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8.18.23 | catherine chen, andriniki mattis, renia white.

you don’t want to miss this one. 🎟️ link where the links are 🙏🏾 pull up!

“This refreshing debut gathers its power by exploring the overlaps between gender, sex, language, and nationality. Chan’s speaker draws on the language of the body and the details of an immigrant experience to reveal what cannot easily be categorized.” Excerpt from Publisher’s Weekly review

Wo Chan’s TOGETHERNESS is nothing less than a feat. Liminal, hyper aware, hilarious—this collection echoes widely [from Frank O’Hara to Dawn Lundy Martin] to help us (re)consider: what must we put aside, witness, withstand to approximate a kind of togetherness?

Swipe to read an excerpt from this phenomenal collection & celebrate with us on SUNDAY, 7/16! Link where the links are 🙏🏾

“This refreshing debut gathers its power by exploring the overlaps between gender, sex, language, and nationality. Chan’s speaker draws on the language of the body and the details of an immigrant experience to reveal what cannot easily be categorized.” Excerpt from Publisher’s Weekly review

Wo Chan’s TOGETHERNESS is nothing less than a feat. Liminal, hyper aware, hilarious—this collection echoes widely [from Frank O’Hara to Dawn Lundy Martin] to help us (re)consider: what must we put aside, witness, withstand to approximate a kind of togetherness?

Swipe to read an excerpt from this phenomenal collection & celebrate with us on SUNDAY, 7/16! Link where the links are 🙏🏾

“This refreshing debut gathers its power by exploring the overlaps between gender, sex, language, and nationality. Chan’s speaker draws on the language of the body and the details of an immigrant experience to reveal what cannot easily be categorized.” Excerpt from Publisher’s Weekly review

Wo Chan’s TOGETHERNESS is nothing less than a feat. Liminal, hyper aware, hilarious—this collection echoes widely [from Frank O’Hara to Dawn Lundy Martin] to help us (re)consider: what must we put aside, witness, withstand to approximate a kind of togetherness?

Swipe to read an excerpt from this phenomenal collection & celebrate with us on SUNDAY, 7/16! Link where the links are 🙏🏾

& we’re back. 😊 kicking off our summer line-up with the ineffable @theillustriouspearl & @valeriehsiung 🙌🏾

SUNDAY, JULY 16 @ 4P! Pop out with us @grandchampsbk + @thewordischange will be on site for all your book needs. Ticket link = where the links go 🙏🏾 get yours today ✨

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City department of cultural affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

THIS WEEK! Happy to announce that NOMAD is partnering with Brooklyn College for “the inlet”—a series of readings & conversations connecting established queer poets to writers within the Brooklyn College community.

Today (Wednesday): Phillip B. Williams x Taylor Johnson

Friday (4/21): Angel Nafis x John Keene

CUNY students will be prioritized in attendance, but there are 10-15 spots open to the public for each reading! Comment below or DM for the registration link 🙌🏾

We’ll see you soon ✨

Join us Saturday, April 29 as we celebrate Tyriek White's debut novel, WE ARE A HAUNTING! We're kicking off spring right, y'all—pull up!

Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens born poet, whose people hail from Trinidad & Nigeria. Sons of Achilles, her debut book of poems, is out now through YesYes Books. You can currently find Nabila kicking it in Tuscaloosa.

Tyriek Rashawn White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Lit, a literary foundation which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora. He has received fellowships from Callaloo Writing Workshop and the New York State Writer's Institute, among other honors. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, WE ARE A HAUNTING (Astra House, 2023).

Get your tickets/books today—you know where! ❤️✨

ARTISTS AGAINST COP CITY is a call-to-action/initiative in solidarity with the Atlanta Forest Defense Fund. We invite you to pull up and show out for a night of poetry, music, and collaborative dreaming — featuring performances by @namelessnobodynowhere, @nia_is_enuf, and @musicmannkosi319.

Join us April 14th at the Astoria Food Pantry. This event starts at 7pm. Masks are encouraged. Donations are welcome.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 🌿
attorious renée augustin is a nonbinary (they/them), queer, performance poet, filmmaker, and educator from Wanamassa, NJ. Their work focuses on transformation and community, and their hope is for their art to serve as a catalyst in the liberation of all people from oppressive systems. Attorious received their poetry MFA at Rutgers University- Newark, the host of Lampblack’s Instagram Live Series, “The Inky Bulb” and is the Educational Development Director with EvoluCulture.

Renia White (she/her) is a poet and writing instructor originally from Maryland. Her first book (Casual Conversation, 2022) was selected for the BOA Editions, Ltd. Blessing the Boats series by series editor Aracelis Girmay. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MFA from Cornell and has since taught writing at Cornell University, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design (The New School). Her work has appeared in publications such as The Recluse, Southern Indiana Review, Slice, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is at work on her second book.

Nkosi Nkululeko’s work is published in Chess Life Online, Ploughshares, Poem-A-Day, Poet Lore, The Offing, Oxford Poetry, The Slowdown, and more. He is the winner of Michigan Quarterly Review’s Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets 2018. You can find Nkosi’s Square Poems in journals like ANMLY, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Nation. He is anthologized in The Best American Poetry Anthology, Bettering American Vol. 3, and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Nkosi is a chess, music, and poetry teacher from Harlem!

🚨 SUNDAY! 2.26! 6PM! We’re back with a new season of beauties, ready with some fierce offerings 🔥 link where the links are! Get your 🎟 today

Inam Kang is a poet and server from Michigan. His work can be found in The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry, AAWW’s The Margins, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me, and other journals and anthologies. He is the winner of the 2017 Winter Tangerine Award and the 2019 Gordon Square Review Poetry Contest. The winner of a Pushcart Prize, he is also a Tin House Summer Workshop alumnus with experiencing teaches students of all ages.

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living in the Gulf Coast. She is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically minded. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave

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This Sunday, 12/11, join @nomadreadings on IG Live for our final, SOLD OUT reading of 2023. @ccontourr and @keiyaa will come together for their first public poetry reading, which we’re absolutely honored to host in the space. Tbh, this is *already* the highlight of my year—let’s make it yours too 🙌🏾 see you online!

[++ if you haven’t checked out Onwards or Forever, Ya Girl? PULL. UP.]

This one is special, y’all.

There are many words that can describe—but never contain—the majesty of this human. My eternal spades partner, sister in wine & all things sacral, a tremendously gifted poet…the list continues. Now, for his most *recent* title…DEBUT AUTHOR Luther Hughes joins @nomadreadings this weekend! The ineffable Ladan Osman rounds out our lineup for what will be a fantastic evening.

Luther Hughes is the author of the debut poetry collection, A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022), and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), recommended by the American Library Association. He is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary organization for queer writers of color, and co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast. Recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, his writing has been published in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Orion, and more. He was born and raised in Seattle, where he currently lives.

Come celebrate with us on Saturday, November 5 & pick up your copy of A Shiver in The Leaves! Ticket link in bio ❤️

“in the last days, we found certainty where we
could. we saw the end of reason,
hope became the only
intimacy.”

Quite simply, S*an Henry-Smith is a world builder. In their poems, their photography—every medium they approach feels rendered by a discerning, intimate, playful hand. Their first collection “Wild Peach” (2020) is a listener—a hybrid text doing the imaginative work to show us what we *could* mean when we say ‘care’.

Only two more days until we return! Grab a 🎟 (bio), come through & celebrate our beloved Virgo queens 👑 this THURSDAY, 9/29 🙌🏾