Schedule
Below is our reading / viewing schedule. If you need assistance obtaining a copy of any of the books from our list, we are happy to help you!
This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world.
Dear reader, It is with great joy that we bring you "Kiki—A Sky of Changing Lights." And who is Kiki, you might ask? Kiki is a queer monarch butterfly who loves to go to the discotheque to move her body, a mover su cuerpo. Kiki is also a yearning, un anhelo. Kiki is a movement, a constant becoming— our bodies blooming, shedding, becoming multiple— una comunidad floreciendo. Kiki es comadreo, Kiki is gossip, a smile shared in secrets. Here, Kiki is writings, thoughts, expressions, around the body, queering migration, belonging, home, the sky, our ever-changing bodies, its inner movements, a multi-sensing... Kiki is a persona channeled by a couple of Kikis here, and they wrote about waiting, a poem about dancing under the moonlight, a poem of memories of other forms, an egg, a caterpillar... an introduction, "Hola, soy Kiki :)". Kiki fluttered around and found herself seen in other writings collected here. A Kiki sensibility. Kiki kin. They are an offering for other Kikis, an ode to becoming, connecting to the earth with joy, con gozo, a bailar en la tierra y en el club.
This book is a project by Queerly community member Flor Flores. Available at the link below, use code “release” for $5 off courtesy of Flor. (thank you Flor)
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/kiki%E2%80%94a-sky-of-changing-lights1
Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body’s healing from a double mastectomy―in the wake of addiction and family dysfunction―these ambitious poems put new form to what’s been lost and gained. Candrilli ultimately imagines a joyful, queer future: a garden to harvest, lasting love, the insistent flamboyance of citrus.
