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Javier Sicilia, poet

Abstract Collaboration with the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity Suggested donation $10One of Mexico’s best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son’s memory, Sicilia created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug violence — violence that has left an estimated 60,000 dead, 10,000 disappeared, and more than 160,000 Mexicans displaced...

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Contemplative service of meditation, reading, music, led by Kinley Lange; Keerthana and Kruthi Bhat performed South Indian Classical Music

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An evening of poetry reading presented in conjunction with the up-coming performance of “Lightning of Our Feet” at the University of Houston. Poets: Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Susan Howe

Abstract Fady Joudah, Poet and Rahim AlHaj, Oud Musician Presented in partnership with FotoFest and Arab American Cultural and Community Center Suggested donation $10In collaboration with FotoFest and the Arab American Cultural and Community Center, celebrated poet Fady Joudah and renowned musician Rahim AlHaj present an evening of Arab poetry and oud music. Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. Joudah's poetry has been published in a variety of publications,...

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Co-sponsoed by Archaeological Institute of America

Abstract A Time of Remembrance: Contemplating Cycles of Life & Death Presented in partnership with Houston Hospice Pay What You Can $5-20 | In-person event with bench seatingCommunity members contemplated cycles of life and death across cultures with music, poetry and personal reflections in observance of Dia de los Muertos, All Saint’s Day, and National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Attendees were invited to bring a small memento, photo, or item to place on a community altar in...

Abstract with Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leaving Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. Blues People: Negro Music in White America...

Abstract with Internationally Acclaimed Poet AdonisAdonis has been called "today's most daring and provocative Arab poet," while his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.S. Eliot's on English-language verse.Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis's poetry sings exultantly of both the sweet promise of eros and the angusih of exile. The just released English-language anthology, Adonis: Selected Poems, offers the first comprehensive survey of...

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Author John Taggart will read “The Rothko Chapel Poem” from his book Loop (1991). Â This American poet and author has written fourteen volumes of poetry, a study of the painter Edward Hopper, and a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. Winner of numerous prizes for his writing as well as NEA fellowships, Taggart’s Is Music: Selected Poems was recognized as one of the most important poetry books of 2010.

A book signing and reception for the public will follow the program.