Queer Cookies Poetry Reading
Monday, April 26, 2021
7:00 pm
VIRTUAL EVENT
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Queer Cookies is a poetry series, bake sale, and soon-to-be cookbook celebrating DMV-area LGBTQ+ poets. Join Queer Cookies creators, Regie Cabico and Tyler French along with Danielle Evennou, Malik Thompson, Micah the Poet, and Sunu Chandy for an evening of joy-filled, salty/sweet, and toothsome poetry. You’ll be the first to get a peek inside the cover of Queer Cookies Poetry Cookbook, which is filled with tasty poetry and custom-designed cookie recipes based on that poetry. Savor doubly salted cream cheese caramel brownie bites alongside a selection of haiku! Find the balance between tartness and sweetness while crewing on queer joy, inter-generational connection, and family-making. Mull over Sichuan peppercorn, strawberry, rosewater thumbprints and an out-of-this-world abecedarian.
Queer Cookies Poetry Cookbook and reading series is supported by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. ASL interpretation will be provided. This event will also be live-streamed on Queer Cookies Facebook page and recorded.
About the Queer Cookies Poets:
Danielle Evennou (she/her/hers) is a writer who grew up in suburban New Jersey. For over a decade, she has kept herself busy by hosting poetry readings, workshops, and open mics in Washington, DC. In 2016, she founded Slipform, a writing workshop that explores gender, sexuality, and formal poetic structures. Her poetry and memoir appear in apt, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dryland, and Split Lip Magazine. Her chapbook, DIFFICULT TRICK, is available from dancing girl press.
Malik Thompson is a Black queer man proud to be from D.C. A bookseller, anime fanatic, and workshop facilitator, Malik has worked with Split This Rock, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Moonlit DC as a workshop facilitator. He also organized the Poets In Protest poetry series at the Black queer owned bookstore Loyalty Bookstores. Malik’s work can be found inside of Split This Rock’s Poetry Database as well as the mixed media journal Voicemail Poems.
Micah the Poet is a writer, orator, poet, DJ, and community activist. Micah Powell has been an influential voice all over the country for over 15 years. He has been featured in the Washington Post, multiple anthologies, and magazines. He has performed with internationally known slam poets, musicians, and politicians as well as ment as well as mentored young poets and artists. Micah has worked with religious,government, and community organizations to create programs that empower the everyday person. His first poetry collection, Things No One Else Wants To Say, waspublished by Capturing Fire Press in 2020.
Sunu Chandy has performed poems and led creative writing workshops in a variety of settings for about 25 years. She completed her MFA in poetry at Queens College, CUNY in 2013. Her work can be found in Asian American Literary Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Poets on Adoption, Split this Rock’s The Quarry, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, and is forthcoming in The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Sunu has degrees from Earlham College(Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies) and Northeastern Law School. Sunu is also a civil rights attorney, and since August 2017 has served as the Legal Director for the National Women's Law Center.
