Fair Weather Reading Series

w/Roger Bonair-Agard & Logan Phillips

Saturday, November 21, 2015
7pm (doors at 6:30)
lemonade and snacks served

Curator: Kristen E. Nelson
Location: outdoor courtyard
Description: This series celebrates LGBTQ writers, female writers, writers of color, emerging writers, and other underrepresented groups. Everyone is welcome to attend! We will hold readings once a month on Friday or Saturday nights and host occasional workshops taught by our readers at FLUXX up the block.

Sometimes there will be music. Sometimes there will be dancing. Sometimes there will be video. Sometimes there will be swimming. Sometimes there will be surprises. Sometimes there will be raffles. Sometimes there will be fancy food. Sometimes there will be fancy drinks. Sometimes it will rain and you should bring an umbrella. Sometimes it will be chilly and you should bring a blanket. It is called the Fair Weather Reading Series for all of these reasons and more.

Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow, and author of four collections of poetry, tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press, 2010), Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013) which was long listed for a National Book Award and won the Society of Midland Authors award for Poetry. He is co-founder of NYC's louderARTS Project and a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion. He has taught & featured extensively in universities, venues, and festivals throughout the world, and been published widely in poetry, essay, and fiction. He teaches Creative Writing at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and is writer in residence with Vision Into Art at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. He is Nina's father.

Logan Phillips works to create new opportunities for the intersection of poetry, social justice and wider society. As a bilingual poet, performer and DJ he tours his art throughout the United States, Latin America and beyond. After living in Mexico City (2006-2011), Phillips returned to his homeland to work on a diverse range of projects aimed at expanding the conversation on border identity. His debut full-length book of poems, Sonoran Strange, was published in January 2015 by Albuquerque’s West End Press.