RESCHEDULED - NEW DATE - LGBTQ+ Book Discussion: DEED by torrin a. greathouse

Looking to meet other LGBTQ+ folks? We meet the first Tuesday of every month to discuss an LGBTQ+ work. For June, we're discussing torrin a. greathouse's DEED, winner of the 2025 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Poetry Award. The Barbara Gittings Poetry and Literature Awards are given annually to English-language works that are of exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

From Wesleyan University Press: "Sprawling across art, eros, survival, myth, etymology, and musical touchstones from Bruce Springsteen to Against Me!, this new book both subverts and pays homage to the poetic canon, examining an artistic lineage that doesn't always love trans or disabled people back."

torrin a. greathouse (she/they) is an award-winning transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, and The Ragdale Foundation. She is the author of two collections, DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), winner of a 2025 Stonewall Book Award, and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

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