Join in for our first-ever Open Mic Night. Bring your poetry, music, comedy, dance routines, persuasive speeches, and magic tricks, we'll provide light snacks and teas; and together, we'll celebrate PRIDE and raise trans awareness.

Thursday, June 22, 6-8 pm.
Sign-up opens at 6 pm.
FREE!
All welcome! Sober event. Brave space.

The open mic is hosted by and features nationally acclaimed author, Diana Goetsch. Diana Goetsch is a poet and essayist, the author of eight collections of poems, the “Life in Transition” blog at The American Scholar, and the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New School, where she served as the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow. For twenty-one years Goetsch was a New York City public school teacher, at Stuyvesant High School and at Passages Academy in the Bronx, where she ran a creative writing program for incarcerated.

Diana Goetsch’s book, This Body I Wore, will be available for purchase in association with Flagship Books. A book discussion will be held on July 20, 2023, to discuss the book with the community. Reach out to Helen Hokanson at hokansonh@gmail.com for more information.

KC Farm School at Gibbs Road recognizes and celebrates transgender people. We attest that trans rights are human rights.