BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T011425 CREATED:20161209T072300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161209T072300Z UID:248471-1488394800-1488402000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation | Sarah Dowling with Imani Sims DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Information on accessibility and getting to Hugo House can be found here. \n \nSeattle-based poet Sarah Dowling (DOWN\, Security Posture\, Birds & Bees) and poet\, educator\, and impresario Imani Sims join host and curator Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for the monthly reading series at Hugo House that seeks to explode boundaries so that critical engagement can thrive. Both writers will read from their work followed by an onstage Q&A with Sycamore. \n\nCONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES features two dynamic writers bridging genre\, style\, sensibility\, and all the markers of identity in queer lives. The event cross-pollinates spoken word with literary fiction\, poetic experimentation with creative nonfiction\, and hybrid work with narrative prose. \n“If you’re out at a literary event and you see Seattle author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\, you know you’ve made the right choice for the evening\,” writes Paul Constant in The Seattle Weekly. “But more than just a promising reading series\, what Bernstein Sycamore is doing with CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES is claiming a space to discuss queer issues in literature. [The series] is proof that there’s more to be said\, written\, and discussed about the state of queer writing in America…” \n\nSarah Dowling is the author of two books\, DOWN (Coach House\, 2014)\, and Security Posture (Snare\, 2009)\, which received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She has also published a chapbook\, Birds & Bees (TrollThread\, 2012)\, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals including Encyclopedia\, Windsor Review\, Line\, and Matrix. Sarah is an assistant professor at the University of Washington Bothell. \n\nImani Sims spun her first performance poem at the age of fourteen and has since then\, developed an infinitely rippling love for poetry in all its forms. She is a 2016 CityArtist Grant recipient\, Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas curator\, and Gay City Arts Fellow. As a Board Member for Earth Pearl Collective\, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe spaces for queer black women to be empowered through artistic collaborations\, social events\, and educational workshops. \n\nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, which won a Lambda Literary Award\, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/contagious-exchanges-queer-writers-conversation-sarah-dowling-imani-sims/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR