Public Poetry Reading Series In-Person
Poetry comes alive the first Saturday of each month at 2 PM with readings performed by a creative mix of artists. Participants are invited to read a piece for Open Mic during featured poets intermission.
This free event will take place in-person at the Reading Room in the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School. Registration is required for this event.
This series is organized by Public Poetry and is presented in partnership with Houston Public Library.
- Date:
- Saturday, December 7, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Locations:
- African American History Research Center
- Age Group:
- Adults Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture
Aris Kian is Houston’s 6th Poet Laureate and ranked #2 in the 2023 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam. Previously an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, she received her MFA from the University of Houston. She won the 2022 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing for Students with Service to the Houston Literary Community, and among her many honors, she was also a 2019 Pushcart nominee and a 2020 Best of the Net finalist.
Kelan Nee is a poet and carpenter from Massachusetts. His awards and fellowships include a 2023 Gregory Djankian Scholarship awarded by The Adroit Journal, a 2022 Inprint C. Glenn Cambor fellowship, a 2022 Bread Loaf Contributor’s award, and Academy of American Poets prizes in 2021 and 2024. Nee's debut collection, Felling was the winner of the 2023 Vassar Miller prize. Presently he lives in Texas where he is pursuing PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He is the editor of Gulf Coast Journal.
Lisa Shen is a writer and spoken word artist, and the 2023-2025 Youth Poet Laureate of the City of Mississauga. She placed second at the 2023 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and was shortlisted for the 2023 League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award. Lisa has toured across North America, from California to New York. Her work can be found in Rattle, Zoeglossia, and Voicemail Poems. Her debut chapbook A Story Ending in Redwoods was recently published with Anstruther Press.
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their debut collection Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions, selected by Tyehimba Jess. Short Film is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Public Library. Iver’s poems have appeared in Adroit, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. Iver has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University. They are the Roger F. Murray Chair in Creative Writing at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.