"You Can't Kill A Poet" Vol. 6

It's the 1 year anniversary of "You Can't Kill A Poet"! YCKAP is a bi-monthly poetry reading that features an always changing group of queer poets. Come out and see what the queer voices of Philadelphia have to offer. This month we have a special guest reader from Oakland, CA - July Westhale! Free to attend, free refreshments! Come one, come all! Invite yer friends! Reader's list: Boston Gordon is a poet and writer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boston earned their MFA in poetry through Lesley University. They have been published in Amethyst Arsenic, Word Riot, Guernica and more. Brown Sanders is a Philly poet. You can find some of her stuff in the next issue of Bedfellows Magazine. Her virtual address is brownsanders.tumblr.com July Westhale is poet, writer, and activist. She was a finalist for a Creative Writing Fulbright to Chile, and has been awarded grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Sewanee, Napa Valley, Tin House and Bread Loaf. Her poetry has most recently been published in AGNI, Adrienne, burntdistrict, Eleven Eleven, Sugar Mule, The East Bay Review, 580 Split, Quarterly West, and PRISM International. She has an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. She was the 2014 Tomales Bay Poetry Fellow, and is the 2015 Poet in Residence at the Dickinson House. www.julywesthale.com Tyler Antoine is a writer who currently moves between Delaware, where they co-run a VHS company called Trashmonger Video, and Philadelphia. You can find previous examples of their writing in Bedfellows, Mad House, Painted Bride Quarterly, and in their own self-published quasi-annual zine, Grave-Digging Foot Fetish. In their spare time, Tyler likes to watch slashers, play ping-pong, and listen to oldies. They have a written record of every hot dog they've eaten since 2011, and they are 26 years old. William Lukas: has a lot of feelings; appreciates ocean life, misadventures, and friends who keep him grounded on planet Earth; does not appreciate forced smiles, corporate fascism, and the saying, "at the end of the day". William works with young people creating sites for truth-telling, laughter, and creative resistance and will be featured in this May's First Friday opening at The Monkey & The Elephant in Brewerytown. William is also moving to California, so if you are reading this, he is probably going to miss you. Dany Vitola is a community organizer and fitness instructor. 26 years old, 5'2", 150lbs, all muscle and heart. This summer Dan hopes to connect with like-minded visionaries to put together an unprecedented live/work headquarters for artists and activists with radical and sustainable ideas. D likes to write about love, sex and politics, outer space, rock and roll and magic. If you want to know more, just ask. Ailbhe Pascal is a baker poet experienced in human rights work and subversive storytelling. Laurels make them lazy. [Their favorite pastime is making dinner for strangers and never writing about it.] Ask them an honest question and they will give you a) hiraeth, b) a loaf of sourdough, or c) a way out.