Poetics of Liberation: Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl Showcase
About this Event
This event is in collaboration with Texas Book Festival and part of their annual Lit Crawl.
Poetics of Liberation is an intersectional feminist reading and community gathering celebrating radical writers whose work inspires social transformation. Hosted at Sip Haus, we are thrilled to feature Jenny Browne, Cloud Delfina Cardona, Emmy Pérez, Ray Foster, Zell Miller III, Bo Hee Moon, and Kayti Lahsaiezadeh!
Hosted by Host Publications editors Annar Veröld-Miranda & Claire Bowman!
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✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature.
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Bo Hee Moon is a South Korean adoptee. Born in South Korea, she was adopted at three-months-old. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry, swamp pink, The Margins, and others. Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, published by Tinderbox Editions, is her debut collection of poems. She previously published under a different name. Her second collection of poems, Birthstones in the Province of Mercy, won the 2024-2025 Jake Adam York Prize. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Houston and has received the Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship.
Jenny Browne is a poet and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, forthcoming from BOA Editions in Sept 2026. Her poems and essays have appeared widely, most recently in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Poetry Ireland, and Poetry Magazine. She has received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and two Fulbright Fellowships to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University-Belfast, where she is Honorary Professor of Arts, English and Languages. She served concurrent terms as the 2016-2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate, and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate. In 2023, she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Kayti Lahsaiezadeh has eyes and a face. Born and raised in southern California, she is currently a third year poetry candidate at the New Writers Project. Her work has appeared in Post Road, Pea River Journal, Kweli, The Blueshift Journal, FreezeRay Poetry, and elsewhere.
Ray Foster is a poet with roots in upstate New York and Vermont, currently studying in UT Austin's New Writers Project.
Emmy Pérez’s latest book Paper america: New and Selected Poems (2026) is part of TCU Press’s Texas Poet Laureate Series. She is also the author of Boxes with Zero Tolerance, With the River on Our Face, and Solstice. Her work also appears in anthologies such as Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Poetry Goes to the Movies, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage, and Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and co-founder of Poets Against Walls collective, she is a past recipient of fellowships from United States Artists, the Academy of American Poets (Poets Laureate Fellowship), the National Endowment for the Arts, and CantoMundo. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Originally from Santa Ana, CA, she has lived in the Texas borderlands for over 25 years and served as Texas Poet Laureate 2020.
Cloud Delfina Cardona is a poet and book cover designer from San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of What Remains, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and the past is a jean jacket, winner of the Naomi Shihab Nye First Book of Poetry Award. She has received support from Letras Latinas, the Academy of American Poets, Latinx in Publishing, and the Macondo Writers Workshop. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review, a literary nonprofit that publishes Texan voices. Cardona moonlights as DJ Mexistentialism.
Zell Miller III is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Austin, Texas, an award-winning interdisciplinary theater artist, playwright, Producing Artistic Director of Black Rose Theater ATX, and performer whose work explores identity, culture, and the human experience. Named Best Poet/Writer by the Austin Chronicle (2004) and inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame (2017), he is a leading voice in contemporary American arts. A nationally and internationally touring artist, he has opened for Nikki Giovanni and The Last Poets and appeared on PBS and KVUE News. Award winning instructor, and has worked with youth for over 26 years. As a playwright and director, he has created 13 full-length award winning productions, including Chronicles of an Indigenous offspring, My Child, My Child, My Alien Child and Up Hoodies Down, and is a recipient of the David Mark Cohen Playwright Award. Rooted in a jazz aesthetic, his work blends poetry, theater, and movement to spark dialogue, connection, and social change.
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