meTamorphosis x T.S. Leonard "Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival," (w/Steffan Triplett, T.C. Martin, and DJ Queen Father)

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RSVP to attend in-store Register for Livestream We are honored to host T.S. Leonard in celebration of Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival - a dazzling debut poetry collection traversing queer history and survival-- from Missouri to San Francisco, the AIDS epidemic to COVID-19, from Joni Mitchell to Destiny's Child. T.S. Leonard will be joined in conversation by Steffan Triplett, with an opening reading by T.C. Martin, a performance by Sue Flay-Munroe, and music by DJ Queen Father. Winner of the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, a dazzling debut charting queer survival, memory, and joy across time A time traveler crashes into a gay bar, and from that electric collision unfolds Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, T. S. Leonard’s dazzling debut poetry collection. Moving through glitter, ash, memory, and music, these poems follow a queer time traveler across decades and geographies, from turn-of-the twenty-first-century Missouri to 1970s San Francisco to imagined origins of music itself. Along the way, they come of age, try drag, lose friends, and fall in love, tracing a life shaped by history’s ruptures and its celebrations. Leonard’s poems travel through temporal sites of plague and resilience, from the AIDS epidemic to COVID-19 lockdowns, while also lingering in spaces of dance, performance, and community such as discos, living rooms, archives, and bars. Themes of change course throughout the collection in climate and cities, in bodies and identities, and in the frag

Who

• T.S. LeonardAuthor

The book

• Another Anthem of Fabulous SurvivalT.S. Leonard

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White Whale Bookstore

4754 Liberty Avenue

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