LIVE- Books Are Magic presents: LGBTQ+ Open Mic with George Abraham and Luther Hughes

This event will be held via Zoom Meeting. Register to attend here. Sign up to participate here.

Join us for our first ever virtual LGBTQ+ Open Mic, with featured readers George Abraham and Luther Hughes! This open mic will center LGBTQ+ folks, but all are welcome and encouraged to participate as listeners! We encourage everyone to invite and share widely.

Details about the open mic can be found in the sign-up form, above. Please note that the registration link is to attend the event, but in order to participate as a reader you will need to sign up at the google form. 

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet from Jacksonville, FL. They are a Kundiman fellow, a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), and a recipient of the College Union Poetry Slam’s Best Poet title. They are the author of the debut poetry collection, Birthright (Button Poetry, April 2020), as well as the chapbooks the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press) and al youm (the Atlas Review). Their work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Paris Review, LitHub, West Branch, Mizna, and elsewhere. They are currently based in Somerville, MA where they are a PhD Candidate in Bioengineering at Harvard University. 

Luther Hughes, born and raised in Seattle, is author of Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), Founder of Shade Literary Arts, and Executive Editor for the The Offing. Along with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat, he co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast. He has been featured in Poetry, Forbes, Paris Review, The Rumpus, and others. He is the recipient of the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. Luther received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.