2026 Queer Poetry Prize Public Reading with Mateo Uhalde

Celebrate queer voices through poetry and public art at Paper Moon with an open mic and public reading honoring Mateo Uhalde, winner of the 2026 Queer Poetry Prize for “I am Become Life, Master of Myself.”

Friday, November 6, 2026, at Paper Moon, 6 Brunswick Road, Troy, NY 12180. Sign-up is 6–7 PM; the reading runs 7–9 PM (America/New_York).

Presented by the NYS Writers Institute, TAP, Inc., and the NYS Council on the Arts; co-directed by Nancy Klepsch and Shawn McCann. Admission price and age restrictions were not specified in the announcement.