An Evening with Bryan Borland
October 24, 2019Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 7pm.$35/ticket (includes dinner & the show). Cash bar. Location: The Joint Theater and Coffeehouse301 Main St, North Little Rock, AR 72114
The AIDS epidemic silenced a generation of talented writers and artists. In 1995, poet Karl Tierney, a graduate of the University of Arkansas’s master’s program in creative writing, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge after being rejected from a trial AIDS-treatment study that would have extended his life. Now, 24 years later, Argenta’s own Sibling Rivalry Press is bringing the world the book he dreamed of publishing. Join Sibling Rivalry Press founding publisher Bryan Borland, himself a Lambda Literary Award-Finalist and American Library Association-honored poet, as he tells Karl’s story and reads the poems he left behind. Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland, says: “Reading Karl Tierney’s collection is like entering a portal into San Francisco in the ’80s and ’90s, a time when it was still dirty and sexy and alive, even as men across the city were dying. With sharp intimacy, Tierney’s poems had me laughing and crying in recognition for all that we lost. This is vital reading.”