Luckily, The Easy Writer Poetry Motto TourTour is stopping here on May 11th at 7:30 PM at AvantGarden Houston, Texas. This stop in Texas is headlined by poetry power house, Derrick Brown, and will also feature the brilliant works of Ebony Stewart and Karyna McGlynn!
DERRICK c. BROWN is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former Paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent poetry presses in the country”, Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author of five books of poetry and three children’s books. The New York Times calls his work, “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.” He is from Austin TX.
Ebony Stewart is the only three-time Slam Champion in Austin Texas. Shared stages with Buddy Wakefield and the late Amri Baraka. Published “The Queen’s Glory & The Pussy’s Box” and “Love Letters To Balled Fists”. Former Sexual Health Educator. Aspiring comedian. Cupcake lover. Texas raised, “the South in her.”
Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, as well as the chapbooks Scorpionica and Alabama Steve. Her poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Seattle Review, West Branch, Subtropics, Drunken Boat, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day.
Don't miss this show. Tickets as available.
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