Speaking Our Truth: LBGTQ+ students poetry reading at Lincoln Theatre

Skagit PFLAG and the Skagit River Poetry Foundation present an evening of LBGTQ+ voices at the Lincoln Theatre 7 p.m. Saturday, May 13. The event is free and open to everyone. Seattle poet Luther Hughes is the featured reader. Hughes has written the BOA prize winning volume "A Shiver in the Leaves" and is recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Rosenberg Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. He is founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary organization for queer writers of color.

Students from all over Skagit County will be invited to read poems they will have written earlier in the day at a poetry workshop with Hughes.

Hosts for the evening include poet Roberto Ascalon and Gina Touche. Amos Miller will provide musical accompaniment. The student poems from the reading will be published in a commemorative volume.

Speaking Our Truth is funded by a generous grant from the Inatai Foundation.

Information:lincolntheatre.org or skagitriverpoetry.org, [email protected].

Source: Skagit River Poetry Foundation