Join us for the Office Hours Spring Showcase Reading on December 12, 2025! Current fellows will share work they generated or revised throughout the fall semester, including:

• Abba B

• Dina Abdulhadi

• Donauta Watson

• J. Freeborn

• James Fujinami Moore

• Megan Murtha

• Michael M. Weinstein

• Ryan Dzelzkalns

• Sarah M. Sala

• Shakeema Smalls

• Suzanne Highland

The reading takes place from 7-8:30 PM ET. We'll share the Zoom link one day in advance via email. 

Join Office Hours Poetry Workshop Wednesday, July 31st at 8 PM for a summer showcase reading. Fellows will just have completed our book publishing workshop with Trevor Ketner.

NOEL SIKORSKI
SARAH M. SALA
ASHLEY HARRIS
RYAN DZELZKALNS
SHAKEEMA SMALLS
IRENE VILLASEÑOR
CARRIE HOHMANN

Join Office Hours Poetry Workshop for the virtual spring 2024 showcase reading on June 12, 2024. Link in bio to rsvp.

Readers:
Jayla Smith
Ashley Harris
Sarah M. Sala
Abba Belgrave
Holly Mitchell
Dina Abdulhadi
Emily Hockaday
Carrie Hohmann
Ryan Dzelzkalns
Shakeema Smalls
James Fujinami Moore
Donauta Watson-Starcrvic

Join us Friday, December 15th, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). In person readers will gather at the Bureau of General Services--Queer Division and virtual readers will appear on a screen. Fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.

Readers:

Dina Abdulhadi
Abba Belgrave
Ryan Dzelzkalns
J. Freeborn
Ashley Harris
Emily Hockaday
Carrie Hohmann
Holly Mitchell
Sarah M. Sala
Shakeema Smalls
Noel Sikorski

Tokyo Poetry Journal vol. 14 drops on Saturday Dec. 9, with sensual celebrations at Ryozan Park Lounge, an intimate Tokyo hideaway in Sugamo. Come join us!

Entry: ¥2,000 (includes a copy of the book)

FEATURED PERFORMERS

Ryan Dzelzkalns
Jes Kalled
Duncan Whom
Nishalya
Greg Snazz
Rachel Ferguson
Mariko Kitakubo
Robot Bastard
Andrew Gebert
Barbara Summerhawk
Herman Bartelen
Sorcha Chisholm
Tracy Sherman

Join us Friday, May 19th, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2023 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event taking place online and in-person at the Bureau of General Sevices—Queer Division. Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.

Readers:
Abba Belgrave
Carrie Hohmann Campbell  
Ryan Dzelzkalns 
Emily Hockaday
Paco Márquez
James Fujinami Moore 
Meghan Pinto
Sarah Sala
Noel Sikorski
Shakeema Smalls 
Avia Tadmor
Annie Wei

Join us Friday, December 16th, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Fall 2022 Showcase Reading, a virtual event taking place online only. Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.

Readers:
Abba Belgrave
Carrie Hohmann Campbell  
Ryan Dzelzkalns 
Ashley Harris  
Emily Hockaday
James Fujinami Moore 
Sarah Sala
Shakeema Smalls 
Avia Tadmor
Annie Wei

A relaxed, intimate evening of readings from queer horror anthology, Queer Little Nightmares (Arsenal) and cocktails by Elsa from The Roost. In person and virtual via Crowdcast.

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli, with readings from Ryan Dzelzkalns (poetry), Kelly Rose Pflug-Back (poetry), Andrew Wilmot (fiction), and Emrys Donaldson (fiction).

Event is on Sun (11/20) at 7:00 PM Central and on Mon (11/21) at 10:00 AM Japan Standard.

Come out for an eclectic night of poetry readings, drag/cabaret performances, and DJing featuring artists from Japan’s queer community and allies in Tokyo and beyond.

Launch party for volume 8 of the Tokyo Poetry Journal, featuring readings by many of the artists included in the issue.

An event for artists in the contemporary art scene in Tokyo to share their work and inspire.

Come and enjoy the poems of RYAN DZELZKALNS, MICHAEL FRAZIER, ZORIA PETKOSKA, and XIAO YUE SHAN. In addition to sharing their own work, each reader will "cover" a poem, introducing a poet that has influenced their craft.

Had work performed by actors Lachrisha Brown, Ramsey Faragallah, and Ashley Marie Ortiz—

along with poems by Emily Blair, Marina Blitshteyn, Emily Brandt, Linda Harris Dolan, Emily Hockaday, Cynthia Manick, Thomas March, Paco Marquez, Anna McDonald, Sanjana Nair, Richard Prins, Christina Quintana, Sarah Sala, and Jason Schneiderman.

Directed by Thomas Dooley.

Fundraiser for the production of their The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies, by Meg Whiteford.

Performed with Dolly, Lawrence Dreyfuss, Laura Gruberg, Simon Jacobs, Sean Lessard, Joseph Riipii, and Starboard and the Phoenix.

Read with Ricardo Hernandez, Will E. Luperon, and the eminent Nicole Sealey, 

Read with Kaitlyn Greenidge, Kyle McCarthy, Lauren Whitehead, and Aaron Hauptman

Celebrated David Moscovich's "Life+70 [Redacted]" publication.

Read with Erika Anderson, Chantal Clarke, Sean Denmark, Edwin Alanis García, Paco Marquez, and of course David Moscovich.

Fundraiser for the newly independent literary journal, The Offing.

Read with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Desiree C. Bailey, Mahogany L Browne, Wo Chan, Kyle Dargan, Camonghne Felix, Marwa Helal, JP Howard, Cynthia Manick, Syreeta McFadden, Melodiousfly, José Olivarez, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Lynne Procope, Jayson Smith, Paul Tran and others.

Had work performed by actors Jason C. Brown, Caitlin Cassidy, and Michael Potts—

along with poems by Mason Bolton, Justin Bond, David Groff, Julia Guez, Aimee Herman, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Jee Leong Koh, Rickey Laurentiis, Zef Lisowski, Thomas March, Brandon Menke, Jerome Murphy, G. David Ramirez, Diana Roffman, Sarah Sala, Jason Schneiderman, and Brad Vogel.

Directed by Thomas Dooley.

Read with Chris Arp, Tyler Gonlag, Mary Ann Koruth, Isaac Ginsberg Miller, and Denise Milstein.

Introduced and read with Catie Rosemurgy, Sean Denmark, David Moscovich, and Emily Yoon.