A BRUXIST MANIFESTO with Gwendalynn Carlene Roebke & friends
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Join us on September 25th from 5-7pm MDT for a virtual reading in celebration of Gwendalynn Carlene Roebke's new book, A BRUXIST MANIFESTO. Gwendalynn will be joined by Brice Maiurro and Steven Dunn.
This event is FREE. Please register on this page; Zoom information can be found below and will be sent to you via email before the actual event. Please be patient with this process as we are all volunteers and it's a manual process! If you don't hear from us or have any questions, please send an email to Drea at [email protected]
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Gwendalynn Roebke starts a bruxist manifesto with “we”, and that tells us that we are welcomed, we belong. It also tells us that if you ain’t tryna make things better, you can’t escape this mess that the rest of us are in. I feel powerful reading this book, because Gwendalynn gives language to the impossible, which makes me feel ready, finna roar at all y’all. They remind us that “pressure, is, e v e r y t h i n g” while showing various pressures from the body to cultures, and applying their own pressure to counteract. Roebke gives us tools to stay alive, and thrive.
Steven Dunn, author of ‘Potted Meat’ and water and ‘power’
Gwendalynn is Black/multiracial, gender non conforming, they/them just doing their best to exist. They write and perform poems and have their first full length collection "A Bruxist Manifesto" being published by Really Serious Literature this year. Are they a poet? Debatable. Really they just want to write interesting things and design their own tattoos.
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Images courtesy of rlysrslit
Preorder A BRUXIST MANIFESTO here: https://rlysrslit.bigcartel.com/product/a-bruxist-manifesto-preorder-gwendalynn-roebke
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Topic: A BRUXIST MANIFESTO
Time: Sep 25, 2021 05:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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