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🩵quarterly queens reading series curated by @jakets 🩵
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The party, celebrations and events continue into September. We are PACKED with something for everyone. From author conversations to book launches, community gatherings, music food and dancing events.

Want to discover your next favorite book? We got you
Want to listen to Queens writers? We got you
Want something with the kids? We got you
Learn something new? We got you

We have it all this month so save this post send it your friends make some plans some dates and come hang out with us!

Even gave you a a sneak peak into October!

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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

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This weeks events which include an amazing event that combines know your rights for parents and a fun activity for kids ran by @magicmesita !!! Bookclubs are meeting and discussing!! Zine workshop rescheduled , Meditation from local community member and of course our return of @queensreading !!

And a sneak peak into a musical event next week to raise money against ICE!

#queensevents @stanforcreators #standaretopost #queensbookclub

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FEBRUARY EVENTS! Potluck , movie night , author events , lunar new year celebrations, Bookclubs, art workshops, valentine day market and events for gal and pals or loved ones.

Come by and stay warm with community have fun eat read and be together! And create together. You can sign up through our link, eventbrite or our website. Can’t wait to see you !

If you saw the first time I posted no you didn’t @ghoulishgals thought my design was ugly so here’s a fresh one !! Almost got banned from posting 🤭

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winter break is over. it’s time to lock in. perfect timing for some Mia Evence to hit ur calendar :) bundle up its 🧱 out but my words will warm u right up..

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We have more November Events!!

@queensreading is back with Friendship Edition of readers! An awesome set of readers so make sure you stop by and enjoy and support Queens writers !

@separatingskies is also back with some art workshops to get creative at the start of the week! Making keychain zines workshop tickets come with drink and all the materials!

@afutureancient will be leading a poetry writing workshop for us as part of our writing series! Purely donation based workshops thanks to @poetswritersinc

And our second Tatreez workshop with @myturath make sure to sign up and learnt his beautiful skill !

All links to RSVP can be found on our website! #jacksonheights #openmic #artworkshops

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Two performances coming up: Sunday at 2pm I'm reading an excerpt from my memoir-in-progress at @theworldsboroughbookshop with @queensreading! Then next Friday 11/14 at 9pm I'll be telling another story for TALE at Under St. Mark's! Trying to get better at posting when I'm doing things, esp now that the election is done (hooray to Mayor Mamdani!) and I'm done with prepping for a medical procedure. Now to get to editing this draft for the reading Sunday 💀

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bookworms, writers, comic fans, zine-makers, Astoria has a group for you!

20 ways to read, write, and celebrate words this September, whether you’re more introvert inspiration or extrovert spark. 🐛 dive in, meet your people, and remember: together is where the magic happens.

special s/o to the gathering grounds 👏🏼 @astoriabookshop @31staveopenstreet, @heartofgoldastoria, @qedastoria, @bohemianbeergarden, @frescosgrandcantina, to name a few

spellcheck and groups we missed in the comments ✏️👀

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ITS OUR BIRTHDAY MONTHHH (and mine) !! We hit 2 years this month and it’s been an incredible time. I can’t wait to celebrate with you and see you all this month for our community and author events. We have a ton of ways we’re going to celebrate the two years with amazing merch drops, giveaways raffles, parties, food and more.

Stay tuned for our posts and more and please RSVP for these amazing events we have coming up !! Always stay tuned for more events coming up too!

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back in action in nueva yore. reading next week at hometown hero @theworldsboroughbookshop with some writers i deeply admire :) come thru. 7pm. lord knows i travel to brooklyn often enough for the “literary scene.” give the greatest borough a chance for once, yall 🖤

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We are in my favorite season and almost a month away from the 2 year anniversary and we have some heavy hitting events this month!! 🎉 July is stacked a! From bilingual singalongs to cheese writing, pigeon sculpting to amazing book talks I’ve been waiting for — we’ve got something for every reader, every age, and every vibe. We also starting our lecture series hosted by YOU with members of the community who want to share their knowledge or projects and this first is a screening and a queens reading series so after the beach make sure you come through!

RSVP for events on our website all links should be there if RSVP is required! And as always shout to @lalysuniverse who makes the flyers !

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