Temporary Utopias
Sat, Jun 14
|Virtual Workshop
Drawing upon AIDS literature for reference, Temporary Utopias seeks to provide a space of possibility in the past, present, and future tenses: example poems from queer ancestors, providing a blueprint for survival; forward-looking leaps in prompts encouraging alternative world-building; & more.


Time & Location
Jun 14, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
Virtual Workshop
About the event
Workshop Description: José Esteban Muñoz, in his landmark 2009 book Cruising Utopia, positions queerness as a horizon point, an act of always reaching beyond one’s imposed limitations. To Muñoz, disrupting linear time is a gesture of necessary resistance: “…queers think the past and the future do not belong to them,” he writes. “All we are allowed to imagine is barely surviving the present.” How can poems build their own flickering glimpses of utopia? Through automatic writing exercises and in response to poems by Justin Chin, Tim Dlugos, and Francisco X. Alarcón, we will experiment in summoning our own imagined physical spaces of peace and possibility.
About the Presenter: T.S. Leonard is the author of God Save the Queens! (Irrelevant Press, 2022) and poems published or forthcoming in Post Road, Fourteen Poems, Foglifter, and Poetry Magazine. Leonard’s work explores queerness, loss, and community at the intersection of disco music and time…
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