#takingtowater — Public Fediverse posts

Join us tomorrow at 6pm ET for an in-person reading and workshop with NC poet Jennifer Conlon! 🐸🌤️

"Jennifer Conlon’s 'Taking to Water' is the most transformative collection of poems I’ve read. When Conlon’s speaker says 'let there be life in me / in my own beginning' we are given a home in this affirmation of queer resilience, where self-fulfillment can stretch the landscape until the landscape agrees. Taking to Water captures the search for the ways the world could make room for us, 'make room / for my body & all / that comes with it.' Conlon has given us a sharper, better lyric to inhabit and demand the world with." —C.T. Salazar, author of "Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking"

After the reading, participants will have the opportunity to create their own self-glossary, which can be vulnerable and celebratory ✨

This free, in-person event has limited space, so please sign up through the link in our bio (or https://firestorm.coop/events/3095-taking-to-water-a-reading-and-workshop-with-jennifer-conlon.html)

#QueerSouth #QueerPoetry #QueerBooks #PoetryWorkshop #FeministBookstore #TakingToWater #FirestormCoop (-Esme)

Next month we're hosting NC poet Jennifer Conlon for a reading and workshop! In their debut collection, "Taking to Water," Conlon celebrates the survival of trans and nonbinary kids who live in places that don't allow them to thrive, turning their gaze toward the natural world that catalyzes dreams of possibility, transformation, and safety.

Using materials provided by the author, participants will be invited to write their own self-glossary—and optionally share it with others. This is a free, in-person event with limited space, so please sign up at https://firestorm.coop/products/20530-taking-to-water.html

#QueerSouth #QueerPoetry #QueerBooks #PoetryWorkshop #FeministBookstore #TakingToWater #FirestormCoop (- L)