Mad Swirl Night
Featuring: Johnny Olson, MH Clay and Swirve
Mad Swirl –Johnny Olson is the editor-in-chief of Mad Swirl, and the host at Mad Swirl Open Mic night at Absinthe Lounge. When Johnny is not nurturing his love/lust-child, Mad Swirl or painting, he savors the time swirling around with his fellow mad ones. MH Clay is Mad Swirl’s new poetry editor and a huge advocate on all that is Mad Swirly. He’s a poet, writer, musician and general mad man. Swirve, aka Chris Curiel, Tamatha Curiel, and Gerard Bendicks, is a poetics, avant-garde person/instruments-sound-space group from Dallas.
Destiny Lane
Destiny Lane is a poet that writes from her soul. She connects words that resonate with thoughtfulness. Her work is spiced with sultry soliloquies that flow fluidly off her tongue while dripping with steaming hot passion leaving the imaginations of audiences moist and wanting more.
In Memoriam - Jack Myers
November 29, 1941 - November 23, 2009
Jack Myers taught and directed the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University. He served on the Board of Directors of the Writer’s Garret, with his wife, Thea Temple, as its Executive Director.
Jack was a past Vice-President of the 15,000-member Associated Writing Programs, taught creative writing in the low-residency Vermont College MFA Program in Writing and in 2003 was named Poet Laureate of the State of Texas.
His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, from Esquire and The Nation to POETRY and The American Poetry Review. His book of poems, As Long As You’re Happy, was a National Poetry Series selection by (Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney) for 1985. He has been granted many fellowships and awards for his work: among them, two from both the National Endowment For the Arts, and two from the Texas Institute of Letters.
A Memorial Celebration for Jack Myers will be held on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 3 PM in the Hughes-Trigg Theater. A reception (in Ballroom West Central) will follow at 4:30 PM.
Dallas Poets Community Events
- FIRST FRIDAY OPEN MIC READING - On the first Friday of each month at 7 pm at Half Price Books (NW Hwy just east of Central). FREE!
- SECOND WEDNESDAY POETRY WORKSHOP - On the second Wednesday of each month at Half Price Books (NW Hwy just east of Central). FREE!
- FOURTH WEDNESDAY POETRY WORKSHOP - On the fourth Wednesday of each month at Half Price Books (NW Hwy just east of Central). FREE!
Dallas Poetry Slam
Reading Series at Paperbacks Plus
Members Salon
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