Emanuel Xavier
@emanuelxavier
Poet, author, and LGBTQ+ activist. Exploring identity, resilience, and survival through storytelling and art.
Honored to have my poem “What I Wanted You To Be” featured in the latest issue of Latino Book Review. The poem also appears in my new collection, Still, We Are Sacred. Thank you for supporting Latinx literature. ❤️ www.latinobookreview.com a.co/d/07etzKNy
Grateful for these powerful words from poet John Compton about Still, We Are Sacred. Discover the collection: 📖 Amazon: a.co/d/0gdW1wmZ 📚 Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/stil... Thank you for supporting independent poetry, independent bookstores, and independent presses.
I’ll be performing in Translating Sonnets on Friday, July 31, at 8 PM at JACK in Brooklyn. Actors perform Shakespeare’s original sonnets. Poets respond with contemporary reinterpretations. I’m honored to be part of this incredible lineup. Free admission. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/translatin...
The Nuyorican Poets Café gave me one of my first homes as a poet. I’m honored by these words from Caridad de la Luz, Executive Director of the Café, about Still, We Are Sacred. Discover the collection: Amazon: a.co/d/0gdW1wmZ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/stil...
3 weeks from today I’ll be performing in Translating Sonnets with Paola Alexandra Soto at JACK Theater in Brooklyn. Shakespeare meets contemporary poetry in this free event presented by Creating Space and ¡Oye! Group. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/translatin... Still, We Are Sacred: a.co/d/07piqmWD
Circa 1998 with the House of Xavier, Willi Ninja, and his beautiful mom. My vision was never just ballroom. It was poetry, chosen family, and community. That journey eventually led to The Glam Slam and now Still, We Are Sacred. 📚 a.co/d/08FDNu8C
Throwback to 1998 or 1999 at an AIDS benefit in NYC with Rosie Perez. Pride wasn’t always corporate floats and rainbow merch. For many of us, it was activism, survival, and showing up for a community in crisis. Those experiences helped shape Still, We Are Sacred: a.co/d/07uASwXV
A poem that didn’t make the book, “VapoRub” was printed as a limited broadside. I’ve set aside 10 copies for readers. Buy Still, We Are Sacred on Amazon, send proof of purchase + your mailing address to emanuelxavier9@gmail.com and I’ll mail you a signed copy while they last. 📚 a.co/d/08FDNu8C
After more than 30 years of Pride celebrations, I’ll be sharing two poems as a guest speaker at Greater Bridgeport Pride this Saturday. bridgeportpride.com Still, We Are Sacred: amazon.com/dp/1636282149
A moment from my reading at the Flower City Poetry Festival in Rochester. Still, We Are Sacred is still finding its readers through word of mouth, community, and conversations like these. If you’ve read it, a review helps. If you haven’t, I hope you’ll spend some time with it. a.co/d/0gdW1wmZ
A clip from my reading of “Sacred Without Permission” from Still, We Are Sacred at the Flower City Poetry Festival. Thank you to Writers & Books for making the festival possible. If the poem resonates, the book is available here: a.co/d/0gdW1wmZ
Rochester, tonight. I’ll be reading from Still, We Are Sacred at the Flower City Poetry Fest with Amanda Eke, youth poets, TYES, and the Rochester Oratorio Society. 6–8:30 PM If it rains, we move indoors to Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs Street. Free and open to all. wab.org/event/flower...
Two months later, Still, We Are Sacred is still finding its readers. Thank you to everyone who has supported the book, reviewed it, shared it, or helped carry it forward. Still, we are here. Still, we are sacred. a.co/d/0gdW1wmZ
Grateful for this thoughtful Bay Area Reporter interview on Still, We Are Sacred, survival, legacy, queer Latinx identity, and the journey that brought me here. Thank you, Michele Karlsberg. Interview: www.ebar.com/story/166782... Book: a.co/d/04tEy7x6
Several years ago my image was included in Gabriel García Román’s LGBTQ icons of color exhibit at NYC Pride. Still here. Still writing. Still sacred. Read more: www.npr.org/sections/cod... Still, We Are Sacred: a.co/d/02bwpGq3
Very excited to share VapoRub, a limited-edition collaboration with artist Tino Rodriguez for Old Town Press’ new Drop A Single Poetry Series. Inspired by a conversation with Steven Canals, now gets to live as its own little art object 💙 Order Still, We Are Sacred: a.co/d/08FDNu8C
This Saturday, come find me at the Rainbow Book Fair. I’ll be signing Still, We Are Sacred at the Rebel Satori Press table. Stop by, say hello, get your book signed, or pick one up while you’re there. 2–3 PM The LGBT Center, NY
Thank you for all the birthday love yesterday. I felt it. Grateful to still be here, still writing, still held by community. If you want to keep that love going, pick up Still, We Are Sacred, leave a review, share it, teach it, pass it on. That’s how the work lives.
It’s my birthday. Grateful to still be here. Still writing. Still becoming. Still, We Are Sacred: a.co/d/0hNs07S3
Enter to win a FREE copy of “Still, We Are Sacred” courtesy of @eriegaynews.com
Still We Are Sacred sitting on the shelf alongside the journey—years of books, words, and becoming. And this candle? “Smells Like a Published Author.” I’ll take it.
Two book launches. One week. April 23 — Stonewall Visitor Center (NYC) In conversation with Jennie Livingston April 24 — Possible Futures (New Haven) With PRISM at SCSU Free events. If you RSVP’d — please show up. NYC: www.eventbrite.com/e/emanuel-xa... NHV: www.eventbrite.com/e/still-we-a...
Still We Are Sacred briefly hit the top spots on Amazon’s New Release lists for LGBTQ+ Poetry and Hispanic American Poetry. From the margins to the algorithm. We move. Thank you to everyone supporting, sharing, and reading. a.co/d/04j5nHO0
Grateful for a beautiful afternoon at South Beach Library today. Thank you to everyone who showed up, shared, and made the poetry workshop such a powerful, community-centered space. Support your libraries and your librarians. Special thanks to NYPL and the Nuyorican Poets Café.