On March 17, 1997, The Kitchen hosted an evening of readings to benefit the Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series and hosted by Penny Arcade. Native Agents founder and editor Chris Kraus read from her book I Love Dick, Richard Hell read Cookie Mueller’s work, Eileen Myles read her work Not Me, Barbara Barg read from The Origin of Species by Homer Erotic, Eldon Garnet read Reading Brooke Shields, Ann Rower read her own work If You're a Girl, Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz read The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, Lynne Tillman read her work The Madame Realism Complex, and a film of David Rattray by Anney Bonney and Kathryn Greene screened.