Publicly Complex is pleased to present a reading with Noor Ibn Najam, James Gendron & John-Francis Quiñonez.

Join us for good company at Twenty Stories. Doors at 7:00pm; start at 7:15pm. Free and open to the public.

Organizers: Kate Schapira, Chris Lee, and Stine An.

Reader bios:

Noor Ibn Najam is a poet and physicist whose work teases, challenges, breaks, and creates lingual rules and structures. She’s received fellowships from Callaloo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Watering Hole, and her poems have been published with the Academy of American Poets, the Rumpus, and others. Noor’s chapbook, Praise to Lesser Gods of Love, was published by Glass poetry press in 2019 and grapples with the ever-shifting role of love in the human experience—and how best to worship such a fickle deity.

James Gendron is the author of Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) and Weirde Sister.

John-Francis Quiñonez is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, Educator, Provider of Accessible Aide as Your Queer Mawm, and Poet.///// Truly just a Queer, Latinx Wild Thing on the Hunt for Candy almost Always.//// Has a handful of Poems in Maps for Teeth, Yellow Chair Review, Voicemail Poems, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and Slamfind/// Is trying their best not to talk too much about Rock and Roll or Fruit Bats, but Promises Nothing.