April:
National Poetry Month
Poetry Reading: Gregg
Shapiro
Tuesday, April 24 -- 7:00pm
Gregg Shapiro: 77
We’re delighted to host the launch of
Chicago poet Gregg Shapiro’s newest poetry collection. Gregg Shapiro: 77, a
collection of autobiographical poems featuring each year in the decade of the
70s, charts the poet’s life from adolescence to coming into his own as a gay
man on the cusp of a new decade. Gregg Shapiro is the author of the poetry
collection Protection (2008). Shapiro is also an entertainment journalist whose
interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBT and mainstream
publications and websites. He lives in Chicago with his husband Rick Karlin and
their dogs Dusty and k.d. This is his first chapbook of poems.
Poetry Reading: Carmen
Alicia Murguia
Saturday, April 28 -- 7:00pm
Love!
Love!, poetry and a
Short Story by Carmen Alicia Murguia is about Carmen’s Love of Community, Love
of Women, Love of Self. Experience poems and a short story about the various
aspects of Love--from the craziness being in Love brings to finding closure with
Love as the guide.
Notable Authors Section
Back in 2008, Outwords Books creat e d a very special display featurin g a selection of the Notable LGBT writers since the beginning of the 20th Century. Having proved to be very popular, we've continued to keep the spotlight on such essential novelists as Oscar Wilde, Christopher Isherwood, Virginia Woolf, Sarah Waters and, of course, Marcel Proust.
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