BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:264301@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260927T035946Z DTSTART:20260923T190000Z DTEND:20260923T203000Z SUMMARY:Les Portes by Meredith Nnoka DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the poetry collection Les Portes by Meredith Nnoka\\, with Ashley Keyser and Crissonna Tennison.\\nWinner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize\\, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich\\, and n amed a “\\;Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026”\\; by Ms. Magazine\\, Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root\\, recurs\ \, and reshapes itself across generations.\\nUnfolding in three movements –\\;Le D but\\, Le Pass \\, and Le Pr sent–\\;all of which rupt ure conventional domestic abuse narratives\\, and drawing heavily from zu ihitsu\\, ekphrasis\\, erasure\\, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm\\, these poems serve as radi cal meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caug ht in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment b ut as something restorative\\, collective\\, and deeply non-carceral.\\nI n her debut book\\, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: “\\;Where is the path forward / that ensures no recurrence?”\\ ; Rather than gesture toward resolution\\, Les Portes dwells inside this question\\, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning. \\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/chicago/events/les-por tes-by-meredith-nnoka-2026-09-23 LOCATION:chicagosocialbutterflies.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/chicago/events/les-portes-by-meredith-nnoka-2026-09-23 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR