Embawdied Lit: A Drag Reading

Joyelle McSweeney has called drag a "threat aesthetic." Embawdied Lit, hosted by Adam Atkinson, Molly Gaudry and Tim Jones-Yelvington, threatens to be yr most memorable experience at AWP 2015, through literary readings (and READINGS) that explore self-conscious, exaggerated and/or hyperbolic performances of gender, both on the page and on stage. With: Adam Atkinson Jessica Rae Bergamino Lucas de Lima Johannes Göransson Rj Equality Ingram Saeed Jones Tim Jones-Yelvington Andrea Lawlor Joyelle McSweeney Megan Milks & Sam Cohen Carrie Murphy Sade Murphy Ife-Chudeni Oputa Roberto Santiago JD Scott Sarah Smith Christopher Soto (aka Loma) Jennifer Tamayo Cassandra Troyan Ronaldo Wilson ...and more TBA! In the POET'S CORNER at Kieran's Irish Pub, super close to the Convention Center and hotels—Kieran's has multiple venues—make sure you come to the POET'S CORNER.