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Harry McNabb

What: Poets on X+ Feature Reading Series and Open Mic
When:
 Friday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, 409A N. Tyler St. Dallas, TX 75214
Hosted by: Opalina and Carlos Salas

Harry McNabb is a writer of short fiction. He has just published his first collection of funny and emotionally intimate yarns in a book titled Vacuum Stories.

Wine available, BYOB

WordSpace is proud to sponsor the Poets on X + Feature Reading Series and Open Mic every second Friday of the month!


Farid Matuk

Friday, February 28 7:00 p.m.
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak Street
Dallas, TX 75204

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse. The recipient of grants and residencies from The Headlands Center for the Arts and The Lannan Foundation, Matuk teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and in 2020 will serve as the Holloway Visiting Professor in Poetry & Poetics at UC Berkeley. His collaboration with Colombian visual artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is forthcoming from Singing Saw Press. 


Guillermo Gomez Pena


Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak Street Dallas, TX 75204

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He was born in Mexico City, and moved to the U.S. in 1978, earning a BA and MA at California Institute of the Arts. He has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. Gómez-Peña’s eight books include essays, experimental poetry and chronicles in both English, Spanish, and Spanglish; his books include The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century (2001) and Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol (2001). He is a founding member of the art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. Gómez-Peña received many honors, including a US Artists fellow award (2012) and a MacArthur fellowship (1991), the first Chicano artist to receive the award. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.

WordSpace is honored to partner with the Latino Cultural Center


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