I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Hustle a Beast: An Evening of Poetry
A Reading by Elizabeth Lyons, Karyna McGlynn, Frances Justine Post, and David Tomas Martinez at Brazos Bookstore.
Join us as we celebrate four years together in Houston: we've laughed,
we've cried, we've almost combusted, but we will soon have our PhD's.
We are especially excited because this will be the Houston debut
of DTM's HUSTLE and the Brazos debut of Justine's BEAST. And you never
want to miss Karyna reading from I HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1994 AND KILL A
GIRL and the scary good persona poems of Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH LYONS' poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Indiana Review and Salt Hill. She has won fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Vermont Studio Center and the I-Park Foundation, and has an MFA from Purdue University. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston and a non-fiction editor for Gulf Coast.
FRANCES JUSTINE POST
is the author of BEAST. She is currently earning her PhD in the Creative
Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she is a Poetry
Editor for Gulf Coast. She is the recipient of the Inprint Paul
Verlaine Poetry Prize from the University of Houston, the “Discovery” /
Boston Review Poetry Prize, and others. Her poems have recently appeared
in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,
The Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, and others.
DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ's
is the author of HUSTLE. His work has been published or is forth coming
in Forklift; Ohio, Poetry International, Gulf Coast, Drunken Boat,
RHINO, Ampersand, Caldera Review, Verse Junkies, California Journal of
Poetics, Toe Good, and others. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the University
of Houston's Creative Writing program, with an emphasis in Poetry.
Martinez is also the Reviews and Interviews Editor for Gulf Coast: A
Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, and a CantoMundo Fellow.
KARYNA MCGLYNN is the
author of I HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1994 AND KILL A GIRL, winner of the
Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, and two chapbooks. Her
poems have appeared in Fence, Salt Hill, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter,
Court Green, and The Poetry Foundation's Poem-a-Day. Karyna received
her MFA from the University of Michigan, and is currently the Managing
Editor of Gulf Coast and coordinator of the Houston Indie Book Fest.
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Brazos Book Clubs
APRIL MEETING
Meeting on Tuesday, April 25 at 6:30pm CT. Click here to register.
We will be joined by author Victor LaValle
MAY PICK
Meeting on May 13 at 3pm. Click here to register
We will be joined by author Tanita S. Davis