Performing Words
Houston’s Reading Culture Ramps Up Stepping inside your local watering hole on a Friday night you might find it odd to stumble upon a live reading event, but if you have taken stock in Houston’s nighttime entertainment du jour, readings are all the rage, and they are not your grandmother’s [...]
Read MoreRising Writers in Houston
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 city, in southeast San Diego,” acknowledges Martinez, “You have to have a certain bravado, a toughness about you [...]
Read MorePortrait of a Writer
Inprint Celebrates 30 Years in Houston As a young writer, I dreamed I’d find a patron. She’d be blond and smartly dressed, a Lynn Wyatt type, and she’d take me under her well-formed wing and bake cookies while I pecked at the keys of a computer in a back room of her cold house. What [...]
Read MoreThe Three Beginnings of a Texas Poet Laureate
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 be the antithesis . . . (“Kites”) To be named Texas Poet Laureate is an honor bestowed on only one poet each year by the Texas Legislature. [...]
Read MoreReview: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
(A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson A few days after receiving my review copy of the revered blogger, Jenny Lawson’s new book, Let’s Pretend This [...]
Read MoreSeeing Both Ways
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 [...]
Read MoreCivic Reinvention
The Julia Ideson Library Renovation On December 5th, 2011 the City of Houston was given a beautiful jewel. After two years, 32 million dollars and a painstaking restoration [...]
Read MoreUnmapping Houston
Artists navigate the city’s geography You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to see. When you imagine Houston, at times [...]
Read MoreReview: Improbable Words
“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 want to read in bed at night or on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Poems require a different quality of reading commitment than other forms [...]
Read MoreThe 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 Viswanathan Saturday, March 24 – 2 pm: “The Wineslinger Chronicles” by Russell D. Kane THERE IS A LITTLE DOG IN THE [...]
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