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  TODAYS GAY & LESBIAN EVENTS

Sunday August 12th

Fatimah Asghar If They Come For Us Poetry Reading
6:00pm

For the release party for Fatimah Asghar's new poetry collection If They Come For Us, Fatimah will be joined by Rachel "Raych" Jackson, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Jose Olivarez. Fatimah Asghar is the writer of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls, and her work has appeared in Poetry and BuzzFeed Reader, among others. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective, a Kundiman Fellow, and author of the chapbook After. In 2011, she created REFLEKS, a spoken word poetry group in Bosnia and Herzegovina while on a Fulbright studying theater in post-genocidal countries. In 2017 she was the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Rachel "Raych" Jackson is an educator, poet, and playwright. Her latest play, Double Date premiered in the 9th annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival in June of 2018. Her work has been published by many-including Poetry and the Rumpus. Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar, which was a finalist for both a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Not Here. A queer Vietnamese American poet, Hieu is a Kundiman fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle magazine. His work has also appeared in the Guernica, Ninth Letter, the Paris-American, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis. Jose Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the co-author of the book of poems Home Court, and the co-host of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. He is a graduate of Harvard University and is the marketing manager at Young Chicago Authors. A winner of a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship and a Bronx Recognizes Its Own award, his work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets, poets.org, and Hyperallergic, among other places. He is from Calumet City and lives in Chicago. His first book, Citizen Illegal, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.


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5233 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
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