David Shapiro, Samuel Ace, and Trace Peterson will be reading December 12th at 7 pm. Reading without nets, reading with sunshine or not, reading with everything. David Shapiro is an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was published when he was just eighteen.
Samuel Ace is the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex, Home in three days., Don’t wash., and most recently Stealth, with Maureen Seaton. He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and winner of an Astraea Lesbian Writer’s Fund Prize. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Eoagh, Spiral Orb, Kenyon Review, Rhino, The Volta, 3:am, Versal, Trickhouse, The Collagist, Mandorla, The Bakery, and others. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.
Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (2007) and Violet Speech (2011), and is Editor / Publisher of EOAGH. Peterson is also co-editor with TC Tolbert of the forthcoming anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and co-editor with Gregory Laynor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings (forthcoming). From 2009-2012, Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer writing and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.