Book Soup Reading, Q&A with Amy Gerstler

Join Steven Reigns on 12/3 at 6pm for a virtual reading of A Quilt for David and conversation with poet Amy Gerstler. Event is free and open to the public. More info HERE

Book Soup page: https://www.booksoup.com/event/steven-reigns

Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/steven-reigns-in

Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent books of poetry are Dearest Creature and Index of Women (both from Penguin Random House).

Steven Reigns is a poet, educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has edited four anthologies, and authored the collections Inheritance and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat. His newest collection A Quilt for David will be out by City Lights in September and is the product of ten years of research. Reigns created the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors, lectured and taught workshops around the country to queer youth and people living with HIV. He is touring The Gay Rub, an exhibition of rubbings from LGBT landmarks, facilitates the monthly Lambda Lit Book Club, and is at work on a new collection of poetry.