San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
This is a free event (minus admission to the Garden for non-SF residents), but please RSVP at the link above
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, June 17 at 1pm for a Pride Month reading celebrating the rich and beautiful intersection of nature and queer identity.
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Garden of Fragrance, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Books by featured authors will be available for purchase.
Please bring blankets or chairs for sitting on the grass. Please be mindful of high chairs blocking others' view.
About the Authors
Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, as well as a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she works on poetry and Black pleasure. Her poems appear in Poetry, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Baffler, and her debut collection, Things I Didn't Do With This Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023.
Dan Lau (he/they) is a Chinese American poet raised on Munsee Lenape land also known as Queens, New York. A Kundiman fellow, he is the recipient of scholarships, grants, and residencies from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Willapa Bay AiR, and Caldera. His poems have been published in Generations, Cape Cod Review, Gesture, RHINO, CRATE, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and others. He is the former Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter, a queer journal and press. Currently, he resides on Ramaytush Ohlone land and has recently joined Everyday Impact Consulting team as an Associate Consultant where he will create lasting positive change for diverse communities.
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Autostraddle, and The Rumpus. Their debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Dena writes to illuminate their experiences in the Iranian American diaspora and queer communities. They're currently at work on their first novel. Connect with Dena at their website denarod.com
sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of PIG (2023, Scribner) and Yr Dead (2024, McSweeney's), as well as Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and 'Bury It' winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University.
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is forthcoming with City Lights in the Fall. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Interim Poetics, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Featuring Amanda Gunn, Dan Lau, Lauren Parker, Dena Rod, Sam Sax, and Mimi Tempestt
Presented in proud partnership with the San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
This is a free event (minus admission to the Garden for non-SF residents), but please RSVP at the link above
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, June 17 at 1pm for a Pride Month reading celebrating the rich and beautiful intersection of nature and queer identity.
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Garden of Fragrance, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Books by featured authors will be available for purchase.
Please bring blankets or chairs for sitting on the grass. Please be mindful of high chairs blocking others' view.
About the Authors
Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, as well as a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she works on poetry and Black pleasure. Her poems appear in Poetry, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Baffler, and her debut collection, Things I Didn't Do With This Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023.
Dan Lau (he/they) is a Chinese American poet raised on Munsee Lenape land also known as Queens, New York. A Kundiman fellow, he is the recipient of scholarships, grants, and residencies from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Willapa Bay AiR, and Caldera. His poems have been published in Generations, Cape Cod Review, Gesture, RHINO, CRATE, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and others. He is the former Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter, a queer journal and press. Currently, he resides on Ramaytush Ohlone land and has recently joined Everyday Impact Consulting team as an Associate Consultant where he will create lasting positive change for diverse communities.
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Autostraddle, and The Rumpus. Their debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Dena writes to illuminate their experiences in the Iranian American diaspora and queer communities. They're currently at work on their first novel. Connect with Dena at their website denarod.com
sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of PIG (2023, Scribner) and Yr Dead (2024, McSweeney's), as well as Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and 'Bury It' winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University.
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is forthcoming with City Lights in the Fall. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Interim Poetics, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
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