Attention, New Yorkers! Aunt Lute author Nancy Agabian recently announced several new readings in and around the Big Apple during the months of May and June, 2012.

February 1, 2012 • Aunt Lute author Nancy Agabian and Shushan Avagyan will present their work from Queered: What’s to be Done with XCentric Art, a collaborative, bilingual book of writing, correspondence and art. The presentation, which also features a video by Arpi Adamyan, will be in New York City on March 14th, 7pm, at Word Up Community Bookstore (4157 Broadway at 176th Street; Washington Heights, NYC 10033; Subway: A Train to 175 St. or 1 Train to 181 St). You can find more information on the Facebook event page.

February 1, 2012 • Aunt Lute authors Nancy Agabian and Emma Pérez will be reading at the AWP creative writers conference as part of “Ancestors; A Queer Writers of Color Reading.” As described by the organizers, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán and Tony Valenzuela, “”Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading” is a literary reading featuring same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender poets, non/fiction writers, filmmakers, and performance artists of Indigenous Pacific, Native North American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian, Latina/o, and African descent.”

December 1, 2011 • Nancy Agabian, author of Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, recently completed five chapters of the first draft of “The Fear of Large and Small Nations”, a nonfiction novel which tells the stories of a relationship with a much younger Armenian man while offering social and political critique of corruption, conformism and social change in the U.S. and Armenia.

It’s hard to believe that 2012 is just around the corner! Jo Scott-Coe will kick off the year with a reading of Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Secrets, and Violence in a Suburban School at the Reading Salon in LA.

Join us on October 13, 2011 from 5:30pm-8:30pm! A Simple Revolution is pleased to announce the panelists for next month’s special community event, presented by Aunt Lute Books in co-sponsorship with Openhouse and the Queer Cultural Center. Bay Area authors Joan Annsfire, Patricia Jackson, Carole J. Morton, and Chana Wilson will join Judy Grahn onstage for a free evening program you won’t want to miss.

Join us on October 13, 2011 from 5:30pm-8:30pm! • A Simple Revolution is pleased to announce the panelists for a special community event presented by Aunt Lute Books in co-sponsorship with Openhouse and the Queer Cultural Center. Bay Area authors Joan Annsfire, Patricia Jackson, Carole J. Morton, and Chana Wilson will join Judy Grahn onstage for a free evening program you won’t want to miss.

Save the Date: October 13, 2011 • A Simple Revolution is excited to announce the date and location for a special community event! Join us on Thursday, October 13 for a free evening program at Francis of Assisi (145 Guerrero Street, SF).

Nancy Agabian, author of Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, will be braving the summer heat in San Antonio and New York City for two upcoming events at the end of July. On July 28, Nancy will be reading at the Macondo Writers Workshop, the annual workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros for writers of social justice. After reading with her fellow Macondistas, Nancy is off to Governor’s Island for the First Annual NYC Poetry Festival, a cavalcade of poetry under the sun.

On July 10th, lesbian author, activist, and social theorist Judy Grahn will hold a reading and discussion about her recently-launched project with Aunt Lute Books, A Simple Revolution: Community Dialogue with Judy Grahn, at Francis of Assisi, 145 Guerrero Street, San Francisco from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.