BETTER OFF READ: It's About Time

Out in the Open, Everyone's Books, & Brooks Memorial Library present:

BETTER OFF READ

It's About Time: readings & conversations with Nico Amador, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and Stephanie Burt

Join us 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 event space in downtown Brattleboro (former First Proof Press space). There will be soup, bread, discussion, books for sale, and more.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This program is supported by a Brattleboro Town Arts Fund grant.

NICO AMADOR is a writer and educator from San Diego, currently based in Vermont and Provincetown. Informed by his involvement in movements for social change, his poetry is interested in acts of radical imagination, place, and belonging.

CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH is a poet, professor, and the author of three poetry collections, 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,"queerly messy" selection of the journals of writer/painter/activist Red Jordan Arobateau, a crucial yet undersung figure in San Francisco trans queer cultures.

STEPHANIE BURT is a poet, literary critic, professor, and author of 14 books, including We Are Mermaids—a poetry collection “living in the trans present and future.” Burt's groundbreaking anthology Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall won the 2025 New England Book award and has been acclaimed as "not just a guide to queer poetry, but a new way of thinking about beauty, passion, and the passage of time."