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Friday, April 22 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm
An Evening of Queer Poetry featuring Chen Chen

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Please join us for a reading and discussion featuring three highly talented poets Chen Chen, Tobias Wray, and Rajiv Mohabir. The writers will read from their collections and discuss the state of queer poetry today, showing us how they fit within this ever-growing poetic landscape. These three poets all write with themes of masculinity, family, identity, and queerness using their distinct personal experiences to craft poignant poems that leave a lasting impact on their readers. You will not want to miss this evening of poetry!
We would like to thank the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture for hosting us for this event.

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Speakers
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Chen Chen

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The collection was also a finalist... Read More →
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Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir ANTIMAN (Restless Books 2021) received the 2019 Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize. He is also the author of three books of poetry including Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize... Read More →
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Tobias Wray

Tobias Wray’s debut collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man (CSU Poetry Center, 2021), won the 2020 Lighthouse Poetry Series Competition. Poems and other writing have found homes in Blackbird, Bellingham Review, The Adroit Journal, Meridian, The Georgia Review, and in... Read More →



Friday April 22, 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA 99201, USA