Authors Ellen Orleans, Frankie Rollins and Teré Fowler-Chapman will be reading from their respective new works. Ellen is also an assemblage artist, devotee of carousels and kayaking, waterfalls and waterfowl. Frankie Rollins has worked 41 different jobs in her desire to live a life that centers writing. Teré Fowler-Chapman BFA, CLC, PRC, is a Black trans poet, educator, and certified life and recovery coach based in Denver, with roots in Tucson and Bossier City. Read more…

Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications.

Readings:
Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Lisa Birman,
Erin Michelle Gibes, Alex Miller, Ahja Fox

Visual Art:
Casey Niccoli 

Music:
Max Davies

Tiny SPOON presents work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, our inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate.

SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic!  18+. 

Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, her fierce energy and rapid fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature. Read more…

lauren samblanet (they/she) is a hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Cass Eddington is a trans poet, educator, artist, and ecological landscaper. Read more…

Hillary Leftwich will read from her new book, Saint Dymphna's Playbook.

Candace R. Nunag will read from her book A Solar Flare.
Hanna Rose Shell will screen a new film from her residency at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX &  Shame Radiant.

Bloody Handsome: Menstruation Poems
Curated by Aimee Herman

Aimee Herman (they/them) is the author of the novel, “Everything Grows” (Three Rooms Press) and two full length books of poems, “meant to wake up feeling” (great weather for MEDIA) and “to go without blinking” (BlazeVOX books), in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books).  Aimee is a queer writer and educator and a founding member alongside David Lawton in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox.

More details forthcoming.