The Little Dog Laughs
Three Reasons Brazos Bookstore Remains a Houston Literary Center Thursday, March 15 – 7 pm: “The Galveston Chronicles” by Audra Martin D’Aroma Saturday, March 17 – 2 pm: “Lingering Tide” by Latha...
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“Improbable Worlds, an Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets” Edited by Martha Serpas Mutabilis Press www.mutabilispress.org My problem is I never know when to read to poetry. It’s not something I...
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Artists navigate the city’s geography Grandma standing her ground from Ray Carrington III’s Eye on Third Ward project. You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to...
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The Julia Ideson Library Renovation Tudor Gallery inside of the Julia Ideson Library. Photo: Gensler. On December 5th, 2011 the City of Houston was given a beautiful jewel. After two years, 32 million...
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Lacy Johnson. COURTESY LACY JOHNSON. Lacy Johnson on Trespasses: A Memoir According to Lacy M. Johnson’s bio, she worked as “assistant-manager of a Wal-Mart Vision Center, sold steaks door-to-door, and...
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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by: Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess. Amy Einhorn: Putnam. (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson A few days after receiving my review copy of the...
View ArticleThe Three Beginnings of a Texas Poet Laureate
Poet Dave Parsons. Photo courtesy of Lone Star College. 2011 Texas Poet Laureate David M. Parsons Death is such an awesome / experience that it takes / your breath totally away. // I wish this poem to...
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Miah Arnold reading at King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. PHOTO: JOANN WONG. Inprint Celebrates 30 Years in Houston As a young writer, I dreamed I’d find a patron. She’d be blond and smartly...
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David Tomas Martinez.Photo by Karyna McGlyynn. Word Pusher: David Tomas Martinez Meeting David Tomas Martinez makes me wonder how many gang members are really frustrated poets. “Growing up in the inner...
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Junot Diaz rocking the Wortham as part ofInprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.PHOTO: DAVE EINSEL. Houston’s Reading Culture Ramps Up Stepping inside your local watering hole on a Friday night...
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