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Reading Friday in LOS ANGELES omg

Queer talent so chunky you can eat it with a fork—but
use a spoon to get every drop!
Queer, Kewl, and Cultured!
FRIDAY, March 9, at 8 pm

A night of stunning performances by queer West Coast
poets, musicians and actors.
Tribal Café, 1651 W. Temple St., #A, Los Angeles, CA.,
90026-5026

Echo Park welcomes San Francisco’s fabulous Cindy
Emch, as well as Alison de la Cruz, Darrah Dejour,
Trystan Angel Reese, and Ryka Aoki de la Cruz! This
event is part of a continuing effort to bring local
and nationally known queer, women, and ethnically
diverse artists to the Echo Park community. We’re
going literary tonight, with some of the most
thought-provoking performers and writers in the city
and beyond! The night’s performers include:

Cindy Emch, emchy is a poet, performer, DJ, curator,
and all around community building hell raiser who
wants to rock your socks off. She has published five
chapbooks, has written for the Hillgirlz.com blog, a
variety of film and pop culture mags and has been
published in Lodestar Quarterly. She has also featured
at K'vetsch, Varnish and other neato places and is
founder of the Queer Open Mic which makes its home at
the Three Dollar Bill Café at the San Francisco LGBT
Community Center.

Alison M De La Cruz is a multidisciplinary
community-based artist and cultural organizer. She has
performed her poetry, dance and solo theatrical work
throughout the country at venues such as the Center
Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, David Henry
Hwang Theatre, Highways Performanc Space, Northwest
Asian American Theatre, Asian Arts Initiative, and
Bindlestiff Studio. She is currently writing the book
and lyrics for a new musical which she presented as
part of the 2006 Reading Series for the David Henry
Hwang Writers' Institute at East West Players.

Darrah de jour’s work has been published by Lodestar
Quarterly, Alyson Books (My Lover, My Friend),
InSightOut Books (ISO), We'Moon (2006),
butchdykeboy.com, Doorknobs and BodyPaint
(www.iceflow.com), and others. Her monthly editorial
column, "Femme in the City," premiered in the July
2006 issue of dot Newsmagazine and can be read online
at: www.dotnewsmagazine.com in the Los Angeles
section.

Trystan Angel Reese (bio coming soon!)

Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is a writer, performer, and
composer who has recently appeared at the National
Queer Arts Festival, Ladyfest South 2007, Atlanta
Pride, UCLA’s OutCRY, and Santa Cruz Pride. Ryka was
keynote speaker at UC Santa Barbara’s 2005 Pride Week
and was the inaugural performer for San Francisco
Pride’s first ever Transgender Stage. Ryka’s work
appears in Girlchick.com, Grand Street, FEM Magazine,
the Southern Poetry Review, Lodestar Quarterly, and
Tsur. She has work forthcoming in the anthology Coming
Out of the Closet Again: Queer Women on Loving Men
(Suspect Thoughts Press). She has also worked with the
American Association of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb
Survivors, and two of the compositions have been
adopted by the group as its official “Songs of Peace.”
She has a third-degree black belt in Kodokan Judo and
is a professor of English at Santa Monica College.

The cover for this special night is $5. All proceeds
will go to the artists. For more information, please
contact ryka aoki de la cruz at rykaryka@yahoo.com.

Coming in May

"Literary Gumbo" for the Soul: 5th Annual Saints and Sinners LGBTIQ Literary Festival to be held May 10-13, 2007, New Orleans

Five years ago, Paul Willis had a vision of LGBTIQ authors coming together for a weekend to celebrate Queer Literature, build community, and raise money for NO/AIDS, New Orleans’ AIDS Outreach organization. This May10-13, the 5th annual Saints and Sinners LGBTIQ Literary Festival will take place in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

 

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The list of this year’s presenters includes authors, editors, and representatives from various presses—a regular who’s-who of queer literature. Join, among others, authors:

Dorothy Allison, Toni Amato, Cheryl B., Laura Baumbach, Andrew W.M. Beierle, Anthony Bidulka, Kathleen Bryson, Abha Dawesar, Abby Denson, Jolee Dupre, Cindy Emch, Amie M. Evans, Catherine Friend, Jewelle Gomez, Jim Grimsley, JD Guildford, Aaron Hamburger, Tara Hardy, Victor Hawkins, Trebor Healey, Greg Herren, Ruby Kane, Thomas Keith, Jeff Mann, William J. Mann, Val McDermid, Rich Merritt, Ian Philips, Martin Pousson, JM Redman, Gary Richards, Jeffrey Round, Robert Taylor, Jim Tushinski, Greg Wharton, Elizabeth Whitney, and Kevin Winge. In addition, Author Nancy Garden will be joining us to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the controversial novel Annie On My Mind.

 

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