The Big Texas Read featuring Jenny Browne

Online via Zoom

We're reading and discussing poet Jenny Browne's Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems, Vol 17, from the TCU Poet Laureate Series. This conversation will be moderated by Dallas-based poet Dr. Mag Gabbert.

Free

Navigating Craft and the Writing Life in 2021 with Reginald Gibbons, Urayoán Noel and Jasminne Mendez

Online via Zoom

Join this line-up of groundbreaking authors to hear from their recent work and enjoy a conversation on how they are navigating questions of identity, voice, form, and more, while making sure their stories flourish and have a place at the literary table in these complex, fraught times. How do their craft decisions infuse how they are creating their voices on the page? How are they initiating important conversations, asking pivotal questions, and renegotiating what kinds of stories can be heard? An audience Q&A will be a part of this event. Kick-off your weekend with this rich literary exchange and conversation.

Free

Poems for the Future — Myth and Spirit Make for Vision and Community

Online via Zoom

Join acclaimed New York City poet Patricia Spears Jones in a master class that explores the connection of myth and spirit in the creation of poems for and about the future. Whitman in his essay, “Democratic Vistas” charged poets with sustaining a credible and expansive democracy. But his road map and the myths he relied on no longer suffice.  

$135