Did you know May is named after the goddess Maia - she was in charge of Spring & fertility. So celebrate Spring by making out or coming to homo-centric...just not at the same time (we're too easily distracted)!
This month we're proud to be featuring Xavier Axelson, Jason Jenn & Steven Reigns
Hank Henderson curates & Stories Books & Cafe hosts.
We'll be outside on the patio so wrap yourself up in something (or someone) fashionably Spring-y.
Please remember that we depend on the word of mouth so tell a friend, bring two or three.
Xavier Axelson is a writer of erotica who has worked in the adult industry for over 15 years.
He writes Gay erotica for Silver Publishing and Seventh Window Publications. He is also a regular contributor for Queer Magazine Online and writes the Los Angeles Sex Advice Column for examiner.com. Xavier also has a blog at http://xaviersaxel.webs.com/.
Jason Jenn is a multimedia artist, writer and creative consultant who uses art to enhance Life's experiences and assists people in consciously accessing more creativity in their lives.
He works with performing artists to direct, document or design video/graphic elements for their work. Additionally, Jason is a lyricist, collage artist and performer. In his works, Jason utilizes the senses, words, sounds, and visual forms to interpret the world and communicate meaning through a variety of methods. His most recent work Cavafy's Caress premiered at the Affinity Gallery in Long Beach. More samples of my work can be found at: www.jasonjenn.com.
Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles-based poet and educator. His newest collection Inheritance came out in 2010 by Lethe Press. After earning a degree in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida, he published his début poetry collection, Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat, in 2001.
Since then, Reigns has published four chapbooks: Ignited, Cartography, In the Room, and As if Memories Were Not Enough. A two-time recipient of The Los Angeles County’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Artist in Residency Grant, Reigns organized and taught the first-ever autobiographal poetry workshop for GLBT seniors and edited an anthology of their writings, My Life is Poetry. He has taught writing workshop around the country to GLBT youth and people living with HIV and recently received his Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. Currently he is involved with S(t)even Years, a 7-year endurance performance under the mentorship of performance artist Linda Montano. Visit him at www.stevenreigns.com.
With an artistic career distinguished by constant innovation, Cunningham expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of contemporary visual and performing arts. His collaborations with artistic innovators from every creative discipline have yielded an unparalleled body of American dance, music, and visual art."
Several fine books have been written by & about Cunningham. We recommend Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time and Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham.
Prove Larry Wrong & check out this amazing homo-centric and the legacy he created for LGBTQ history.
