Come out and support youth poets!

Brazos Bookstore Event

Poetry Events at HPL

Poetry Events at HPL
Several poets are featured. Outspoken Bean of MetaFour Houston will perform too!

Meta-Four Houston's Youth Slam

Meta-Four Houston's Youth Slam Team performs Friday at Coffee Groundz, 7:30p.m.

Do not forget MetaFour's fundraiser, next week. MetaFour needs your help in sending the team to the Brave New Voices 2011 International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in San Francisco, the largest ongoing spoken word event in the world!

Location

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Get over to the Word Around Town Poetry Tour. I went last night and it was awesome! Meta-Four Houston totally rocked! Thank you Shannon Buggs and Outspoken Bean! Thanks to Lupe Mendez for the poetic shout out to educators! Check out the schedule:

7/11 Bohemeo's Art House 708 Telephone Rd.
7/12 The Artery 5401 Jackson
7/13 Taft Street Coffee 2115 Taft
7/14 Notsuoh's 314 Main
7/15 Khon's 2808 Milam
7/16 M.E.C.A. 1900 Kane
7/17 Aerosol Warfare 2110 Jefferson

Other poets: Teresa Juarez, Jasmine Mendez, Jessie Noel, and more...

Poetry Collections by Alice Walker

Once (1968)
Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)

This Week's Favorite Poets

Julius took a poll of library patrons. Our favorite poets are:

Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Se7en
Tupac
John Milton
Katie King
James Baldwin
Susan Jeffers
'lil Wayne
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Donna Garrett
Edgar Allen Poe
Daniel Garcia
Walt Whitman