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First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

 
Readers: J Bob Alotta, Lisa Baltazar, Samiya Bashir, Marci Blackman, Kera Bolonik, Jacqueline N Brown, Ava Chin, Grace M Cho, Cheryl Clarke, Bridgett Davis, Lisa Duggan, Marta Elena Esquilin, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Ada Gay Griffin, Patricia Spears Jones, Roz Lee, Konda Mason, Courtney Reid-Easton, Shellyne Rodriguez, Kate Rushin, Aisha Shahidah Simmons, Bina Shariff, Evie Shockley, Pamela Sneed, laila stevens, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Karen Thompson, Linda Villarose, Jack Waters, Jana Welch, Jacqueline Woodson, LynYee Yuan and more to come!
 
Performance Space New York’s Marathon Readings shares important, influential, and experimental work by women who have passed away, to collectively remember their words. Previous readings were: black looks: race and representation by bell hooks, Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker and DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa, and Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid.