Join us for an evening of poetry and literature by St. Louis-based writers Maurice L. Tracy and Molly M. Pearson. This free program is inspired by Scott Burton: Shape Shift and AIDS Awareness Month. Seating is limited, with chairs available on the upper and lower levels of the museum, and cushions provided on the stairs.
Maurice Tracy: Maurice/Reese Tracy is a fat, black, transfemme trying to survive America and the Middle West. She writes, she cooks, she lives. They have read as part of the Transvengence poetry series in Chicago, IL, the Goodie House poetry series in St Louis, Missouri, as well as at various museums in the St Louis area. Their work has appeared in The Huffington Post , By Invitation, and the zine The Tenth. They have contributed work to the art collective PSA St Louis, and this collaboration will be shown in The Stanley Museum at Iowa University, in 2025.
Molly Pearson: Molly M. Pearson is a writer, educator, and organizer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work centers sex, identity, aging, illness, community, and the risks we take to survive and make life worth living. Her writing can be found at The New Territory, Catapult, TheBody, Foglifter, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. She is a co-curator of Changeling, a local cross-genre queer reading series. She teaches at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, an interdisciplinary community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis. She implores us all to listen to our elders.
Notice: The program contains mature content, including adult themes and sexual references. Please contact programs@pulitzerarts.org if you require any accommodations to participate.
