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Summer Reading for Grown-Ups: Talking Poetry In-Person

Talking Poetry is a poetry reading and discussion group which will meet once a week for three sessions. We will read together and talk poetry. The poems will span hundreds of years, and they will probably talk back to us. All poems will be in English, but some might also be in Spanish or other languages, depending on the languages spoken by participants.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 

Date:
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time:
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Meeting Room
Locations:
Flores Neighborhood Library
Age Group:
  Adults     Seniors     Teens (13-18 yrs)  
Categories:
  Author Talks / Book Clubs     Summer Reading Program  

Registration is required. There are 13 seats available.

Mark Dow taught poetry and writing for many years at Hunter College/CUNY in New York. He was recently a visiting faculty member at the University of Houston Law Center, where he taught a course on poetry and interpretation. He also teaches English as a Second Language in Houston.

Dow is the author of a book of poems, Plain Talk Rising; an online chapbook, "Feedback" and Other Conversation Poems, and American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.

His poems and articles have appeared in Gulf Coast, New Humanist, New York Times, PN Review, SLAM! Wrestling, Texas Observer, Threepenny Review, and Word For/Word. He has also translated songs and poems from Spanish, Hebrew, and Haitian Creole.

Dow was born and raised in Houston, and he graduated from Yale University (1983) and the University of California, Irvine (1986).

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