Steven Reigns, the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, has published more than a dozen chapbooks as well as the collections ”Inheritance” and ”Your Dead Body Is My Welcome Mat.” A lecturer and teacher of writing workshops for LGBT youth and people living with HIV, Reigns edited ”My Life is Poetry,” showcasing his students’ work from the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors. His collection ”A Quilt for David” was published by City Lights, and his latest book, ”Outliving Michael,” has just been published by Moon Tide Press. He’s the board president of the Anaïs Nin Foundation, and here he takes the Book Pages Q&A.

Q. Please tell readers about your new book, “Outliving Michael.”

It’s a book about friendship, specifically mine with Michael Church, living in the ’90

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