Poetry at Papercuts: PARTY LINE with Kyle Carrero Lopez, Porsha Olayiwola, and Crystal Valentine

Join us for a night of poetry in celebration of Kyle Carrero Lopez's debut full-length collection, PARTY LINE. A humor-filled lyric love letter to queer nightlife, this book is a ki, to say the least. Kyle will be joined by Porsha Olayiwola and Crystal Valentine, the former poets laureate of Boston and New York City (respectively).

Kyle Carrero Lopez is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest, PARTY LINE, forthcoming July 2026 from Graywolf, and serves as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter. Born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey, his work centers power, social life, and Afro-Cuban histories, among other subjects. He’s represented by—but not related to—Ashley Lopez at Massie McQuilkin & Altman. He co-founded LEGACY, a Brooklyn-based production collective by and for Black queer artists. His writing has been highlighted in Best New Poets and Best of the Net; round-ups in W Magazine, Current Affairs, and The Atlantic; and episodes of Poetry Unbound and The Slowdown. Kyle has received fellowships from Cave Canem, CubaOne Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, NYC Poets Afloat, and NYU, where he was a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow, a Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellow at NYU Berlin, and earned his M.F.A. in Poetry. He was also a 2022 Tin House Scholar.

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