Last Perfectly Queer at Books Inc. Castro

The 2016 Pride Poetry Panel will be the last Perfectly Queer at Books Inc. Castro. Very sadly, the bookstore is closing in mid-June after 20 years in the gayborhood. Perfectly Queer continues however in July at Books Inc. Opera Plaza in San Francisco. But Monday, June 13, congregate one more time to the Castro to celebrate poetry and the joy of Queer books. Poets MK Chavez, Nico Peck, James J. Siegel and Jezebel Delilah X read from their latest chapbooks and poetry collections. Champagne and chocolate at 6:45pm. Readings begin at 7pm. A panel discussion on writing Queer poetry will follow the readings. Book sales and signing to support the poets. Make poetry profitable, y'all!  https://www.facebook.com/events/207796866274145/

Videos from Starting with 'A' now available on our Facebook page

I used to upload the individual videos here, but they frequently exceed the length limitations. From now on, I will just post our Facebook page link so that followers can view the videos that way. Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/perfectlyqueerreadings/

Starts with 'A'

One of our "Starts with 'A'" authors:

Avery Garland Cassell is an older genderqueer San Francisco writer, poet, cartoonist, and artist who grew up in Iran. You can find their erotic short stories sprinkled in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2015 and Sex Still Spoken Here. Avery is currently working on a book of more of Behrouz and Lucky's shenanigans, a memoir, and an illustrated early reader children's book about an eight-year-old transgender boy and his family.

Behrouz Gets Lucky is a romantic, literary, kinky, and political novel about two older San Francisco queers - a butch dyke gardener named Lucky and a genderqueer librarian named Behrouz. A coffee date at Café Flore in the Castro sparks a fiery trans masculine relationship that ends with the couple eating falafel in bed at 3 am half way around the world in a Tehran, Iran hotel room. Forced gentrification in modern San Francisco goads Behrouz and Lucky to find their own uniquely sexy way of reclaiming the city's lost queer spaces. Behrouz Gets Lucky is also tenderly sensual – an immersive novel, full of fragrances, delicious food, delirious sexual touch, dandy fashion, and beauty.

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Monday, March 14, 7pm, Books Inc. Castro (2275 Market Street)

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Daphne Gottlieb at Perfectly Queer

Next Monday night is our event "March On: Tales of Perseverance and Hope" at Books Inc. Castro (2275 Market) at 7 pm. Come hear Daphne Gottlieb, who stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten books including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a collection of letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer” to her childhood best friend. She is also the author of five books of poetry, editor of two anthologies, and, with artist Diane DiMassa, the co-creator of the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious. Daphne is the winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

Congratulations to our Genanne Walsh!

Congratulations to our own Genanne Walsh! Her novel "Twister" is #3 on the Small Press Distribution bestseller list:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/58937/fiction-bestsellers-januaryfebruary-2016.aspx

Genanne Walsh has been awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press for her first novel, Twister, which was also a finalist for the Brighthorse Prize. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs.

Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern community mourns the death of a young soldier. As the storm drives into the heart of town secrets are illuminated, pasts are resurrected, and lives are shaken to the core.

Margo Perin, one of the reader for March On: Tales of Perseverance and Hope

One of the authors for our event is Margo Perin. She has taught writing for more than thirty years in the U.S., Britain, Mexico and Italy, including on M.F.A. writing programs at the University of San Francisco and New College, as well as fiction and nonfiction workshops at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Cruz Extensions. Her publications include Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she has been featured in numerous national and international media, including Heyday/PEN’s Fightin’ Words, The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Mexico’s El Petit Journal, Holland’s Psycologie, KRON 4 TV, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and KALW, KPFA, and WAMC. Her awards include two San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants and Poets & Writers grants, a Creative Work Fund grant, and residencies at Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, Hedgebrook and Norcroft.

Margo will read from her latest work, "The Opposite of Hollywood," the tale of a young woman discovering the surprising truth about her parents and the sudden family "vacations" to foreign lands.

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