Celebrate JOAN, an evening of poetry

Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation as we celebrate Jake Rose’s debut collection, JOAN.

We’ve recommended JOAN to readers all summer, and we are especially excited to host its author, Jake Rose, for an evening of poetry and conversation.

JOAN reimagines the consequential life of Joan of Arc within the context of a queerness, in all its highs and heresies. Read alongside smut poet KD Sims and Lambda Literary Award finalist Joshua Garcia, expect a night of queer poetic prowess. 

The authors will be available after the event for a signing. Copies of JOAN will be available for purchase and our cafe will be open throughout the event.

Hive Mind Books is a queer and trans bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We are located off of the Dekalb Ave (L), Myrtle-Wyckoff (L/M), and Knickerbocker (M) subway stations. Our coffee and tea bar will be open for the duration of this event.

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Jake Rose is a poet and artist based in California’s Central Valley. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Academy of American Poets, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Their debut collection, JOAN, winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poets Book Prize, was published by the University of Chicago Press. They teach at UC Davis and co-edit Vers.

KD Sims is a smut poet. Her work is featured in Stone of Madness Press, Dream Boy Book Club, Womanwood, an imprint of Cutt Press, Hooligan Magazine, and elsewhere. Sims’ debut poetry collection, I Cut My Nails for You, is published by Discount Guillotine. (Audiobook coming soon …)

Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.