Dallas Slams – Featured Reader

0 CommentsMonday • January 2, 2012 • by admin

Shug
When: December 4th, 2009
Where: Cafe Madrid

Poetry saved Shug from selling out and losing herself in all-white private schools and, later, in A&M University. So now she is searching to see if poetry hid her in the schools to hide her from Big Brother in order that she may come out of exile and revolutionize herself and the rest of us.

Member Salon

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Member Salon
When: December 3, 2009

Ronald Davison is a native of Dallas. A multi-­media talent whose work spans poetry, painting and music, Davison is the author of Quiet Evolution (Introspect Books). Two new CDs called Circles and Quiet Evolution II are forthcoming soon.

Frederick Turner is an internationally known poet, lecturer, and scholar, and Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. A graduate of Oxford University, his books, plays, poems, and essays are too numerous to list but can be found at frederickturnerpoet.com. He was recently interviewed on the Discovery Channel’s science documentary, “Understanding Beauty.”

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