About this Event
P&T Knitwear is excited to celebrate Pride Month with poetry readings from Joseph O. Legaspi, Dante Micheaux, and Yev Gelman! We're also celebrating the release of Legaspi's collection Amphibians, which explores queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American, alongside Micheaux's collection Circus.
Doors open at 5:30pm with the reading starting closer to 6pm. Come early and grab a drink from the !
Tickets and books are available both on eventbrite and at the door.
ABOUT THE POETS:
Joseph O. Legaspi authored the poetry collections Amphibian, Threshold and Imago, and three chapbooks: Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways. His works have appeared in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The Common, World Literature Today and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides with his husband in Queens, New York.
Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus, which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd. His poems and translations have appeared in African American Review; The American Poetry Review; Callaloo; Literary Imagination; Poem-A-Day; Poetry; and Tongue—among other journals and anthologies. Micheaux’s other honors include the Oscar Wilde Award, an Amy Clampitt Residency, the Ambit Prize, and a fellowship from The New York Times Foundation. He is a Fellow and Artistic Director of Cave Canem Foundation. Micheaux’s most recent work is the libretto Sky in a Small Cage and he is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell University.
Yev Gelman is Brooklyn-based writer, artist, and scholar currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers-Newark. Having spent the first twelve years of his life in Russia, Yev seeks to find language(s) for untranslatable experiences of migration, grief, personal agency, and empire. You can find Yev's work online in magazines including The Shore, Bruiser, Epiphany, and Rock Paper Poem, which graciously nominated one of his poems for the 2026 Best of the Net Prize, as well as in the movement building and advocacy of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, where he is the Narrative Content Creator.
Housekeeping notes:
- This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
- Doors open at 5:30pm, with the talk starting around 6:00pm.
- Books will be available for purchase at the event.
- Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
- The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
- If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts, 180 Orchard Street, New York, United States
USD 10.00 to USD 21.05
