Thomas Glave and Dorothea Smartt Author Reading and Poetry Performance Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 7pm Fully Booked. Booking for this event is now closed.
About Thomas Glave
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THOMAS GLAVE is an O. Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2000. He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005), The Torturer’s Wife (finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award, 2008). His most recent work has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and in the anthologies Kingston Noir, Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, and Who’s Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners. Glave has been the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Among the Bloodpeople: Politics & Flesh is his latest book.
About Dorothea Smartt
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DOROTHEA SMARTT, poet, live artist and literary activist, described as a 'Brit-born Bajan international’, her work typically bridges the islands of Britain and Barbados, effortlessly shuttling between local and global scenes as it weaves a diasporic web. She is the author of two poetry collections, Connecting Medium and Ship Shape, [Peepal Tree Press], and featured in several anthologies and journals – most recently Flicker & Spark International Queer Anthology [Lowbrow Press, 2013] and the “Poetry Review” [Winter, 2012]. Her poems were recently added to the Poetry Archive www.poetryarchive.org. She is Associate Editor with “Scarf” magazine, Associate Poetry Editor of “SABLELitmag”, and guest co-editor of SABLE’s forthcoming LGBTQI issue [2014]. She is Co-Director of Inscribe, a national writer development programme for writers of African & Asian descent.
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