VenueNew Hazlett Theater 

Date10/09/2013 

Time7:30 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorHEArt — Human Equity through Art 

Cost $10.00
Click to purchase tickets
 

Description and Reader Names: Award-Winning Gay Poet Saeed Jones Reads with National Book Award-Winning Poet Terrance Hayes in the Premiere of Human Equity through Art’s Performance Series
at New Hazlett Theater, October 9

The Human Equity through Art Performance Series, with funding from the Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, presents award-winning gay poet Saeed Jones and National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes in the first of its 3-part 2013-2014 performance series, October 9, 7:30 p.m. at the New Hazlett Theater.

Saeed is the editor of BuzzFeed LGBT. His work has appeared in Best Gay Stories 2013, Guernica, Ebony Magazine, The Rumpus, Hayden's Ferry Review and West Branch, among others. Saeed received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University — Newark. His chapbook When the Only Light is Fire is available from Sibling Rivalry Press and his full-length collection Prelude to Bruise is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He is the recipient of fellowships from Queer/Arts/Mentors and Cave Canem and recently, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry. Currently residing in San Francisco, this will be Saeed's first appearance in Pittsburgh.


Terrance is the author of Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), which won the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has received a bazillion honors, awards and fellowships, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Terrance lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and children.

HEArt brings these poets together to read in Pittsburgh as part of its ongoing mission to promote artists as activists and to build a community of citizens who believe in art as a vehicle for social justice and reform. “Saeed is a new voice for the lgbt community, one that writes with a dignified, yet brash craft and singular style. His writing is elegantly brutal,” says Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Managing Editor of HEArt Online, the nation’s only journal of literature and art devoted to fighting discrimination and promoting social justice.

“Terrance has been a HEArt contributor since its original print run from 1997 to 2002. His work continually challenges inequity and discrimination, witnessing injustice and questioning cultural authority,” says Mcilroy. “He is brilliant in his poetic weaponry and wisdom.”

Tickets for this revolutionary reading are available online at ShowClix — $10 plus a small service fee before the day of the show and $15 at the door.

The HEArt Performance Series continues with National Book Award nominee Tim Seibles and local gay performance poet, Yah Lioness Borne on Thursday March 22, 2014, then concludes on June 5, 2014 with activist poet Martín Espada and a yet-to-be-determined Pittsburgh artist. The Heinz Endowments supports efforts to make southwestern Pennsylvania a premier place to live and work, a center for learning and educational excellence, and a region that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Primary Contact PersonLeslie Anne Mcilroy 

Primary Contact Emaileditors@heartjournalonline.com 

Telephone412-241-2049 

Websitehttp://heartjournalonline.com 

Facebookhttp://facebook.com/humanequitythroughart 

Twitterhttp://twitter.com/HumanEquityArt 

Number of readers on program 

Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? Yes 

Will author's books be for sale? Yes 

Address 16 Allegheny Square East 

Address 2 

Address 3 

CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15212 

Days/Hours of Operationopen for performances 

Primary Contact Person 

Primary Contact Email 

Telephone412-320-4610 

Websitehttp://www.newhazletttheater.org/ 

Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/newhazlett 

Twitterhttp://twitter.com/newhazlett 

AuthorLeslie Anne Mcilroy 

Websitehttp://lamcilroy.com 

Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1089884949 

Twitter 

Short bio: Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length collection Rare Space and the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards. Her second book, Liquid Like This, was published by Word Press, 2010.