Pride Poetry Reading
Saturday, June 14, 2025
THIS EVENT IS CANCELED
& RESCHEDULED ON
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The 2025 Pride Poets-in-Residence reading features five of the most innovative and talented LGBTQ+ authors currently working in the DC region. AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, co-produces Los Bookis Podcast and manages Tintas DC, a monthly writer’s group for Latine poets and storytellers; Natalie E. Illum is a disability activist who competed on the National Poetry Slam circuit for five years; Dwayne Lawson-Brown cofounded DC’s longest running open mic series, Spit Dat; Saundra Rose Maley cofounded the Confluence Conference, the region’s major annual gathering of literary translators; and Chris Nealon is a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. Join us as they read new work, followed by a book signing and reception.
The 2025 Pride Poets-in-Residence reading features five of the most innovative and talented LGBTQ+ authors currently working in the DC region. AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, co-produces Los Bookis Podcast and manages Tintas DC, a monthly writer’s group for Latine poets and storytellers; Natalie E. Illum is a disability activist who competed on the National Poetry Slam circuit for five years; Dwayne Lawson-Brown cofounded DC’s longest running open mic series, Spit Dat; Saundra Rose Maley cofounded the Confluence Conference, the region’s major annual gathering of literary translators; and Chris Nealon is a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Join us as they read new work, followed by a book signing and reception.
This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Arts Club of Washington is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. located at 2017 I Street N.W., Washington D.C. 20006
