Opening Reading: Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present

Exhibit Opening, Community Open House, and Celebratory Reading & Dialogue

with artist Nicholas Buffon and poets Michael Klein, Joey DeJesus, ray ferreira, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, and Chrysanthemum Tran

6:00 – Opening Reception

7:00 – Reading & Dialogue

Join us for a celebration of the opening of an exhibition of recent work by sculptor and painter Nicholas Buffon celebrating iconic LGBTQ locales in New York and beyond. Following a community open house with tours of the artwork and a reception, poets Michael Klein, Joey De Jesus, ray ferreira, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, and Chrysanthemum Tran read new work written in response to the show. A dialogue with artist Nicholas Buffon and the poets follows the reading.