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Steven Reigns, Los Angeles poet and educator, was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. He has two previouscollections,InheritanceandYour Dead Body is My Welcome Mat, and over a dozen chapbooks. Reigns editedMy Life is Poetry,showcasing his students' work from the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBTQ seniors. Reigns has lecturedand taught writing workshops around the country to LGBTQ youth and people living with HIV. He worked for a decade as an HIVtest counselor in Florida and Los Angeles. Currently he is touringThe Gay Rub,an exhibition of rubbings from LGBTQlandmarks around the world, and has a private practice as a psychotherapist. He lives in West Hollywood, CA.
Praise for Steven Reigns's A Quilt for David With compassion and perspicacity, A Quilt for David unflinchingly investigates a sordid episode in homophobic history. The result is at once enraging, enlightening, shocking, and heartbreaking. Even people who don't read poetry or history will find it compelling. -Alvin Orloff, Dog Eared Books, San Francisco, CA Praise for Steven Reigns Reigns is a devoted and deeply studied writer. The poetry that emerges from his devotion is autobiographical, accessible, and emotionally bold. His pages bare and share many uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. -Richard Blanco, author of How to Love a Country In Three Pack Jack, acclaimed poet Steven Reigns summons and empowers an amazing variety of gay men before live LA audiences to talk about forbidden subjects. Defying societal shame-fighting even the internalized self-loathing we all of us suffer from to one degree or another-these brave, funny, fiery, guys men present and celebrate. -Kevin Killian, author of Shy, Impossible Princess, Arctic Summer Steven Reigns explores the inexhaustible power of family to affect our lives and loves, and does so in a candid yet passionate manner remarkable for its evocative and wounding moments. -Wanda Coleman, author of Heavy Daughter Blues and Mercurochrome: New Poems . . . A gay life lived with pleasure and bitterness and companionability. It welcomes the reader in and this book is bursting full of relationships whether between siblings or internet dates or married men. Its subject might be the loneliness of how much everybody knows. -Eileen Myles, author of Sorry, Tree and Skies Steven Reign's graceful, plainspoken lyrics describe the shape of one gay life at the beginning of this new century, a time of uncertainty, transformation, and hope. To read his book is to meet a man alert to his times and the textures of the lives around him, a community observed with tenderness, wit and pleasure. -Mark Doty, author of Dog Years and Fire to Fire Steven Reigns' Inheritance sizzles with the unsparing heat of memory. This impressive and soulful collection displays a queer poetics so precise and deft it leaves the reader almost singed by how close to the mark the words flare. -Tim Miller, author of Body Blows and 1001 Beds
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