BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:148089@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260730T163302Z DTSTART:20260819T190000Z DTEND:20260819T203000Z SUMMARY:Holly by grace (ge) gilbert (with Daniel McCarty &\\; Lisa Su mme) DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to celebrate local poet\\, artist\\, and educ ator\\, grace (ge) gilbert\\, and their debut\\, Holly! Holly is a work o f art\\, assembling hybrid collage\\, poetry\\, and memoir. We are thrill ed to host a special and dynamic event in celebration of this project. gr ace will be joined by opening reader\\, Daniel McCarty\\, and will be in conversation with local poet and editor\\, Lisa Summe.\\ngrace (ge) gilbe rt’s Holly merges poetry\\, memoir\\, and visual art in an effort to re create the author’s grandmother\\, who was murdered in her home in 1976 \\, and to make sense of their ensuing relationship with their father\\, who found his mother’s body when he was eleven years old. Having never been told explicitly by their parents about her murder\\, gilbert pieces together her grandmother’s story through fragments\\, ephemera\\, histo ry\\, and the imaginary\\, looking past the spectacle of the murdered wom an and into the things that come\\, like ripples\\, after.\\nDANIEL MCCAR TY is an undergraduate student at Pitt studying biology\\, with plans to pursue a career in healthcare. Outside of his major\\, he enjoys writing and learning Spanish and playing banjo\\, fiddle\\, and singing in the Pi tt Bluegrass Ensemble. Around Pittsburgh\\, Daniel is active in the blueg rass and old-time scene\\, and volunteers with the organization Preventio n Point Pittsburgh. You can often find him riding his bike to work and sc hool\\, hiking\\, and reading.\\nLISA SUMME is the author of Tell Me Twic e (YesYes Books\\, 2027) and Say It Hurts (YesYes Books\\, 2021). She ear ned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati\\, and an M FA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcomi ng in Bat City Review\\, Foglifter\\, Muzzle\\, Salamander\\, Salt Hill\\ , Underblong\\, West Branch\\, and elsewhere. She is currently associate poetry editor for Brink. You can find her running\\, playing baseball\\, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh\\, PA\\, or at lisasumme.com.\\ngr ace (ge) gilbert (they/them) is a poet\\, writer\\, and collage artist. t hey received their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 202 2\\, where they now teach. they are the author of Holly (YesYes Books\\, 2026)\\, a hybrid image and text book about the 1976 murder of their pate rnal grandmother\\, as well as three chapbooks. Recent work can be found in the Kenyon Review\\, the Iowa Review\\, the 2023 Best of the Net Antho logy\\, Pleiades\\, the Indiana Review\\, Ninth Letter\\, Adroit Journal\ \, and elsewhere. They teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at Brookl yn Poets\\, Minnesota Center for Book Arts\\, and other institutions. The y are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all.\\nSign u p for the livestream!\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/p ittsburgh/events/holly-by-grace-ge-gilbert-with-daniel-mccarty-038-lisa-s umme--2026-08-19 LOCATION:Pittsburgh URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/pittsburgh/events/holly-by-grace-ge-gilbert-with-daniel-mccarty-038-lisa-summe--2026-08-19 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR