UCONN-Hartford Reading Peterson & Powell

Event:

Date:

April 11th, 2024.

Time:

4:00 PM

Location:

Hartford Times Bldg, 10 S Prospect St.

Contact:

Julie.Choffel@uconn.edu

Celebrate LGBTQ Poets

Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Her poetry book Since I Moved In was republished by Chax Press in 2019 in a revised edition. She is co-editor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax) and of the ground-breaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Peterson is the Editor/Publisher of EOAGH, a literary journal and small press that has won two Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UConn, Storrs.

m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica. Their debut full-length collection, DEAD GIRL CAMEO, is forthcoming from Random House in Summer 2025. An assistant professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UConn Stamford, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with them at www.mickpowellpoet.com

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