saturday, 04/11
@ 2PM
Join Queer Voices & friends for an afternoon of readings for joy, connection, care, and resistance.
📆 Saturday, April 11th, 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM
📍 Moon Palace Books (3032 Minnehaha Ave)
featuring Brianna Flavin, Davi Gray, Stephani Maari Booker, and K Abram.
FREE TO ATTEND
davi gray
Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, producer, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis), on unceded lands of the Dakota and Ojibwe, where she works through the ReEntry Lab to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration with literary and arts communities ready to receive them. Davi has work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere, and was a finalist for the Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellowship in 2025. Her first poetry collection, This Body, This Fruit, was a finalist for the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry, and will be published by Trio House Press in February 2027. You can find more on Davi and her work, including her upcoming play debut, also called "This Body, This Fruit," at DaviGray.com.
stephani maari booker
Stephani Maari Booker is surviving the fire, plague and wrath of 2020s Minneapolis, MN, by creating works for the page and the stage in which she wrestles with her multiple marginalized identities: African American, lesbian, lower-class and disabled. She is a recipient of a 2024 McKnight Fellowship for Writers Administered by the Loft and a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grant.
The author of Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time, she has nonfiction, science fiction and poetry in many publications. For more information about Stephani's work, go to www.athenapersephoni.com.
brianna flavin
Brianna Flavin is a poet, a Ramsey County Garden Educator, and Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop volunteer. She's working on a collection of poems that feature the Irish/Celtic ogham and a chapbook where the character Gretel and an asexual rusalka fall in love. She's also co-authoring a MN native tree identification guide for the U of M forestry extension program and raising 2 children, 3 ducks, and a rabbit. Her work has appeared in TIMBER, CALYX, Waxwing Literary, The Nashville Review and Subnivean, among other places.
k abram
k Abram is a poet and cross-genre writer based in Minneapolis, MN. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and is English Faculty at Fond du Lac Tribal Community College, where they serve as Faculty Editor for The Thunderbird Review. Their work has been supported by The Watermill Center, Blue Mountain Center, Queer Voices MN, and featured in the NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series. Her writing has been recognized as a finalist for the BOMB Magazine Poetry Contest, Meridian Short Prose Prize, and Wabash Prize for Poetry. Their work can be most recently found in Meridian, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Offing.
UP NEXT:
This Pride, Queer Voices Presents:
WE OUT HERE
at RED EYE Theater.
Friday, June 27 — 7:00 PM
Saturday, June 28 — 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Queer Voices thanks the Minnesota State Arts Board for granting us a 2026 Arts Experience Award for We Out Here.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
WrItInG
BurStS
Every other Saturday
10AM via Zoom
Have something to work on?
Want accountability time for your practice?
Just want to hang out?
Then Writing Bursts are for you! This low-commitment zoom meeting is truly the time you make of it.
spring schedule:
April 4, 2026 10:00 AM
April 18, 2026 10:00 AM
May 2, 2026 10:00 AM
May 16, 2026 10:00 AM
pAst ProgRAMmInG
This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.