Tickets $10 each (or included as part of purchase of a CapFire ALLPASS for $75)
The Queer Cookie Slam was invented by poet and baker, Tyler French and originally hosted by Regie Cabico as an event to support queer and female-identified voices in our nation's capital. This event features Capturing Fire poets competing in the preliminary bout of the Capturing Fire 2017 slam.
Host - Gori K
Gowri K. is a Tamil American writer, performing artist, and lawyer based in Washington, DC. She is a fellow ...
Tickets $10 each (or included as part of purchase of a CapFire ALLPASS for $75)
The Queer Cookie Slam was invented by poet and baker, Tyler French and originally hosted by Regie Cabico as an event to support queer and female-identified voices in our nation's capital. This event features Capturing Fire poets competing in the preliminary bout of the Capturing Fire 2017 slam.
Host - Gori K
Gowri K. is a Tamil American writer, performing artist, and lawyer based in Washington, DC. She is a fellow of the Asian American literary organization Kundiman, poetry coordinator at the arts non-profit BloomBars, a poetry events host at Busboys and Poets, senior poetry editor at Jaggery, and co-editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Gowri has performed her work at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Atlas Performing Arts Center, SpokenWord Paris, and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, environmental protection, the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused in the U.S., and justice and accountability in Sri Lanka.
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