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SUMMARY:BETTER OFF READ: It's About Time
DESCRIPTION:Out in the Open\\, Everyone's Books\\, & Brooks Memorial Libr
 ary present:\\nBETTER OFF READ\\nIt's About Time: readings & conversation
 s with Nico Amador\\, Cameron Awkward-Rich\\, and Stephanie Burt\\nJoin u
 s for another sparkling evening of trans literature and conversation! In 
 partnership with Everyone’s Books and Brooks Memorial Library\\, Out in
  the Open is thrilled to host prize-winning poets Nico Amador\\, Cameron 
 Awkward-Rich\\, and Stephanie Burt at The DBA Garage\\, a beautiful new e
 vent space in downtown Brattleboro (former First Proof Press space). Ther
 e will be soup\\, bread\\, discussion\\, books for sale\\, and more. \\n*
  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*\\nThis program is supported by a Brattlebor
 o Town Arts Fund grant. \\n***\\nNICO AMADOR is a writer and educator fro
 m San Diego\\, currently based in Vermont and Provincetown. Informed by h
 is involvement in movements for social change\\, his poetry is interested
  in acts of radical imagination\\, place\\, and belonging. \\nCAMERON AWK
 WARD-RICH is a poet\\, professor\\, and the author of three poetry collec
 tions\\, including An Optimism— "a book that un-mutes possibility [and]
  re-imagines time\\,” winner of the 2026 Massachusetts Book Award. His 
 latest project\\, Time Also Will Make It Interesting\\, is an edited\\,"q
 ueerly messy" selection of the journals of writer/painter/activist Red Jo
 rdan Arobateau\\, a crucial yet undersung figure in San Francisco trans q
 ueer cultures.\\nSTEPHANIE BURT is a poet\\, literary critic\\, professor
 \\, and author of 14 books\\, including We Are Mermaids—a poetry collec
 tion “living in the trans present and future.” Burt's groundbreaking 
 anthology Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall won the 2025 N
 ew England Book award and has been acclaimed as "not just a guide to quee
 r poetry\\, but a new way of thinking about beauty\\, passion\\, and the 
 passage of time."\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/north
 ampton/events/better-off-read-it-s-about-time-2026-11-13
LOCATION:22 High St\\, Brattleboro\\, VT 05301-2845\\, United States
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/northampton/events/better-off-read-it-s-about-time-2026-11-13
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