The Publishing Triangle presents Raíces & Resistencia: A Latinx LGBTQ+ Poetry Night, hosted by Emanuel Xavier. Join us on Saturday, September 27 at 3 PM at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for an afternoon of powerful poetry celebrating Latinx Heritage Month.
Featured poets: Emanuel Xavier, viento izquierdo ugaz, Joshua Garcia, Yoseli Castillo Fuertes, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes.
This event is free and open to the public. Books by the authors will be available for purchase, and a signing will follow the reading. Don’t miss this vibrant gathering of poetry, community, and celebration.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
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Participants’ biographies:
Emanuel Xavier is a poet, author, and activist who came of age in the New York City ballroom scene and founded the legendary Glam Slam, a fusion of spoken word and drag ball culture. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Pier Queen, If Jesus Were Gay, Love(ly) Child, and the forthcoming Still, We Are Sacred. Recognized as an LGBTQ+ Icon by the Equality Forum, his work has earned honors from the Lambda Literary Awards, the International Latino Book Awards, and the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow Books list.
viento izquierdo ugaz (they/he) is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, poet, and language justice worker. Through writing, photography, and moving image they address how the burden of imposed migration has woven its threads into the visual tapestry of their lineage. They are a co-organizer of BODYHACK, a NY mutual aid happy hour for trans & non-binary people, and TRANSMISSION, NYC’s first trans music festival. Izquierdo is a 2020–21 Poetry Project Curatorial Fellow and a 2021–22 Leslie Lohmann Museum and EmergeNYC Fellow. Their first chapbook is Estoy Tristeza (No Dear, 2018).
Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His poetry has appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University and an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.
Yoseli Castillo Fuertes is a bilingual Afro-Dominican lesbian poet, educator, activist, and mom. A Cave Canem alum, her work has been featured in anthologies across New York, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Santo Domingo. Yoseli is the author of De eso sí se habla / Of That, I Speak (2012) and coeditor of the anthology Pájaros, lesbianas y queers, ¡a volar! (2025). She is dedicated to creating spaces that uplift queer, immigrant, and Afro-Caribbean voices.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American poet and playwright whose work explores Black and Latinx histories, migration, and memory. He is the author of the award-winning collections Migrant Psalms and Stepmotherland, with poems in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, and more. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his honors include the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, an International Latino Book Award, the CP Cavafy Poetry Prize, and others.