Thank you to Phillip Ward for trusting me with this original scarf that belonged to Quentin Crisp for tonight’s AN EVENING OF QUENTIN CRISP reading at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Honored to help celebrate his legacy in his own words.🧣

Last night’s LGBTQ+ Publishing 101 panel was genuinely inspiring. Real talk about navigating publishing as queer writers, and the response has already been incredible. #QueerLit #LGBTQBooks #PublishingTriangle #ReadQueerWriters youtu.be/LDLEdNT6n08?...

Sharing a quote from my poem “Unpassable” — part of my forthcoming collection Still, We Are Sacred — for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We carry what they tried to erase. Honor the ancestors. Tell the truth. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #StillWeAreSacred #EmanuelXavier #LatinxVoices

📖 Still, We Are Sacred — my new poetry collection — drops six months from today. rebelsatori.com/product/stil... If you’re interested in: • Writing a review • Booking me for Spring 2026 events • Helping spread the word DM me. Let’s make it happen.

🎙️ “el silencio is surrender” Proud to share “Compromised Skyline” — a spoken word collab with the talented Douglas G. Cala — now streaming as part of his new album Ambrosia on Bandcamp. Listen here: douglasgcala.bandcamp.com/album/ambrosia

🎙️ Honored to be a guest on the Out Loud Podcast with Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada. We got into it—poetry, survival, queer joy, resilience, and the power of refusing silence. Grateful to speak truth. Hope you’ll tune in. 🖤🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 #EmanuelXavier #OutLoudPodcast #QueerVoices

📚 This Wednesday, Oct 8 @ 5PM — I’ll be leading a free poetry workshop at Stapleton Library (Staten Island) as part of #BannedBooksWeek. We’ll write, reflect, and turn lived experience into poetry. Open to all levels. ✍🏽 🗓️ Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr... #PoetryWorkshop

🎙️ This Sunday, Oct 6 at 11am ET— I’m joining the Out Loud podcast for a live convo on queer resilience, poetry, survival & speaking truth. Hosted by Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada. Join via Zoom: ID: 886-9946-0037 PW: 554851 Or watch: 🔗 youtube.com/@thewordiswrite3153

📚✊🏽 Celebrating #BannedBooksWeek with free poetry workshops across NYC libraries, courtesy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. I’ll be at Stapleton Library, Staten Island – Wed Oct 8, 5PM leading a workshop on turning personal stories into poetry. Open to all. Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...

Just released: Here We Will Stay, my poetry video collaboration with Shani Mitchell, now out in the world. Grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

🗓️ The Jersey City Poetry Festival returns Sept 19–21, bringing together a powerful lineup of poets from across the country. 🎤 Panels, readings, workshops, and a vibrant Family Day. 🎟️ Grab your tickets now: 👉 jerseycitypoetryfestival.org

Proud to be part of this year’s Jersey City Poetry Festival 💥 I’ll be speaking on the “Poetry to Move the People” panel this Saturday, Sept 21. Come thru! 🗓️ Sept 19–21 🎟️ Info: jerseycitypoetryfestival.org Let’s gather, speak truth, and move people through poetry. #PoetryToMoveThePeople #JCPF2025

🌈✨ The Publishing Triangle Awards are now accepting entries for the best LGBTQIA+ books published in 2025. 🏆 🗓 Deadline: Nov 25, 2025 📚 Learn more + submit here: submissions.publishingtriangle.org #PublishingTriangle #LGBTQBooks #BookAwards

🌈📚 Join us Sat 9/27 · 3 PM at BGSQD for Raíces & Resistencia: A Latinx LGBTQ+ Poetry Night hosted by Emanuel Xavier✨ Featuring viento izquierdo ugaz, Joshua Garcia, Yoseli Castillo Fuertes & Darrel Alejandro Holnes. FREE! 🔗 publishingtriangle.org/2025/09/raic... #LatinxHeritageMonth #BGSQD

🌈✨ Submissions now OPEN! ✨🌈 The Publishing Triangle is accepting books published Jan 1–Dec 31, 2025 for our 2026 Awards 🏆 honoring the best in LGBTQ+ literature. 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 25, 2025 📢 Finalists: March 2026 🌟 Winners: April 2026 @ The New School, NYC submissions.publishingtriangle.org

⸻ ✨ Cover Reveal ✨ My new poetry collection “Still, We Are Sacred” drops April 2026 via Rebel Satori Press—33 new poems I believe may be my strongest yet. Grateful to Tino Rodríguez (art) + Timothy Cummings (intro). 📩 ARC requests: [email protected]

Shot scenes today for my poem “Here We Will Stay” 🎥 w/ the amazing Shani Mitchell! 📅 Premiere: Sat, Sept 27 | 8 PM 📍 Hub 17, Staten Island (73 Wave St) Also streaming on Poetry in Motion: NYC YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3... #PoetryInMotionNYC #StatenIslandArts

Already missing my 12 amazing cohorts + our brilliant mentor Steven Canals. 🌈✍🏽 Thanks to Lambda Literary, every donor, my new LGBTQ+ screenwriting fam, & Steven for keeping it real + welcoming us into the House of Canals. We promise to make you proud. 💜🎬 #HouseOfCanals

Today, I had a virtual moment with Pose creator Steven Canals and I’m floored—my first poetry book, “Pier Queen” was a source of inspiration for the pilot. 🖤 That little chapbook from ’97 still echoes. #PierQueen #PoseFX #StevenCanals #QueerHistory #LatinxVoices #EmanuelXavier

Honored to have my poem “Here We Will Stay” published in @CataloguingMag 🖤🏳️‍🌈 A piece about queer resilience—about choosing to exist loudly in a world that tries to erase us. We’re still here. We’re not going anywhere. #QueerPoetry #EmanuelXavier #LGBTQLit #HereWeWillStay #PoetryIsResistance

The Publishing Triangle is growing! 🌱📚 Thrilled to welcome Francisco Gutierrez, Reginald Harris, and Jean Redmann to our Board as we continue championing LGBTQ+ books and authors across genres and generations. Meet the full Board: publishingtriangle.org/board/ #PublishingTriangle #LGBTQBooks

Just unearthed raw early 2000’s footage of me reading some poems. Includes the first version of “Legendary”—written for ballroom, filmed by Wolfgang Busch during How Do I Look. 📽️ youtu.be/cLJsWSzfKDg?... #EmanuelXavier #QueerSpokenWord #BallroomHistory #LatinxPoets #PoetryRoots

🌈 Pride In Verse 📅 July 31 | 🕡 6:30–8:30PM 📍 Society of Illustrators (128 E 63rd St, 3rd Fl) 10 NYC queer poets. FREE event. Open bar. No RSVP. Hosted by @PublishingTri + partners. Note: not wheelchair accessible. #PrideInVerse #QueerPoetry #NYCEvents

Release the Epstein files. If we’re serious about justice, stop protecting the powerful. Survivors deserve truth—not coverups. #NoMoreSecrets #ReleaseTheFiles

Finally saw Hell’s Kitchen at the Shubert—wow. Loved it more than expected. Totally forgot Christopher Jackson was in it—what a surprise! Alicia Keys’ music shines. Proud native New Yorker moment. 🎶🗽 #HellsKitchenBway #Broadway #AliciaKeys

Throwback with the one & only Rosie O’Donnell. Funny how speaking truth makes you “a threat to democracy” now. Rosie’s not the problem—she’s always stood up for what’s right. Still #TeamRosie. Always. 💯 #TruthTellers #NotBackingDown #EmanuelXavier #RosieODonnell

Just saw the new Superman movie—loved it. If “woke” means standing up for good over evil, compassion over cruelty, then yeah, I’ll take woke. Especially when the villain is empathy for immigrants—which, btw, we ALL are. 🦸‍♂️🇺🇸 #Superman #WokeAndProud #ImmigrantsBelong

Thrilled to have a new poem featured in the latest issue of Latino Book Review Magazine! Honored to be among so many powerful Latinx voices. 🌺💥 Grab your copy or download now: latinobookreview.com/magazine-202... #EmanuelXavier #LatinxPoetry #LatinoBookReview #PoetryMatters #QueerLatinxVoices

Putting in the work on this new memoir and it’s kicking my ass. Every memory, every revision, every gut-punch I thought I buried—resurfacing. But it’ll be worth it. For the queers, the poets, the survivors. Stay tuned. 🖤 #MemoirInProgress #EmanuelXavier #QueerLit

Bathed in red light and queer joy—just how I like it. 🔥❤️ Wishing everyone a fierce, fearless, and unapologetically loud Pride. #PrideMonth #EmanuelXavier #QueerAndProud #PoetLife 🏳️‍🌈📸

Kicking off Pride weekend in Prospect Park with Paris Is Burning director Jennie Livingston. Legendary vibes, chosen family, sunshine. 💅🏽🏳️‍🌈 And yes—I’m Your Venus is now on Netflix. Watch it. Her story matters. She was one of ours. #PrideWeekend #ImYourVenus #BallroomLegends #QueerHistory

I’m Your Venus on Netflix is a must for Pride. Venus Xtravaganza was a presence at the piers—we walked the same paths. I’ve referenced her in several of my poems over the years. Her story finally gets the flowers it deserves. Add it to your queue. 🌸 #ImYourVenus #PrideMonth

🚨 RSVP DEADLINE IS TODAY! 🚨 Don’t miss the Pride Literary Mixer 🌈📚 🗓 Thurs, June 26 | 🕔 5–6:30PM 📍 1745 Broadway, 14th Fl (NYC) 🎤 Reading & signing by Jiaming Tang 🎁 Free books for first 50 guests! RSVP now: publishingtriangle.org/2025/06/june... #Pride2025 #QueerLit #PublishingTriangle #NYCPride

🗓️ Wed, June 25 – OUTspoken Reading Series at The Bureau, 7PM Feat. Alfred Döblin, Lauren Melissa Ellzey, Sarah G. Levine & Vincent T. Meis 🔗 publishingtriangle.org/2025/06/june... 🗓️ Thurs, June 26 – Pride Lit Mixer w/ PRH, 5PM 🔗 RSVP by June 18: publishingtriangle.org/2025/06/june...

🚨 Just a few days left! RSVP by Weds, June 18 for the Pride Literary Mixer 🏳️‍🌈📚 📅 Thurs, June 26 | 🕔 5PM | 📍1745 Broadway (14th Fl) ✨ Reading + signing by award-winning author Jiaming Tang 🎁 Free books for first 50 guests! 🔗 RSVP: publishingtriangle.org/2025/06/june... #Pride2025

With everything going on (hello, #NoKingsDay 👑), I totally missed that my poem Old Pro was featured as Spotify’s Audio Poem of the Day yesterday! Give it a listen here: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6qKp... #EmanuelXavier #PoetryOfTheDay #SpotifyPoetry #QueerPoet #OldPro

No Kings. No thrones. No dictators.🖕🏽🖕🏼 Crowns are for queens, not wannabe tyrants. #NoKingsDay #FckTrump #Resist

✊🏽 Check for a No Kings protest near you and SHOW UP. Crowns are for queens during Pride season—not wannabe dictators trying to run this country like a monarchy. No thrones. No titles. No kings. #NoKings #CrownsForQueensOnly #ResistAndRise

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Edmund White—a trailblazing voice in LGBTQ+ literature and namesake of our Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. His legacy will continue to inspire generations of queer writers. Rest in power. 🕊️📚 #EdmundWhite #QueerLit #PublishingTriangle #LGBTQLegend

📅 Save the date! Celebrate NYC Pride with The Publishing Triangle & PRH LGBTQ+ Network! 🗓 Thurs, June 26 | 🕔 5–6:30PM 📍1745 Broadway, NYC Reading + signing by Jiaming Tang ✍️ Free books for first 50 guests! RSVP: publishingtriangle.org/2025/06/june...

🌈 Big news for #PrideMonth2025: this former Pier Queen just signed with agent Tom Miller at Liza Dawson Associates! Proud to be repped alongside legends like Charles Busch & Olympia Dukakis. Find me here: www.lizadawsonassociates.com/adult-nonfic... 📸 1997, Pier Queen era #EmanuelXavier #QueerLit