LGBTQ History Month Virtual Poetluck

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) proudly presents a special edition virtual Poetluck in celebration of LGBTQ History Month. It will take place on Thursday, October 15, at 6:30 p.m. CST and will celebrate the literary accomplishments of LGBTQ alumni and friends of WCDH. Readers include Joss Barton, William Jack Sibley, Kai Coggin, Debbie Browne, Patricia Evans Cox, Jonathan Harper, and Stephen Chan.

Joss Barton is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhood from historical, political, and pop-cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and always disco. She currently writes and resides in Saint Louis, Missouri. Joss Barton will read excerpts from her latest long-form poem “The Summer I Got Bit,” an epic transsexual breakup poem that charts the death of America’s dreams of death…