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, October 4, 2025
- 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
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.
Adrián Pachuca is a queer, Latinx poet, editor and educator from Houston, TX. He’s a recent graduate from the University of Houston’s MFA program with a degree in poetry. Their work is forthcoming in Poetry is Currency. When they are not writing, they can be found working on poetry submissions with their lovely cat (and editor), Senator Doglas.
Madison Petaway (Maddie P.) is a performance poet from Houston, Texas, whose work grapples with the education system, mental illness, and the black experience. At 16, Maddie was named Houston’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate and had her poem “To Be a Black Girl” published in New York Times the following year. McGraw Hill’s Digital Library “StudySync” would also publish the piece later that year. Moreover, Maddie is founder and president of a poetry club, “Diction Addiction,” at The University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated. She hopes to publish a book bringing attention to mental illness in the black community and establish a school for Black, Indigenous, People of Color with literary talent.
Randall J. Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Oversound Poetry, Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, and Nomadic Press. He has been anthologized in the Bodies Built For A Game Anthology by Prairie Schooner. His work is forthcoming in Gulf Coast. He has received a scholarship to attend the Tin House Summer Workshop and was awarded the Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend the Writers Week at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. His forthcoming collection City of Dis will be released in Fall 2025 by Texas Review Press. Currently, he leads Writers Who Aren’t Writing, a collective where Houston-area writers and artists gather to workshop their writing, exchange ideas, and find community support. He’s very excited for you.