Past Due: Poems on Injustice & Ways to Pay Attention, Reading with Tammy Gomez & Milo Starr Johnson

Name: Past Due: Poems on Injustice & Ways to Pay Attention, Reading with Tammy Gomez & Milo Starr Johnson
Start: 2026-03-20T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751

Schedule

Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751 | Austin, TX

Please join us in welcoming Milo and Tammy-- and come prepared to share something during the Open Mic segment after their reading!
Milo Starr Johnson is a writer and multidisciplinary artist: a poet, singer- songwriter, playwright, performer, producer, and publisher. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies, including Maintenant 19: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art. Miss Experience White is her first book. As writer, performer, and co-producer of the podcast version of Miss Experience White, she won a 2022 Signal Gold Award for Fiction in a Limited Series and a 2022 Silver w3 Award for Cause Awareness in a Miniseries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Milo is a 65 year-old seeker by nature and lifelong student, specializing in creating provocative and personal work advocating for change with love and mischief.
Tammy Melody Gomez is an activist, performance artist, and writer whose literary work—essays, poetry, microfiction—has been published in collections including Bikequity: Money, Class, and Bicycling (Microcosm Publishing, 2017), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press, 2016), and Women in Nature (Louise Grace Publishing, 2014). She is profiled in Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press, 2003). She was a 2015–2018 Black Earth Institute Fellow and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Tammy has collaborated with hundreds of artists/writers in projects ranging from community media (Austin’s KO.OP Radio) to poetry projects (DRESS CODES, Blast Your Own Breath) to theatre-making (“She: Bike/Spoke/Love” and “Saliendo Abierta”). She has participated with Writers Resist, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, and curated poetry readings for the Texas Book Festival. And recently, Tammy served as guest editor for the “Rewilding” issue of About Place Journal.