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Steven Reigns

January 20, 2023

Steven Reigns (born 1975) is an American poet, artist and activist known for his poetry publications, his work as West Hollywood's first City Poet, his participatory art projects, his LGBT activism, and his scholarly work on Anaïs Nin.[1]

Steven Reigns
Born (1975-11-11) 11 November 1975 (age 47)
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
OccupationPoet, Educator
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe University of South Florida
Antioch University
Period21st Century
Genrepoetry
Notable worksA Quilt For David, Inheritance, The Gay Rub, In The Room, 3-Pack Jack
Notable awardsLos Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residency Grant for 2007, 2009, 2011-2015; City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship 2020; City Poet of West Hollywood 2014-2016

Biography

Early years

Reigns grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. From an early age, he sought refuge from a troubled home life in local libraries where he discovered the writers who would have a huge impact on his own work: Sapphire, Essex Hemphill, Dorothy Allison, Edmund White, Anaïs Nin, Amy Scholder, John Preston and Audre Lorde.

Career

Reigns graduated from the University of South Florida, where he wrote a bi-monthly column for TLW magazine, with a degree in Creative Writing. He also has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.[2]

Reigns is a fourteen-time recipient of the Los Angeles County Department of Cultural Affairs' Artist in Residency Grant.[3] He was elected as West Hollywood's inaugural City Poet for a two-year term beginning in October 2014.[4] He was selected as "Someone to Watch in 2015" by The Advocate Magazine.[5] Reigns was selected for a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship in 2020.[6]

Library Activism

Reigns has cited public libraries and librarians as a major influence on his development as an artist and activist. He has campaigned in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer programming in libraries.

In 2004 he organized 'Loving in Fear', an LGBQT literary event in response to Hillsborough County's lack of gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer programming.[7] He recounted the experience in a Watermark Magazine article about National Library Week.[8] He was the first to speak to the commissioners about their discriminatory policy at the library.[9]

He was Literary Director for The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Center of Tampa for two years.[10]

Reigns has been keynote speaker at Rollins College,[11] Stonewall Library,[12] and at the American Library Associations Annual Breakfast.[13] He facilitates the monthly Lambda Literary Foundation Book Club.[14]

HIV/AIDS Activism

Reigns worked as a certified (in Florida and California) HIV test counselor for over 10 years, testing more than 9000 people.[15] He contributed to a panel with Los Angeles County on standards of care for HIV. In 2011, he ran a support group that utilized film as a projective tool at Being Alive.[16]

In 2012, he published an essay in Frontiers Magazine on the need for new AIDS narratives in cinema and literature.[17] He published a poem about the so-called AIDS "Patient Zero" Gaëtan Dugas[18][19] and in 2018 hosted an event at West Hollywood Council Chambers discussing Dugas’ legacy.[20]

Reigns participated in a staged conversation about Keith Haring with Ann Magnuson at The Broad for World AIDS Day 2022.[21]

Artistic Projects

The Gay Rub

Main article: The Gay Rub

Reigns created The Gay Rub, a participatory art project in 2011 and has curated the project ever since.[22] The Gay Rub is a collection of rubbings taken from historically significant LGBTQ public markers, memorials, and monuments. Participants from around the world contribute rubbings of markers from their home city, along with commentary. There are currently more than 200 rubbings in the collection, which has toured major universities. The collection is the subject of The Gay Rub: A Documentary (2018) by Michael J. Saul.

Other Art Projects

Reigns has participated in several collaborative online projects, such as Heather Champs' Mirror Project[23] and Anni Holm's Getting My Name Out There.[24] He was also a character in Hilary Goldberg's In The Spotlight.

His artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the U.S.A including at The Advocate gallery part of Rainbow Gobblins exhibit in May 2007.[25]

From 2007 to 2014, Reigns undertook a 7 years living/art project under the mentorship of Linda Montano,[26] S(t)even Years.

Audio-visual Media

Reigns and his work have been featured in a variety of other media, including:

  • Cameo appearances as a "homo hommie" in Jonny McGovern's video Dickmatized [27] and as a partier in Texting on the Dance Floor [28]
  • Co-host of IMRU Radio, the nations longest running LGBT radio show [29] With some of his segments airing nationally on This Way Out[30]
  • Dean Littner directed a 64 min documentary on the My Life is Poetry Class [31][32]
  • His poem Domicilium [33] was put to music and performed by One Voice Chorus in North Carolina [34]
  • Two poems by Reigns are used in Hunter Lee Hughes' black-and-white feature film Guys Reading Poems.[35] Reigns is only one of two living poets whose work was used in the film. Recipe Box and Put Your Head on my Shoulder, both from his second collection Inheritance, are featured in the film[36][37]
  • Lines from Reigns’ poem Morning, West Hollywood were incorporated into vinyl art banners hung in the West Hollywood City Hall Community Plaza in 2016.[38] Reigns collaborated with artist MONCHO1929 for this project
  • Reigns was featured in Jenny Holzer’s SPEECH ITSELF (2022), a series of large-scale projections on the facades of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 610 Fifth Avenue, and 620 Fifth Avenue. SPEECH ITSELF marked the centenary of PEN America.[39]

Scholarly work

Reigns is an Anaïs Nin scholar[40] and has presented at The Sapphire Symposium.[41]

Anaïs Nin Scholarship

Reigns discovered Nin’s poetry at the age of sixteen and her work has had a profound influence on his career.[42] In February 2008, Reigns organized ‘Anaïs Nin@105’ at the Hammer Museum.[43] Reigns said, "Nin bonded and formed very deep friendships with women and men decades younger than her. Some of them are still living in Los Angeles and I thought it'd be wonderful to have them share their experiences with (Nin)."[44] Electronic musician Bebe Barron, who was championed by Nin early in her career, made her last public appearance at ‘Anaïs Nin@105’. Reigns spoke at Barron's memorial.[45]

Reigns combed through Nin's original diaries to investigate the validity of Bern Porter's claims of his sexual relationship in the 1930s with Anaïs Nin, which were published as a series of interviews in the 1990s. Reigns' essay refuting Porter's claims, Bern Porter's Wild Sexual Life with Anais Nin or Wild Imaginings? was published in Café in Space and Thinking of Anaïs Nin.[46][47]

Reigns' poem 'Anaïs Nin Never Bought a Car' was published in Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on Their Muses (2012).[48]

Reigns facilitated the 2010 re-release of a long out-of-circulation audio book by Nin. Reigns loaned his rare 1949 pink vinyl version of Nin reading her prose poem House of Incest, recorded by Louis and Bebe Barron, to their son Adam Barron. Adam Barron used it as the basis for a CD release.[49]

Reigns owns a large collection of Nin memorabilia and ephemera, including a copy of Marcel Proust's Albertine disparue, once owned by Nin.[50] In the book are lines underlined by Henry Miller with notes written in the margin by both Nin and Miller.[50]

Reigns organized and curated Anais Nin's Influence: Women who Knew Nin Talk About her Writing, Her Life and Their Friendship with Her at the West Hollywood Library in 2015.[51][52] Reigns said of Nin and the event: "The struggles of life, love, and artistry Nin documented in detail daily. Her life and writings are more relevant now than ever. Hearing firsthand from women who Nin is an exceptional experience."[53]

In January 2016, Reigns co-produced an event at Antioch University Santa Barbara, The Allure of Anaïs Nin.[54] He serves on the Anaïs Nin Foundation Board.[55]

Teaching

Reigns has taught writing workshops throughout his career. He began by teaching to LGBT youth groups across the United States,[56] followed by workshops for HIV+ people,.[57] He has taught poetry to LGBT Seniors at Los Angeles LGBT Center for many years. This workshop My Life is Poetry was the first of its kind in the country and resulted in a book of the students' writings edited by Reigns.[58] As part of his tenure as West Hollywood City Poet, he taught free writing workshops for National Poetry Month in West Hollywood, CA.[4] Filmmaker Dean Littner made a documentary about the 2013 My Life Is Poetry reading by Reigns' students.[32]

Publications

A Quilt For David

A Quilt for David (City Lights Books, 2021) ISBN 9780872868816

A Quilt For David explores the life of Florida dentist David J. Acer, who in 1990 was accused of infecting a patient (Kimberly Bergalis) with HIV. Reigns describes the work as “investigative poetry” as it is based on extensive research into Acer’s life and death, including interviews with those who knew him, as it played out against the AIDS hysteria of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In his poetry, Reigns challenges the media narrative of the time, which was that Acer infected his patients deliberately.[59]

Other Poetry Publications

Reigns has published two other books of poetry.

  • Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat (2001) ISBN 0-9714393-1-1[60]
  • Inheritance (2011) ISBN 978-0-9832931-2-5[61][62]

Inheritance was selected by Lambda Literary Foundation's My Story Book Club.[63][64]

Reigns has also published chapbooks:

His poetry is included in Velvet Mafia, a poetry chapbook on gay and lesbian response to war, Outside the Green Zone. Reigns was featured as Mr. November in the Most Intriguing and Sensual Male Poet Calendar(2006).

In June 2008, Reigns edited the anthology My Life is Poetry, a book of autobiographical poetry by gay, lesbian, and bisexual seniors created by those attending his workshops of the same name. The poems are accompanied by photographic portraits by Jenny Walters. The preface was written by Dorothy Allison.[65][66]

In July 2015, Reigns edited 3-Pack Jack, a three book set based on his 2013 curation of the Apt3F performance series at Akbar, Los Angeles.[67]

Other Work

  • Reigns wrote an article in defense of transgender writer and activist Kate Bornstein[68]
  • Reigns' short storyOn These Sheets is included in the Foolish Hearts anthology[69] a Rainbow Book Finalist[69][70][71]

Reigns' papers are held by the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries.[72]

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See also

  • Official Steven Reigns Web-site

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This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia s quality standards You can help The talk page may contain suggestions March 2019 Steven Reigns born 1975 is an American poet artist and activist known for his poetry publications his work as West Hollywood s first City Poet his participatory art projects his LGBT activism and his scholarly work on Anais Nin 1 Steven ReignsBorn 1975 11 11 11 November 1975 age 47 St Louis Missouri USAOccupationPoet EducatorNationalityAmericanAlma materThe University of South FloridaAntioch UniversityPeriod21st CenturyGenrepoetryNotable worksA Quilt For David Inheritance The Gay Rub In The Room 3 Pack JackNotable awardsLos Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residency Grant for 2007 2009 2011 2015 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship 2020 City Poet of West Hollywood 2014 2016 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early years 1 2 Career 1 3 Library Activism 1 4 HIV AIDS Activism 2 Artistic Projects 2 1 The Gay Rub 2 2 Other Art Projects 2 3 Audio visual Media 3 Scholarly work 3 1 Anais Nin Scholarship 4 Teaching 5 Publications 5 1 A Quilt For David 5 2 Other Poetry Publications 5 3 Other Work 6 References 7 See alsoBiography EditEarly years Edit Reigns grew up in the suburbs of St Louis Missouri From an early age he sought refuge from a troubled home life in local libraries where he discovered the writers who would have a huge impact on his own work Sapphire Essex Hemphill Dorothy Allison Edmund White Anais Nin Amy Scholder John Preston and Audre Lorde Career Edit Reigns graduated from the University of South Florida where he wrote a bi monthly column for TLW magazine with a degree in Creative Writing He also has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University 2 Reigns is a fourteen time recipient of the Los Angeles County Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residency Grant 3 He was elected as West Hollywood s inaugural City Poet for a two year term beginning in October 2014 4 He was selected as Someone to Watch in 2015 by The Advocate Magazine 5 Reigns was selected for a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship in 2020 6 Library Activism Edit Reigns has cited public libraries and librarians as a major influence on his development as an artist and activist He has campaigned in support of gay lesbian bisexual and queer programming in libraries In 2004 he organized Loving in Fear an LGBQT literary event in response to Hillsborough County s lack of gay lesbian bisexual or queer programming 7 He recounted the experience in a Watermark Magazine article about National Library Week 8 He was the first to speak to the commissioners about their discriminatory policy at the library 9 He was Literary Director for The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Center of Tampa for two years 10 Reigns has been keynote speaker at Rollins College 11 Stonewall Library 12 and at the American Library Associations Annual Breakfast 13 He facilitates the monthly Lambda Literary Foundation Book Club 14 HIV AIDS Activism Edit Reigns worked as a certified in Florida and California HIV test counselor for over 10 years testing more than 9000 people 15 He contributed to a panel with Los Angeles County on standards of care for HIV In 2011 he ran a support group that utilized film as a projective tool at Being Alive 16 In 2012 he published an essay in Frontiers Magazine on the need for new AIDS narratives in cinema and literature 17 He published a poem about the so called AIDS Patient Zero Gaetan Dugas 18 19 and in 2018 hosted an event at West Hollywood Council Chambers discussing Dugas legacy 20 Reigns participated in a staged conversation about Keith Haring with Ann Magnuson at The Broad for World AIDS Day 2022 21 Artistic Projects EditThe Gay Rub Edit Main article The Gay Rub Reigns created The Gay Rub a participatory art project in 2011 and has curated the project ever since 22 The Gay Rub is a collection of rubbings taken from historically significant LGBTQ public markers memorials and monuments Participants from around the world contribute rubbings of markers from their home city along with commentary There are currently more than 200 rubbings in the collection which has toured major universities The collection is the subject of The Gay Rub A Documentary 2018 by Michael J Saul Other Art Projects Edit Reigns has participated in several collaborative online projects such as Heather Champs Mirror Project 23 and Anni Holm s Getting My Name Out There 24 He was also a character in Hilary Goldberg s In The Spotlight His artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the U S A including at The Advocate gallery part of Rainbow Gobblins exhibit in May 2007 25 From 2007 to 2014 Reigns undertook a 7 years living art project under the mentorship of Linda Montano 26 S t even Years Audio visual Media Edit Reigns and his work have been featured in a variety of other media including Cameo appearances as a homo hommie in Jonny McGovern s video Dickmatized 27 and as a partier in Texting on the Dance Floor 28 Co host of IMRU Radio the nations longest running LGBT radio show 29 With some of his segments airing nationally on This Way Out 30 Dean Littner directed a 64 min documentary on the My Life is Poetry Class 31 32 His poem Domicilium 33 was put to music and performed by One Voice Chorus in North Carolina 34 Two poems by Reigns are used in Hunter Lee Hughes black and white feature film Guys Reading Poems 35 Reigns is only one of two living poets whose work was used in the film Recipe Box and Put Your Head on my Shoulder both from his second collection Inheritance are featured in the film 36 37 Lines from Reigns poem Morning West Hollywood were incorporated into vinyl art banners hung in the West Hollywood City Hall Community Plaza in 2016 38 Reigns collaborated with artist MONCHO1929 for this project Reigns was featured in Jenny Holzer s SPEECH ITSELF 2022 a series of large scale projections on the facades of 30 Rockefeller Plaza 610 Fifth Avenue and 620 Fifth Avenue SPEECH ITSELF marked the centenary of PEN America 39 Scholarly work EditReigns is an Anais Nin scholar 40 and has presented at The Sapphire Symposium 41 Anais Nin Scholarship Edit Reigns discovered Nin s poetry at the age of sixteen and her work has had a profound influence on his career 42 In February 2008 Reigns organized Anais Nin 105 at the Hammer Museum 43 Reigns said Nin bonded and formed very deep friendships with women and men decades younger than her Some of them are still living in Los Angeles and I thought it d be wonderful to have them share their experiences with Nin 44 Electronic musician Bebe Barron who was championed by Nin early in her career made her last public appearance at Anais Nin 105 Reigns spoke at Barron s memorial 45 Reigns combed through Nin s original diaries to investigate the validity of Bern Porter s claims of his sexual relationship in the 1930s with Anais Nin which were published as a series of interviews in the 1990s Reigns essay refuting Porter s claims Bern Porter s Wild Sexual Life with Anais Nin or Wild Imaginings was published in Cafe in Space and Thinking of Anais Nin 46 47 Reigns poem Anais Nin Never Bought a Car was published in Divining Divas 100 Gay Poets on Their Muses 2012 48 Reigns facilitated the 2010 re release of a long out of circulation audio book by Nin Reigns loaned his rare 1949 pink vinyl version of Nin reading her prose poem House of Incest recorded by Louis and Bebe Barron to their son Adam Barron Adam Barron used it as the basis for a CD release 49 Reigns owns a large collection of Nin memorabilia and ephemera including a copy of Marcel Proust s Albertine disparue once owned by Nin 50 In the book are lines underlined by Henry Miller with notes written in the margin by both Nin and Miller 50 Reigns organized and curated Anais Nin s Influence Women who Knew Nin Talk About her Writing Her Life and Their Friendship with Her at the West Hollywood Library in 2015 51 52 Reigns said of Nin and the event The struggles of life love and artistry Nin documented in detail daily Her life and writings are more relevant now than ever Hearing firsthand from women who Nin is an exceptional experience 53 In January 2016 Reigns co produced an event at Antioch University Santa Barbara The Allure of Anais Nin 54 He serves on the Anais Nin Foundation Board 55 Teaching EditReigns has taught writing workshops throughout his career He began by teaching to LGBT youth groups across the United States 56 followed by workshops for HIV people 57 He has taught poetry to LGBT Seniors at Los Angeles LGBT Center for many years This workshop My Life is Poetry was the first of its kind in the country and resulted in a book of the students writings edited by Reigns 58 As part of his tenure as West Hollywood City Poet he taught free writing workshops for National Poetry Month in West Hollywood CA 4 Filmmaker Dean Littner made a documentary about the 2013 My Life Is Poetry reading by Reigns students 32 Publications EditA Quilt For David Edit A Quilt for David City Lights Books 2021 ISBN 9780872868816A Quilt For David explores the life of Florida dentist David J Acer who in 1990 was accused of infecting a patient Kimberly Bergalis with HIV Reigns describes the work as investigative poetry as it is based on extensive research into Acer s life and death including interviews with those who knew him as it played out against the AIDS hysteria of the late 1980s and early 1990s In his poetry Reigns challenges the media narrative of the time which was that Acer infected his patients deliberately 59 Other Poetry Publications Edit Reigns has published two other books of poetry Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat 2001 ISBN 0 9714393 1 1 60 Inheritance 2011 ISBN 978 0 9832931 2 5 61 62 Inheritance was selected by Lambda Literary Foundation s My Story Book Club 63 64 Reigns has also published chapbooks Ignited 2006 ISBN 978 0 9714393 3 7 Cartography 2007 Stu 2014 His poetry is included in Velvet Mafia a poetry chapbook on gay and lesbian response to war Outside the Green Zone Reigns was featured as Mr November in the Most Intriguing and Sensual Male Poet Calendar 2006 In June 2008 Reigns edited the anthology My Life is Poetry a book of autobiographical poetry by gay lesbian and bisexual seniors created by those attending his workshops of the same name The poems are accompanied by photographic portraits by Jenny Walters The preface was written by Dorothy Allison 65 66 In July 2015 Reigns edited 3 Pack Jack a three book set based on his 2013 curation of the Apt3F performance series at Akbar Los Angeles 67 Other Work Edit Reigns wrote an article in defense of transgender writer and activist Kate Bornstein 68 Reigns short storyOn These Sheets is included in the Foolish Hearts anthology 69 a Rainbow Book Finalist 69 70 71 Reigns papers are held by the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries 72 References Edit Steven Reigns Steven Reigns Get More Gay Queer Artist Centerfold Steven 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