Two Writers Walk Into a Bar

Two Writers Walk Into a Bar is a monthly reading series featuring one poet and one prose writer. The event takes place at West End Wine Bar in Durham on the second Tuesday of the month. For more information, visit the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/2writerswalkindurham

Cantrice Janelle Penn is an award-winning writer, editor, multilingual educator, and movement artist. Her work has appeared in LUMEN, In Our Words: A Salon for Queers, Fabulously Feminist: Art for Eco & Social Justice, Firefly Ridge Literary Magazine, and After Ferguson, In Solidarity(Mourning Glory Publishing, 2015). Her short story, "The Orange Line," won the 2016 Firefly Ridge Literary Magazine Women's Writing Award. A VONA/Voices Fellow, Cantrice is currently developing a full-length work of fiction.

Sam Peterson is a guy. But before that he was a boundary-shattering woman, a leader in Washington D.C.s punk scene, a tattooist and performance artist in NYC, and a homeless drug addict in Savannah GA. His work can be found in transgender frontierswoman Kate Bornstein's "Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation," and his one-human play, "F to M to Octopus" won best original script from the Independent. His latest work is a speculative memoir about having been a transgender man in treatment for drug addiction in our very own Butner, North Carolina, home of the "rehabilitation" industry. "Trunky (transgender junky)" will be published by Transgress Press (http://www.transgresspress.org/) in early summer. This event is not sponsored by Living Poetry and is posted for interest of our members.