Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp
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The u. S. Relationship with israel. And a blatant bigot as having to trumps about in florida. He is hanging with the leader of hungary, and anyone who values democracy should be worried. Im Ayman Mohyeldin. Lets do it. We begin this hour in washington, d. C. , or at any moment, we expect a call to be made and d. C. s republican primary as a majority democratic jurisdiction, its expected to be haleys best shot at scoring a victory and our president ial nominating contest. And it comes as the former u. N. Ambassador vows to push for, say she no longer feels bound by the rnc chair to endorse trump if he becomes the gop nominee. Here she was earlier today and a rally in vermont. The media has been, like, all over themselves trying to figure out, why is she not getting out of this vice . Why did she keep finding . What shes doing . First of all, when 70 of americans say they dont want donald trump or joe biden, yes, im gonna keep on fighting. [applause] and while haley trails trump in the d
As President Biden returns from the region saying hes seen new information that clears israel in that deadly hos blast. Pi our Defense Department says its highly unlikely that it was israelis. But protests still raging across the globe. Biden set to address the nation from the oval office tonight. We are live in washington and jerusalem. Heightened alert, Homeland Security warning of the mounting potential for violence here in the u. S. Over the war in the middle east. Authorities ramping up security in cities across the country. Well have the very latest. In turmoil, jim jordan now losing support with republicans in his bid to become the speaker of the house. A third vote expected today, so what happens if he falls short once again . Were live on capitol hill. Chilling confession. Joran van der sloot finally admits killing Natalee Holloway nearly 20 years after her mysterious disappearance, giving her family longsought answers. The not knowing is more torturous than the knowing. This
Up next, steven m. In as argues the killing of Matthew Shephard on october 1998 was not an antigay hate crime but was e result of a robbery gone wrong. This is about an hour. Even sure i need this microphone, but i will use it because this is being recorded for cspan. It is really a great pleasure to be here tonight. This is actually the first of on a book tour that i have no head about 30 cities. It just seems appropriate in terms of gay history to come to the castro, a place that i have really enjoyed in the past. What i would like to do is kind of introduce the book by telling you a little bit of the history about how i got into writing what is now the book and then i thought, im just going to read briefly the couple of probably too, to a half pages to give you a feeling for of the voice of the book and a little bit about some of what you refer to their as the hidden secrets of the tangle secrets. I went to laramie wyoming for made for Television Movie. My background is in film and