Heart Less Book Party (in person & live-streaming)

Join Indolent Books author Carley Moore as she reads from her debut poetry collection, Heart Less, and celebrates the work of Julián Delgado Lopera, Megan Milks, and Miro Spinelli, who will also read from their work.

Heart Less is about the end of a marriage, coming out as bisexual, dating, and co-parenting in the midst of global catastrophe. Woven through the book are questions about the heart, heartache, heart break, and the complicated nature of grief and loss.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.

All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

Carley Moore is the author of Heart Less, Panpocalypse, The Not Wives, 16 Pills, and The Stalker Chronicles.  She’s a Clinical Professor of Writing and Creative Production at New York University and an Associate at The Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Carley lives in Brooklyn with her kid and two cats. Follow her on Instagram @fragmentedsky or find her blogging on Substack.

Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. 

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press; and Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, published by Instar Books as part of the Remember the Internet series.

Miro Spinelli is a Brazilian trans artist and scholar. They are a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU. They also hold a Master’s Degree from the Arts of the Scene Graduate Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In their creative and intellectual production, Spinelli investigates how performance can establish radical connections with materiality, writing, and dissent. Since 2014, they have been developing the performance series “Gordura Trans” (“Trans Fat”), and since 2017, the installation series “All That You Touch You Change; All That You Change Changes You.” Their first poetry book, “pele ou pedra nothing heavy,” a bilingual work created between Brazil and New York City, will be released soon.