UPCOMING EVENT
Monday, November 7, 6:30 pm
(Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet St)
Anna Badkhen will be in conversation with Kiese Laymon.
Anna Badkhen was born in the Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. She is the author of six previous books of nonfiction. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Barry Lopez Visiting Writer in Ethics and Community Fellowship, and a Joel R. Seldin Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility for writing about civilians in war zones.
Kiese Laymon is the author of the novel, Long Division and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. He is the founder of “The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,” a program aimed at getting Mississippi kids and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Wednesday, November 9, 6:30 pm
(Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet St)
Estanislao Lopez is the author of We Borrowed Gentleness(Alice James Books). His poems have been featured in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, The Slowdown Podcast, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Houston.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Monday, November 14, 7:30 pm
(Cullen Performance Hall, Univ of Houston)
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo will read from her new poetry collection Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years, followed by an on-stage conversation with Lupe Mendez, 2022 Texas Poet Laureate. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.
Joy Harjo is the first Native American to hold the position of U.S. Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo has also written two memoirs Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior and two children’s books, recorded seven albums, and created a one-woman show. Her many awards include the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, the American Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, November 17, 5:30 pm
(Roy G. Cullen Building, 2nd floor Reading Room, UH Campus)
Glass Mountain is a national undergraduate literary magazine run by undergraduates at UH. The reading will feature guest writers (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) with an open mic to follow. The reading will take place on Zoom—link to come.
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