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🩵quarterly queens reading series curated by @jakets 🩵
next reading 9/19 @theworldsboroughbookshop

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our fourth queens reading series event in the books 💖 where the wind and the streets functioned as asmr and we had to plug the mic back in via adrian standing on a chair. perfect weather to listen to illustrious transformative poetry xo

ty to our readers
@hannah.nahar @itsnaominotniomi @car1ara @bootcutkhakis @sreshthasen @persimmonicecream
& our home space @theworldsboroughbookshop 💖 check out the mural by bonnie !! by @queensreading

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Welcome to the fourth Queens Reading Series Event — ~❀poetry❀~ edition with some brilliant poets and writers.

The readers are:

Hannah Lee Nahar is a writer and teaching artist. Their work is published in Best New Poets, No, Dear, West Branch, Salt Hill, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. They live in Brooklyn.

Naomi Shuyama-Gómez is a writer based in the greater NYC area, on ancestral and unceded Munsee Lenape land. Her fiction and poetry appear in EcoTheo Review, Meniscus Literary Journal, The Boiler, Joyland, Denver Quarterly, The Margins, Gulf Coast Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and the minnesota review among others.

c. melín lara (a.k.a Car Lara) is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer of Mexican and Honduran heritage, born and living in Queens, NYC on Lenapehoking land. Their multilingual work explores transculturality and mythic-domestic entanglements through translation play, formal experiments with typographical symbols and asemic transliterations.

Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. His debut poetry collection, The Ninth Island, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press on February 9, 2027. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Alaska Quarterly Review, either/or magazine, Voicemail Poems and other publications. Andrew lives in Queens and is a New York City public school teacher.

Sreshtha Sen is a poet from Delhi. They studied Literatures in English from Delhi University, completed their MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, and their PhD at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Their work can be found published or forthcoming in Apogee, bitch media, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, Hyphen Magazine, Kenyon Review, The Margins, Mcsweeney’s, Rumpus and elsewhere. They live in Jackson Heights.

Holly Zhou is a poet and mixed-media artist from the California desert, the unceded territory of the Cahuilla and Mojave peoples. Holly’s poetry and prose has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Seventh Wave & elsewhere. When not writing, they can be found exploring rocks by the ocean or in the mountains. poster of queens reading series taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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@queensreading will be at @poetrysocietyny NYC Poetry Festival on Governor's Island 🛳
join us to listen to these brilliant poets saturday, july 18 @ 5:30pm. we will be on the beckett stage!

🌹presenting the readers🌹

Aishvarya Arora is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer from Queens, New York. They’re the author of Mr. Time (Gold Line Press, forthcoming 2026). Their writing has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, The Brooklyn Rail, and Foglifter, among other publications. Find them online at coolslug.com.

c. melín lara a.k.a Car Lara, is a Queens, NYC (Lenapehoking) born multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer of Mexican and Honduran heritage. A recipient of the 2024–25 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellowship at the Poetry Project and winner of the 2025 Palette Poetry Prize, their bilingual work explores transculturality and mythic-domestic entanglements by way of translation play, verses shaped by typographic symbols and asemic transliterations. Believing in a poetry-art intersection, they also integrate the mediums of ceramics, collage, illustration, and occasionally, sonic performance into their practice. Their work has appeared in Fine Print Press, Noir Sauna, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and is forthcoming in ANMLY, petrichor and SUDS.

Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes, and is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. His debut poetry collection, The Ninth Island, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring 2027. Andrew lives in Queens and is a public school teacher in New York City.

Natalie Zhao is a Queens-based poet, Reiki Master, and nurse. She enjoys writing on themes of love, loss, and womanhood. She has been sharing her poetry through spoken word since 2020 and hosts journaling workshops in NYC. taken in Governor's Island by @queensreading

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thank you to everyone who joined us for a reading & discussion on desire @theworldsboroughbookshop. so grateful to our readers who wow-ed us with their brilliance and insights on desire: @xt_xt_xty making us interrogate what baby voices in relationships are actually obscuring😭, @mia.arias.tsang reading from her book "Fragments of Wasted Devotion" and queer heartbreak💘, @jasminsandelson's brilliant piece in @sewaneereview "submersions" that gripped us, and @gregorspamsa reading from "S_MMER CR_SH" from @sarabandebooks among her other work!

Some takeaways include:
- wanting more books / stories where desire is a force for positive change
- is it better to be desired or to desire?
- what are the structural forces undergirding the desires that we have?

Also thanks to @feeldco for sponsoring our after party @jia_bardownstairs where we continued our conversations.

We raised $130 for Immigrant Defense Network - thank you for contributing ❤️
"The Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) – based in Minnesota is a growing, statewide network of 90+ nonprofits, grassroots groups, and advocates – developing new rapid response and movement building strategies through deep collaboration and coordination." taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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Meet the readers for Desire Notes:

Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer in NYC whose work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and virtual performance.

Christina McCausland is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Majuscule, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast, and The Cut, among other publications.

Jasmin Sandelson is the author of My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood (University of California Press, 2023). Her essays appear in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, The Georgia Review, Longreads, and Hobart. Jasmin has a Ph.D. in sociology and an MFA in creative nonfiction, and her work has been supported by the Axinn Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Mia Arias Tsang is a writer based in New York City. Her work explores themes of queer desire, intimacy, and disconnect. Her first collection, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION, is out now with Quilted Press. She lives in Queens with her cat, Peanut, and is working on a novel. by @queensreading

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Next week! Updated flyer! Join us for the 3rd Queens Reading series event: Desire Notes. We will hear from our brilliant readers followed by a conversation. Then join us at the afterparty @jia_bardownstairs .

Please RSVP at bit.ly/desirenotes or 🔗 in bio. by @queensreading

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u all showed up and out xo what a cozy time listening to our brilliant readers @magik_dyke @_daniola @annietangent @nicolegzhao as the rain pattered on outside creating such a cozy atmosphere. thank u as always to our favorite bookstore @theworldsboroughbookshop for hosting us ❤️ as the world continues to rage on - keep creating IRL connections that keep us in touch with each other and our art - keep fighting against the jadedness and organize - forget perfection be messy and play xo

next reading tbd but likely in february? reach out if anything ❤️‍🔥😽 taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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Meet the readers for the 2nd Queens Reading Series: Friendship edition happening on November 9th at 2pm @theworldsboroughbookshop

@nicolegzhao
@magik_dyke
@anothermishap
_daniola
@annietangent

RSVP at
bit.ly/queensreading2 or link in bio ❤️ taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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actually so excited about this one. my friends are in town and honestly what is a reading other than group of friends having fun together?

the second @queensreading event is about friendship, new & old. come and hear from famous poets and writers in the best borough. special thanks to @theworldsboroughbookshop for hosting us ❤️

RSVP link in bio:
https://bit.ly/queensreading2

poster design by @anothermishap taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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Thank you all so much for coming to the first Queens Reading Series @theworldsboroughbookshop on Saturday ☀️ The sunset hit at the perfect time and we got to hear from our amazing readers.
Look out for the next one in the fall and if you are interested in partnering or reading, send me an email at julieaekim[at]gmail.com taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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the weather gods had different plans for us but the show goes on. the first queens reading series kick off event is tomorrow, saturday august 2nd at 6pm! (note date AND time change bc we're chaotic like that)

come eat momo's, listen to some words, and bask in the cool weather on the streets of queens with us @theworldsboroughbookshop .

rsvp here at link in bio plz or bit.ly/queensreading taken in The World's Borough Bookshop by @queensreading

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due to the weather advisory and impending storm, the event has been postponed to Saturday 7/2 at 6pm @theworldsboroughbookshop 🩵☔️ see you then loves! by @queensreading

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