Depot Poetry Reading: The Power of Place

Name: Depot Poetry Reading: The Power of Place
Start: 2026-05-29T21:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-29T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 200 S Jones Ave, Norman, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73069

Schedule

Fri May 29 2026 at 09:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

200 S Jones Ave, Norman, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73069 | Norman, OK

The reading will take place on Friday, May 29 at 7PM at the Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave. in Norman. Admission is free. Refreshments will be provided.
Three celebrated poets will each read poems that explore their own unique way of seeing the power of place.
Phillip Carroll Morgan has authored or co-authored eleven books in several different genres since 2006, when his award-winning first volume of poetry, The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, was published by Salt Publishing in Cambridge, UK, as part of their Indigenous American Poets series. He has also authored or co-authored books of biography, history, literary criticism, and most recently, fiction. He contributed an essay to Famine Pots: The Choctaw–Irish Gift Exchange, 1847–Present (Michigan State U Press, 2020), and his second novel, The Lost River, Wordmaster II, was released in 2022 by White Dog Press. The readings for this event are part of his second comprehensive collection of poetry.
Cullen Whisenhunt is a graduate of Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program whose poetry has been featured in Oklahoma Today, Red River Review, and Ninth Letter, among other publications. He is the author of two chapbooks, Among the Trees and Childish Things, and one full-length collection of poetry, Until Air Itself Is Tinted, which was the recipient of the 2025 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry. He also researches early Oklahoma poets for the blog Archive Serendipities. He is a lifelong resident of southeastern Oklahoma and currently lives in McAlester, where he teaches for Eastern Oklahoma State College and works with local libraries and community arts groups to organize poetry events.
Jessica Willingham has been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology 2023 and 2024, appeared on the longlist for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024, and received a nomination for Best Microfiction Anthology 2025. Her debut poetry collection was named a semi-finalist for the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award and is forthcoming from Belle Point Press in 2026. She is an Oklahoma State University alumna and a graduate of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project in Denver, Colorado. Her work appears in The Citron Review, Hell is Real: A Midwest Gothic Anthology, Identity Theory, Roi Faineant Press, Still: The Journal, Mississippi Review, and Variant Literature, among others.