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POSTPONED! Francisco Luis-White Presents Their Chapbook "Found Them"

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Thursday, September 15th 2016

7:30 pm

Red Emma's

Sorry friends! This event has been postponed due to unforeseen date conflicts! We'll reschedule soon.The first released work of poetry from White, Found Them deals with physical and spiritual place along an arduous but liberating gender and sexuality journey. This chapbook includes seventeen poems which explore transformation and departure as means of survival, as well as ancestral magic as an omnipresent resource.For this third reading on their Found Them tour, White will read selections from the chapbook as a tool for leading conversation around the necessity of Black and trans narratives in contemporary literature - particularly in nonfiction and poetry. The discussion will center the Black trans/nonbinary literary voice in the current era of movement for Black lives.

Francisco-Luis White is a nonbinary trans, Afro-Latinx poet and storyteller residing in District of Columbia. Francisco has presented at Fire & Ink - a conference for LGBTQ writers of African descent, Carolina Conference on Queer Youth, and the United States Conference on AIDS. They have been recognized by National Black Justice Coalition as an LGBTQ Emerging Leader to Watch. In 2013, they were endorsed by Jill Stein and the Massachusetts Green Party as a candidate for Boston City Council. In May, White released their debut chapbook Found Them. They've been featured poet at Busboys & Poets' Sparkle (DC) and You Can't Kill A Poet (Philly).

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