SHERYL ST. GERMAIN

WHAT: 50 Miles, Book Launch (free event)WHEN: MARCH 3, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.WHERE: Interabang Books 5600 W. Lovers Lane #142 Dallas, TX 75209 WordSpace is pleased to partner with Interabang Books to present this book release celebration! 50 Miles, (Etruscan Press, 2020) by Sheryl St. Germain is a memoir in linked essays […]

Harry McNabb

What: Poets on X+ Feature Reading Series and Open MicWhen: Friday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.Where: Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, 409A N. Tyler St. Dallas, TX 75214Hosted 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 […]

Farid Matuk

Friday, February 28 7:00 p.m.Latino Cultural Center2600 Live Oak StreetDallas, 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 […]

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 […]

Tongo Eisen-Martin

African Diaspora – New DialoguesThursday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m.South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Dallas, TX 75210Hosted by Ernest Mcmillan WordSpace is proud to partner with the South Dallas Cultural Center to produce the 6th season of African Diaspora – New Dialogues Series. Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his […]

OddLot | ArtSpeak

Oddlot is a Dallas based band that features Chris Merlick, Dan Dobson, Chris Chapman and Jay Staton. Since 2011 they have been pursuing their own blend of eccentric music and original songs. Veterans of myriad infamous Dallas bands they have grouped together to become the “Oddlot”! Mighty Fine Arts presents this exciting opening night of […]

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

African Diaspora – New DialoguesThursday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m.South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Dallas, TX 75210 Hosted by Sanderia Faye WordSpace is proud to partner with the South Dallas Cultural Center to produce the 6th season of African Diaspora – New Dialogues Series. “My writing is wide-ranging and concerns the malleability of […]

The Work of Robert Pinsky

A Martha Heimberg Salon! RSVP for address HERE or write wordspace@wordspace.us ABOUT MARTHA:Former long-time WordSpace Board Member Martha Heimberg facilitates an evening of analytical review and comparative investigations of works by Robert Pinsky. All with her inimitable warm hospitality and refreshments provided by WordSpace. Martha Heimberg has been writing about theater, the arts and historic […]

V.P. CROWE at Poets on X +

V.P. CroweWhat: Poets on X+ Feature Reading Series and Open MicWhen: Friday, September 13, 7:00 p.m.Where: Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, 409A N. Tyler St. Dallas, TX 75214Hosted by: Opalina and Carlos Salas V. P. Crowe stumbled on the Dallas poetry scene waaay back when there wasn’t much more to it than Joe Stanco’s Poets Roundtable and […]

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas

WHAT: ROSEMARY MEZA-DES PLAS at Dee Mitchell SalonWHERE: RSVP to wordspace@wordspace.usWHEN: Thursday, August 22 7:00 – 9:00 Farmington, NM-based Latina, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is known for exploring gender, sexuality, identity, and socio-political topics in her spoken word performances.  A native Texan, she lived for many years in the Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex. She received an MFA from the […]