Left Bank Books is proud to present an evening of poetry with readings by T. S. Leonard, a poet, performer, and educator who will read from his debut collection of poetry “Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival,” and Mary Maxfield, a St. Louis writer, educator, and researcher.
A time traveler crashes into a gay bar, and from that electric collision unfolds “Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival,” T. S. Leonard’s dazzling debut poetry collection. Moving through glitter, ash, memory, and music, these poems follow a queer time traveler across decades and geographies, from turn-of-the twenty-first-century Missouri to 1970s San Francisco to imagined origins of music itself. Along the way, they come of age, try drag, lose friends, and fall in love, tracing a life shaped by history’s ruptures and its celebrations.