Public Poetry Reading Series Online
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.
Registration is required for this virtual event. The Public Poetry Reading Series uses the Microsoft Team platform for virtual meetings. Participants using their smartphones or tablets will need to download the Microsoft Team app to participate. Participants using their computers will not need to download the Microsoft Teams app.
This series is organized by Public Poetry and is presented in partnership with Houston Public Library.
- Date:
- Saturday, August 3, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Age Group:
- Adults Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture
Soren Rivero (he/them) is a Houston-based versatile artist with a deep passion for poetry, writing, and dance. Soren graduated with a B.A in English from the University of Houston-Downtown in 2022, and is currently in pursuit of an MFA in Creative Writing. In his free time, Soren enjoys experimenting with poetry, reading, dancing, and playing with his rabbits. You can connect with Soren via Instagram: @sorenxr.
Esteban Rodríguez is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Lotería (Texas Review Press, 2023), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press, 2021). He is associate poetry editor at AGNI and senior book reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly. He lives with his family in south Texas.
Aliah Lavonne Tigh is an Iranian American author, teacher, artist, and their work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. The author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a chapbook with Tram Editions, their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. They have work forthcoming in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week and Gulf Coast Journal. Tigh has contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration, and their work has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. Tigh lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Jane Berg is a writer and photographer from South Africa who now divides her time between Houston, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at San José State University where she was recently the Managing Editor of Reed Magazine. Her work has been published in the Badilisha Poetry X-Change, deLuge Journal, Superstition Review, and is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review.