East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the next author event in our series

HISTORY REVEALED

QUEER VOICES

Thursday, August 1, 2019, 7pm

Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota’s most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country.

In this volume, published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living, loving, working, learning, playing, reflecting, knowing, inventing, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability. 

Join us for readings by contributors Stephanie Chrismon, Bronson Lemer, Nasreen Mohamed, Michael Kiesow Moore, and William Reichard.

Stephanie Chrismon received an MFA from Hamline University and was a 2016–17 Loft Mentor Series winner in creative nonfiction and a 2015 Givens Foundation Emerging Writers’ Mentor Program fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Root, and her novel Bright City (under the name dc edwards) was published in 2017.

Bronson Lemer is the author of The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq. His work has appeared in Blue Earth Review, the Reykjavik Grapevine, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. He lives in St. Paul.

Nasreen Mohamed, a queer, gender-nonconforming Muslim born in Tanzania, calls the Twin Cities his home. As a Josie R. Johnson award recipient for his social justice and human rights effort at the University of Minnesota, Nasreen centers his writing in his third-world perspective, understanding that resistance is survival, truth is a lived experience, and liberation is another word for love.

Michael Kiesow Moore is the award-winning author of the poetry collection What to Pray For. His work has appeared in several books and journals, he founded the Birchbark Books Reading Series, and he dances with the Ramsey’s Braggarts Morris Men.

William Reichard is an author, editor, and educator. His sixth poetry collection, The Night Horse: New and Selected Poems, was published by Brighthorse Books in 2018.

There will be books available for purchase. 

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