A poetry reading with Nomadic Press, featuring all new works!

Locals Only is an invite that showcases talented artist and performers from the Pittsburgh area.

FEATURING:
Moody Ting - drag artist + saxophonist
Dani Janae - poet and fingerer of figs
Pissy Mattress - drag artist and bond villain
Lilith DeVille - drag artist and sideshow accordionist

With music from Karen & The Sorrows, Settled Arrows, and Repelican, readings by Veronica Corpuz, Heather McNaugher, Dani Janae, and Robin Bower, a fabulous raffle and more!

$10 suggested donation.

Very excited to host my first workshop with Girls Write Pittsburgh! We’ll be using poetry as a mode of healing but also a channel to manifest a future we desire. This event is free and open to non binary teens and girls aged 12 to 18!

TQ Live! presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more. This fifth annual performance series features artists and performers from the many LGBTQIA communities in the Pittsburgh region. This program is produced by Scott Andrew, Joseph Hall, and Suzie Silver. Hosted by Joseph Hall, this year’s line-up includes performances by Anna Azizzy, Amelia Bande, Tsohil Bhatia, Jesse Factor, Dani Janae, and DJ FREETER, with additional surprise video and performance works.

Please note this performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

I will be reading with Crystal Stone and providing a workshop for those in attendance.

Event starts at 7 pm!

I’m excited to share my first event ever with y’all!

I’m starting a reading series based off of this site name. The goal is to feature a variety of poets and writers but with a focus on LGBTQ people of color and black women. This event is the first in the series, a place where black women poets will come to share their stories of sexual assault. We will talk back against the overwhelming narrative that black women aren’t believable, that we deserve the abuse we’ve suffered.

Join us April 20th at the Black Cat Market in Pittsburgh, starting at 7pm

April 5th at Mr. Roboto Project

Join us in welcoming Mike Young's The Blue Turn tour, featuring some poems and songs, as well as a treasure chest in which to trade your art for art from other cities. BYO woes--quite literally, Mike is collecting a bucket of them on his travels. You can add your woe to the bucket, or borrow one as you see fit. Also featuring incendiary former and current Pittsburghers Atom Atkinson and Dani Janae, whose work will startle you and love you and bring you home.
XOXO, your host Sarah Elaine Smith

Sadie Dupuis is in town reading from her novel, Mouthguard! She will be reading alongside Colin Hagendorf, author of “Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza”, and I have the distinct honor of joining them.

Brittany Hailer’s releasing her book Animal You’ll Surely Become in November and I’ll be joining her and Dakota Garilli for a night of poetry!