Perry Brass

From Savannah, GA, poet, novelist, playwright, and activist Perry Brass has published 16 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, plays, and fiction. He has had over 60 poems set to music by such composers as Chris DeBlasio, Fred Hersch, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Gerald Busby. He is featured in “All the Way Through Evening,” a documentary by Rohan Spong about young composers who’ve died of AIDS, named for his collaboration with Chris DeBlasio. In 1972, he co-founded the Gay Men's Health Project Clinic, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast, still operating as New York’s Callen-Lourde Community Health Center. His nonfiction books include The Manly Art of Seduction, an Amazon Kindle bestseller. His latest book is King of Angels, a Southern-gay-Jewish coming-of-age novel set in Savannah in 1963. He is currently a coordinator of the New York Rainbow Book Fair, the oldest LGBT book fair in the U.S., and is treasurer of the Greater New York Independent Publishers Association. He is currently working on a new book about desire and consciousness. For more information: www.perrybrass.com