Public Poetry exists to bring together the public and the poetry community, and to create a buzz about poetry. Join us for a free poetry reading series presented on the first Saturday of each month.
These interactive poetry events will feature local and visiting poets, and the occasional local celebrity or public figure. Poets will be available for Q&A and book signing at the end of each program.
The series is a partnership between Public Poetry and Houston Public Library.
Spring Series | Julia Ideson Building
Saturday, June 2 | 2 PM
Carolyn Tourney Florek is co-founder of Mutabilis Press. She is a poet, painter, and garden designer living in Houston since 1983. Her poetry has been published in The Texas Review, Illya’s Honey, Texas Poetry Calendar 2010, and past Houston Poetry Fest anthologies. Her work received an honorable mention in the 2010 Austin International Poetry Fest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, Secret Rites, was a finalist in the Dallas Poets Community annual chapbook competition.
Ken Jones has published three full-length poetry collections, half a dozen chapbooks and hundreds of individual poems in forums nationwide. He has been a finalist for the West Chester Poet’s Prize and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He earned an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a fulltime faculty member at the Art Institute of Houston.
Teresa Juarez graduated from Colorado College in 2005 with a degree in Creative Writing - Poetry. She was honored with the Evelyn Bridges Award for Poetry in 2004 and 2005. She has participated in organizing the Word Around Town Poetry Tour and various other poetry related projects around the city of Houston. She was featured at the Houston Grand Slam Poetry Competition in 2011, and her work has been published in The Hollins Critic.
Rebecca Wadlinger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Houston, where she works as the managing editor of Gulf Coast. Her writing and translations have appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, Mid-American Review, Kenyon Review, and the Best New Poets anthology series, among others. Rebecca received her M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied poetry and playwriting.
And there’s more! You can hear these poets again with new poetry in our Fall Series at Henington-Alief Regional Library, on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 2 PM.