San Antonio is hopping with poetry this month!  The Office of Cultural Affairs has a complete calendar of events.  Poems about birds, poems and vegetarian food, haiku hikes and free copies of The Wasteland.  What’s not to love? Check it out. And, if you are in Austin this weekend, also check out The Blanton Museum’s Poetry […]

Don’t miss the Artists for Obama gathering this Thursday, 2/28 from 6-8 pm at Ruta Maya!  Where else can you get organic coffee and good beer and have part of the cost donated to the Obama campaign? Nowhere. Where else can you get Cruz Ortiz to silkscreen your T-shirt with an original Obama graphic for $5?  Nowhere. Where else can you […]

Trinity’s Lennox Seminar Series, “Cultural Transgressions of the Immediate Kind,” is partnering with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center to bring Pat Mora to San Antonio this Monday evening, 2/18, @ 7pm.   Opening and closing music by Azul.   

Come hear Susan B.A. Somers-Willett read her poems, Wednesday, 2/13 @ 7  The author of two collections of poems, a former member of Austin’s Poetry Slam team and a critic who has written and spoken extensively about performance poetry, Somers-Willett is a versatile, lively and smart-as-hell poet. Trinity students Amanda Flores and Paul Wade will open.   […]

The Associated Writing Programs conference descends on NYC this weekend.  That means some 7000 (!) writers, new books and journals to buy and way too many good readings all scheduled at the same time.  So, if you are in New York, come on.  I’m doing a signing for The Second Reason and reading with a […]

Thanks to the hard work of Kathy Armstrong, Kiwis have landed in San Antonio this month.   Don’t miss the opening of Te Tataitanga/Bind Together: Contemporary Art of New Zealand, tonight at the Southwest School of Art and Craft.   There will be art.  There will be sausage and beer.  Also, as a part of a […]

Thanks to Stephen Burt and Rigoberto Gonzalez for their generous words about The Second Reason on the Poetry Foundation’s website, Harriet. p.s. They probably don’t know that our second reason is named Harriet.