National Poetry Month: Talking Poetry In-Person
In celebration of National Poetry Month, join Houston Public Library and Professor Mark Dow for Talking Poetry!
Talking Poetry is a poetry reading and discussion group which will meet once a week for four 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, April 14, 2026
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Flores Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults Seniors Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Author Talks / Book Clubs Classes & Education Holidays & Observances Spotlight Events
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).