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The Hidden State Workshop
Mar
15

The Hidden State Workshop

THE HIDDEN STATE: THE RHETORIC OF POETIC CAMOUFLAGE (PILOT V0.9)

A Technical Inquiry into Discursive Risk Mitigation & Institutional Alignment

I. PROJECT OVERVIEW

THE HIDDEN STATE is a technical pilot (v0.9) exploring the Rhetoric of Poetic Camouflage (RPC). In response to the shifting legislative and administrative landscape in Texas higher education (Ref: HB 2339), this project develops a heuristic framework for researchers and creative practitioners to maintain structural integrity and public autonomy within high-scrutiny environments.

II. DOCUMENTED ASSET: IMG-001.2 (SOP-012)

Image Analysis Descriptor:

  • Asset ID: IMG-001.2 (Multi-Layered Optical Shell)

  • Status: Administrative Asset / Working Draft

  • Technical Summary: This figure illustrates the optimization of variable visibility through a multi-layered optical shell. The exterior pattern utilizes high-frequency environmental noise to achieve maximum institutional alignment. The central focal point denotes the structural integrity of the core research data (The Heartbeat).

III. SCHOLARLY ANCHORS & NATIONAL REACH

This pilot is the direct evolution of 2023 Fulbright-Hays research into the Taiwan White Terror (1949–1987). By mapping the historical tactics of the Taiwan Garrison Command against modern administrative language, we provide a "proven" lineage for discursive resilience.

As a national organization within the NCTE, the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL) recognizes this project’s reach into curriculum development and advocacy for professional standing.

IV. THE FOUR-OPTION HEURISTIC

Workshop participants (Co-Investigators) will experiment with four distinct rhetorical registers designed to "jacket" vulnerable creative signals:

  1. Option 1 (Environmental): Utilizing botanical and topographical "noise" (e.g., The Adrienne Rich Case Study).

  2. Option 2 (Historical): Utilizing chronological displacement and archival parallels.

  3. Option 3 (Kinetic): Utilizing meter, rhythm, and acoustic structures as the primary carrier.

  4. Option 4 (Bureaucratic): Utilizing "Over-Compliance" and administrative legalese (e.g., The Mirror Cipher HB ####).

V. PILOT LOGISTICS (MARCH 15)

  • Objective: To generate a "Sample Portfolio" of camouflaged texts for a 2027-2028 Fulbright Scholar Award application.

  • Methods: Data-driven peer feedback, signal-to-noise analysis, and "Mirror Cipher" stress-testing.

  • Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST

  • Platform: Secure Digital Briefing Room


REGISTRATION & INQUIRIES: Please contact the Project Lead at editor@texaspoetryassignment.org.

Note: This workshop is a scholarly inquiry. All generated data is for pilot research purposes only.“The Hidden State” Workshop








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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
Mar
1

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, March 1, 2026, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this March reading of 2026, contributors will be asked to read two poems: one of their own poems recently published by TPA and a second poem on some aspect of the night sky by another poet.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a brief poetry workshop on a forthcoming assignment.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
Jan
18

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, January 18, 2026, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors. This event will include both contributor readings and memorial reflections on Milton Jordan, one of our most frequent contributors, who passed on December 23, 2025.

For this first reading of 2026, contributors will be asked to read two poems: one of their own poems recently published by TPA and a second poem on the topic of joy by another poet.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a brief poetry workshop on a forthcoming assignment.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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

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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
Nov
30

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, November 30, 2025, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors. This event will include both contributor readings and a generative workshop on a future TPA assignment related to Pre-Texas.

For this November reading of 2025, contributors will be asked to read one poem of their choosing.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a brief poetry workshop on the topic of Pre-Texas, wherein we reflect on the possibility of a poem that takes as its setting any period before the Texas Revolution of 1835.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
Oct
5

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, October 5, 2025, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors. This event will include both contributor readings and a generative workshop on a future TPA assignment related to daughters.

For this October reading of 2025, contributors will be asked to read two poems published by Texas Poetry Assignment, one poem by themselves and one on the topic of daughters by another poet of their choosing.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a generative workshop on the latest assignment.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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

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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
Jun
29

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, June 29, 2025, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors. This event will include both contributor readings and a generative workshop on the most recent assignment: #87 TEXAS TRAVELERS.

For this June reading of 2025, contributors will be asked to read two poems published by Texas Poetry Assignment, one poem by themselves and one on the topic of traveling by another poet of their choosing.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a generative workshop on the latest assignment.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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

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TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop
May
25

TPA Contributor Reading/Workshop

Join us on Sunday, May 25, 2025, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

This event will include both contributor readings and a generative workshop on the most recent assignment: #86 TEXAS OIL.

For this May reading of 2025, contributors will be asked to read two poems published by Texas Poetry Assignment, one poem by themselves and one poem by another TPA contributor.

After the reading, Laurence will lead us in a generative workshop on the latest assignment.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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

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

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Poetry of Resistance and Justice
Feb
27

Poetry of Resistance and Justice

Join us on Thursday, February 27, 2025, for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

Join us on Thursday, February 27 at 7 pm Central for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors. This reading is scheduled on the evening before a planned 24-hour economic blackout by The People’s Union USA for Friday, February 28, 2025.

For this February reading of 2025, contributors will be asked to read two poems on the general topics of resistance and justice: one by the contributor published on TPA or elsewhere and one by another poet. Readers may also choose to read two poems by other poets.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Jan
19

TPA Contributor Reading

Join us on Sunday, January 19 for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

Join us on Sunday, January 19 for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this January reading of 2025, 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 on any topic related to the first month of the year, new beginnings, births, rebirths, or launching new plans for the future.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Nov
17

TPA Contributor Reading

Join us on Sunday, November 17 for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this November 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 another poet on the topics related to food, harvest, hunger, or cooking.

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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Chris Ellery: TPA Contributor Reading
Oct
20

Chris Ellery: TPA Contributor Reading

Join us for an October evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributor Chris Ellery.

For this October reading of 2024, TPA contributor Chris Ellery will share and discuss poems from his latest collection One Like Silence published by Wipf and Stock in June 2024. Several of these poems appeared previously in Texas Poetry Assignment.

A frequent TPA contributor, Chris Ellery is the author of five previous poetry collections, including The Big Mosque of Mercy, Elder Tree, and Canticles of the Body. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has received the X. J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Dora and Alexander Raynes Prize for Poetry, the Betsy Colquitt Award, and the Texas Poetry Award.

Book Description: To a fragmented and conflicted world, One Like Silence offers a vision of radical connection, solidarity, union. It opens with the image of two long-estranged lovers joined, after the death of one, by an unbreakable thread that weaves together all forms in a timeless reality. The spaciousness of this metaphor is realized in the various sections of the book as it celebrates the ecstasy of existence ("Out of the Blackness Ecstatic"), grapples with the alienation engendered by trauma and suffering ("The River of Affirmation and Joy") and by fear and hate ("Moon in a Muddy Arroyo"), asserts the underlying unity of nature ("Enchanted Rock"), explores the most intimate of relationships as the archetype and ideal of union ("The Ordeal of Marriage"), and finally follows "the path of love beyond love" to claim the oneness manifesting all the diverse expressions in form ("Harmony of Star and Ditch"). Besides proposing a theory of consciousness in sync with perennial wisdom, this collection points the way to peace, wholeness, and the healing of this noisy, broken world.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Feeding Texas.

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

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TPA Contributor Reading
Sep
22

TPA Contributor Reading

Join us on Sunday, September 22 for an evening of poetry by Texas Poetry Assignment contributors.

For this September 22nd 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 another poet on the topic of freedom or a related concept.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Jul
28

TPA Contributor Reading

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

For this July 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 another poet on the topic of summer.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Jun
30

TPA Contributor Reading

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

For this June reading of 2024, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem with “joy” in its title, includes the word “joy,” or brings the contributor joy.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
May
19

TPA Contributor Reading

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

For this May reading of 2024, contributors will be asked to read two poems, any poem of theirs published by Texas Poetry Assignment plus another poem by an American poet born before 1900.

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Apr
21

TPA Contributor Reading

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Feb
18

TPA Contributor Reading

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Jan
14

TPA Contributor Reading

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Dec
3

TPA Contributor Reading

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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TPA Contributor Reading
Oct
29

TPA Contributor Reading

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.

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TPA Contributor Reading
Sep
24

TPA Contributor Reading

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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A Reading from the Taiwan Poems
Aug
27

A Reading from the Taiwan Poems

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.

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TPA Contributor Reading
Jul
16

TPA Contributor Reading

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

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TPA Contributor Reading
Jun
4

TPA Contributor Reading

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

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Lone Star Poetry at Poetic Republic Coffee
May
27

Lone Star Poetry at Poetic Republic Coffee

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.

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TPA Contributor Reading in Honor of Carol Coffee Reposa
May
7

TPA Contributor Reading in Honor of Carol Coffee Reposa

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

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/shh-zkxu-uqt

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 302-524-7657 and enter this PIN: 581 900 472#










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Mar
26

TPA Contributor Reading

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:

Kathryn Jones

Milton Jordan

Vincent Hostak

Betsy Joseph

Jesse Doiron

Chip Dameron

Jan Seale

Elisa A. Garza

Robert Allen

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

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 636-452-0163 and enter this PIN: 814 377 137#





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Lone Star Poetry Reading
Feb
23

Lone Star Poetry Reading

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.

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TPA Contributor Reading
Jan
29

TPA Contributor Reading

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#

More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/rot-kxan-wws?pin=5285191503171





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Lone Star Poetry Book Release
Nov
27

Lone Star Poetry Book Release

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

This online event will celebrate the release of Lone Star Poetry with readings from contributors.

Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief is an anthology of selections from the first year of Texas Poetry Assignment and is published by Kallisto Gaia Press, with a portion of the proceeds dedicated to FEEDING TEXAS. More on this publication here.

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

Milton Jordan, Melanie Alberts, Janelle Curlin-Taylor, Jeffrey Taylor, Katherine Hoerth, Sandi Stromberg, Herman Sutter, Thomas Quitzau, Kathryn Jones, Antoinette Winestead, Sarah Webb, Betsy Joseph, Robin Carstensen, Alan Berecka, Vincent Hostak, Seth Wieck, Maria Maloney

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

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/tdo-dzsv-asw

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 609-483-6074 and enter this PIN: 495 000 349#


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

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