KAY GABRIEL
PERVERTS
HER FRIENDS
PERVERTS
HER FRIENDS
Thursday,
October 2, 2025
6:30
Doors
7pm
Group reading begins
See below for full list of 20 readers
Limited capacity
October 2, 2025
6:30
Doors
7pm
Group reading begins
See below for full list of 20 readers
Limited capacity
Perverts collages my dreams with others’ dreams. It’s an exercise in collective capacity—in people producing together a shared, sometimes outrageous language that no one person could assemble on their own.
It’s a choral, book-length poem with a hard-on for (1) excessive conviviality and (2) people doing things together. So we’re going to read it together, too. Twenty people or so, without whom the poem wouldn’t exist in the way that it does, read from Perverts, to an audience of perverts, that’s you, dear.
It’s a choral, book-length poem with a hard-on for (1) excessive conviviality and (2) people doing things together. So we’re going to read it together, too. Twenty people or so, without whom the poem wouldn’t exist in the way that it does, read from Perverts, to an audience of perverts, that’s you, dear.
—Kay Gabriel
Over the last few years, Kay Gabriel sent a wide range of people a simple prompt—“send me your dreams.”
Kay took what she received and used it to write a book—it’s called Perverts (Nightboat, 2025). Conceived as a piece of collaborative writing, the book combines Kay's own words and dreams with those of others, turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause.
For this event, Kay has invited a cast to bring Perverts to life, some of whom contributed dreams to the book. She’s assigned each person their parts to read—making this almost like a play, not quite a reading.
Kay took what she received and used it to write a book—it’s called Perverts (Nightboat, 2025). Conceived as a piece of collaborative writing, the book combines Kay's own words and dreams with those of others, turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause.
For this event, Kay has invited a cast to bring Perverts to life, some of whom contributed dreams to the book. She’s assigned each person their parts to read—making this almost like a play, not quite a reading.
The readers are:
Aaina Amin
Morgan Bassichis
Alexa Jo Berry
Kyle Dacuyan
Patrick DeDauw
Heather Glynis
Rainer Diana Hamilton
Nile Harris
Stephen Ira
Sunny Iyer
Zora Jade Khiry
Shiv Kotecha
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Ty Mitchell
Liam O'Brien
Lena Pervez Afridi
Tracy Rosenthal
Jasmine Sanders
David Velasco
and
Kay Gabriel
Aaina Amin
Morgan Bassichis
Alexa Jo Berry
Kyle Dacuyan
Patrick DeDauw
Heather Glynis
Rainer Diana Hamilton
Nile Harris
Stephen Ira
Sunny Iyer
Zora Jade Khiry
Shiv Kotecha
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Ty Mitchell
Liam O'Brien
Lena Pervez Afridi
Tracy Rosenthal
Jasmine Sanders
David Velasco
and
Kay Gabriel
Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat, 2023). With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). She is the Editorial Director at The Poetry Project and lives in New York.
Due to the age and character of the building, the space is not optimized for ADA accessibility and is located up a single flight of 20 stairs with handrails. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
