Join us for an April evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this April reading of 2024, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem by a poet who has been influential to their own sense of poetic craft.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers so far scheduled:

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Join us for a February evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this second reading of 2024, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing by a recipient of the Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Here is a list of those poets.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers so far scheduled:

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Join us for a January evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this first reading of 2024, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing by a favorite poet published elsewhere.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers so far scheduled:

Milton Jordan

Vincent Hostak

David Taylor

Donna Freeman

Kathryn Jones

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Join us for a December evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this final reading of 2023, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing related to the topic of Winter by any other poet published elsewhere.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

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Join us for an Autumn evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this Fall evening, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing related to the topic of Autumn by another poet published elsewhere.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/bpp-hyvc-ytf

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Join us for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this occasion, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing by another poet published elsewhere.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers so far:

Kathryn Jones

Jan Seale

Janelle Curlin-Taylor

Jeffrey L. Taylor

Milton Jordan

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For this special Feeding Texas fundraising event, Laurence Musgrove, editor of Texas Poetry Assignment, will read poems he composed during his June 2023 Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Taiwan and more recently collected in a chapbook manuscript titled The Dogs of Alishan and Other Poems from Taiwan.

During this Fulbright-Hays Seminar with 15 other U.S. college faculty and staff, Laurence visited Taipei and other majors cities, their museums, universities, parks, and temples, as well as indigenous sites throughout the island while also attending seminars and lectures on Taiwanese history, politics, identity, and economics delivered by Taiwanese faculty, government officials, and journalists.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad program is designed to inspire international cultural exchange and new curriculum projects that include material from and on the host country.

At this event, Laurence will present some of these chapbook poems and share highlights of his experience abroad.

Attendees will be encouraged to donate to Feeding Texas. The Feeding Texas network is the largest hunger-relief organization in Texas. Together with 21 member food banks, it reaches over 5 million Texans annually with food and resources.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please invite others.

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/gjg-emep-wsz

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Join us for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this occasion, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem of their choosing by another poet published elsewhere.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers scheduled so far:

Milton Jordan

Cathy Hailey

Vincent Hostak

Kathryn Jones

Janelle Curlin-Taylor

Jeffrey Taylor

Alan Steelman

Jesse Doiron

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/geh-cbuh-oes

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Join us for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this occasion, contributors will be asked to read two poems, a recently published Texas Poetry Assignment poem plus another poem of their choosing by another poet published elsewhere.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers scheduled to read so far:

Milton Jordan

Jan Seale

Janelle Curlin-Taylor

Jeffrey L. Taylor

Jesse Doiron

Vincent Hostak

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/qtz-daje-hws

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Organized by Jim LaVilla-Havelin, our next reading from contributors to Lone Star Poetry will be 6 pm, Saturday, May 27 at the Poetic Republic Coffee Co. 2300 S. Presa Street, San Antonio, Texas.

If you would like to read or just join us at this event in support of hunger relief in Texas, please email Jim at lavhav@gmail.com.

Join us for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this occasion, we will remember our friend and fellow poet, Carol Coffee Reposa.

TPA contributors will be asked to read one of their poems recently published in Texas Poetry Assignment and if they wish a poem by Carol, who recently passed.

Carol was the 2018 Texas Poet Laureate and TPA contributing poet.

The poems, reviews, and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa have appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, The Texas Observer, Southwestern American Literature, The Valparaiso Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Author of five books of poetry—At the Border: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts of Life, Underground Musicians, and New and Selected Poems 2018—Reposa was a finalist in The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest (1992), and winner of the San Antonio Public Library Arts & Letters Award (2015).

She also has received five Pushcart Prize nominations in addition to Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. She was also a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and of the editorial staff at Voices de la Luna.

Seven of Carol’s poems have appeared in TEJASCOVIDO, Texas Poetry Ballots, and Texas Poetry Assignment, and two of these are included in our anthology Lone Star Poetry.

A Covid-19 Sacrament

Inaugural Incantation 2021

Pledge 2020

January 6, 2021: After the Storm

San Diego, 1945

Bandera Road Fantasy

Math Puzzle

If you would like to read at this special event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

Guests are welcome to attend.

Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Readers scheduled to read so far:

Betsy Joseph

Chip Dameron

Jan Seale

Milton Jordan

Kathryn Jones

Jesse Doiron

Jeffrey L. Taylor

Janelle Curlin-Taylor

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Please join us for a contributor reading of selections from Lone Star Poetry, a Texas Poetry Assignment publication in cooperation with Kallisto Gaia Press, with proceeds benefiting FEEDING TEXAS. Big Texas thanks to Lone Star Poetry contributing editor Melanie Alberts for organizing this event.

Join us for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this occasion, contributors will be asked to read two poems, a recently published Texas Poetry Assignment poem plus another poem of their choosing by another poet published elsewhere.

Readers might consider selecting poems on the same topics as recent assignments, such as the Moon, letters, landscapes, or teachers.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

All are welcome to attend. Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

Contributors will be asked to read one of their poems from the anthology. Readers scheduled so far:

Milton Jordan

Vincent Hostak

Kathryn Jones

Shelley Armitage

Sarah Webb

Chip Dameron

Chris Ellery

Roberta Shellum Dohse

Robert Allen

Jeffrey Taylor

Janelle Curlin-Taylor

Google Meet joining info:

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rot-kxan-wws

Or dial: ‪(US) +1 318-744-4300‬ PIN: ‪932 982 220‬#

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Join us for a special book release event and reading from Lone Star Poetry.

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This book release event will include an interview with frequent Texas Poetry Assignment contributor Katherine Hoerth and her reading of selections from her new collection Flare Stacks in Full Bloom.

AGENDA

1. Laurence's Welcome and Introduction of Katie

2. Katie reads 3 poems

3. Laurence asks questions

4. Katie reads 2 poems

5. Questions or comments from participants

6. BREAK for 5

7. Katie reads 2 poems

8. Laurence asks questions

9. Katie reads 1 poem

10. Goodnight

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. This region, sometimes called “Cancer Alley,” is home to the nation’s largest oil refinery. It has also been on the front lines of climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, the historic flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda, and just last year, Hurricanes Laura and Delta. It’s a region that feels the tension of climate change: economically, it is dependent on the oil industry, the same industry that poisons its citizens and threatens its lands existence as sea levels rise. Flare Stacks in Full Bloom explores this tension through a chronicle of Hurricane Harvey—before, during, and after the storm, through formal poetry (sonnets, villanelles, and blank verse narratives).

Katherine Hoerth is the author of four poetry collections: Borderland Mujeres (SFA University Press, 2021) The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue (Angelina River Press, 2018), Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots (Lamar University Literary Press, 2014), and The Garden Uprooted (Slough Press, 2012). She is the 2015 recipient of the Helen C. Smith Prize for the best book of poetry in Texas and the 2017 Langdon Review Writer in Residence. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines including Summerset Review, Valparaiso Review, and Southwestern American Literature. In 2017, Katherine joined the English and Modern Language department at Lamar University as an Assistant Professor of creative writing and Editor-in-Chief of Lamar University Literary Press. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and lives in Beaumont.

Please join us with the link and information below:

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This reading event will feature contributor selections from 5 recent TPA assignments:

#31 Here and Now

#30 Steering the Beast

#29 Justice Supreme

#28 Welcome to Texas

#27 Texas Shootings

Readers will be asked to read two poems: their poem from these assignments and another poem of their choosing by any other author published elsewhere.

If you would like to read at this event, please let Laurence know at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

Contributors scheduled to read:

Milton Jordan, Shelley Armitage, Charlotte Muse, Vincent Hostak, Kathryn Jones, Dan Williams, Kathryn Merry, Elisa Garza, Janelle Curlin-Taylor, Alan Berecka, Antoinette F. Winstead

All are welcome to attend.

Please also consider inviting other poets you know to join our events and community.

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/rtt-jgtb-kcf

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This reading event will feature the book release of Relatively Speaking, a new collection of poems by brother and sister poets and frequent Texas Poetry Assignment contributors, Chip Dameron and Betsy Joseph. Join us to celebrate their new volume of poems.

Here is the back cover blurb by Laurence Musgrove for this collection:

I've been very happy to spend time with brother and sister, Chip and Betsy, in this poetry collaboration Relatively Speaking. When I hear siblings described as "so different from one another" as if it is a surprise, I wonder how it could be any other way. In this case, Chip is the naturalist and Betsy, the ventriloquist. Chip's naming is neatly precise, Betsy's women are unsilenced at last. What they celebrate together is the fragile and unbreakable within us and without.

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This TPA contributor reading event will ask contributing poets to read two poems. The first poem would be from recent assignments, including #27 Texas Shootings, #26 Anaphora Poems, #25 Texas Odes, and #22 Extinctual Thinking. The second poem would be any poem of the reader’s choosing that is composed by another poet.

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/rnp-beaj-yqz

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READERS

Session 1: Milton Jordan, Kathryn Jones, Vincent Hostak, Melanie Alberts, Chris Ellery, Jan Seale, Walter Bargen

15-minute break

Session 2: Dario Beniquez, Betsy Joseph, Robert Allen, Roberta Dohse, Jeffrey Taylor, Sarah Webb, Zan Green, Tom Quitzau, Karen Cline-Tardiff, Jesse Doiron

This TPA contributor reading event will ask poets to read two poems. The first poem is the dialogue poem they’ve contributed to that series, and the second will be any poem of their choice written by another poet.

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This TPA contributor reading event will ask poets to read two poems. The first poem will be the poem they’ve published in the War Poetry assignment series. The second poem will be a poem written by another poet on the topic of war.

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/wqs-emys-fyz
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This reading event by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors will include poems from the On Edge assignment and selections from the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye.

The meeting link via Google Meet is https://meet.google.com/occ-apvu-tjv

First Annual Celebration of Texas Poetry Assignment with readings from contributors who will read two poems: one of their own published by Texas Poetry Assignment and another poem written by any other Texas poet.

Readers include:

Janelle-Curlin Taylor 

Milton Jordan 

Robert Allen 

Darby Riley 

Jeffrey Taylor 

Kathryn Jones 

Chip Dameron  

Betsy Joseph 

Melanie Alberts 

Antoinette F. Winstead 

Loretta Diane Walker 

Alan Berecka 

Sarah Webb 

Sumera Saleem 

Thomas Quitzau 

Jesse Doiron 

This meeting will be accessible through Google Meet:

First Annual TPA Contributor Reading

Sunday, January 9, 2022 · 7:00 – 9:00pm

Google Meet joining info

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zit-mfks-cfr

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Texas Poetry Assignment welcomes Loretta Diane Walker for a special interview and areading from her latest collection of poems from Blue Light Press Day Begins When Darkness is in Full Bloom.

Join us via Zoom:

https://zoom.us/j/98613551012

Meeting ID: 986 1355 1012

Passcode: loretta

A Texas Poetry Assignment contributor reading from poems accepted in the Texas Thanks assignment.

For this event, poets will read two poems: (1) their Texas Thanks poem published by TPA, and (2) another poem they are grateful to have encountered in their lives.

Contact Laurence at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org if you would like to read.

The link to join the reading event is below.

https://zoom.us/j/94418757885

Meeting ID: 944 1875 7885

Passcode: Gracias

For this Texas Poetry Assignment reading, poets are invited to read two poems: a poem they’ve composed in response to the Texas Friends assignment plus a second poem written by another poet on friendship.

Contact Laurence at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org if you would like to read.

Join the Zoom Meeting below:

https://zoom.us/j/98407046849

Meeting ID: 984 0704 6849

Passcode: friendship

At this TPA contributor reading via Zoom, readers will share 2 poems: one by another TPA contributor published in TPA and the second, a poem from any source that broadened their appreciation of the beauty and power of poetic language. Contact Laurence at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org if you would like to read.

https://zoom.us/j/94425955342

Meeting ID: 944 2595 5342

Passcode: tpareading

Readings by TPA Contributors from recent and future assignments. Contact Laurence here to signup.

Readers include Milton Jordan, Robert Allen, Thomas Quitzau, Jan Seale, Jesse Doiron, Alan Berecka, Sarah Webb, Dan Williams, Jeffrey Taylor, Janelle Curlin-Taylor, and Maria Miranda Maloney.

Here is the Zoom link and passcode:

https://zoom.us/j/96042727759

Passcode: TPAreading