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BARNES & NOBLE HOLIDAY BOOK DRIVE
Give the gift of reading to children in need by donating books through locally designated nonprofit organizations. Recipients throughout the country include schools, libraries, literacy organizations, family social service agencies, and homeless centers. This year, the Barnes & Noble Arboretum location is collecting books for Women’s Storybook Project.
Barnes & Noble, various locations.
(Miscellaneous)
HARRY RANSOM CENTER: FROM OUT THAT SHADOW
The HRC has teamed up with the University of Virginia to present this Edgar Allan Poe show – an expansive and remarkable collection of manuscripts, letters, first editions, illustrations, and other storied ephemera concerning one of the country's most famous writers. Through Jan. 3.
Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944.
(Readings, Signings, and Performances)
JESSE KATZ
takes us to The Opposite Field where he became the baseball commissioner of the La Loma Park, Calif., Little League and found himself and the American pastime in need of serious recontextualizing.
7pm.
BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.
(Readings, Signings, and Performances)
LEE MONTGOMERY
The author of The Things Between Us: A Memoir and Searching for Emily: Illustrated is also executive editor at Tin House magazine and editorial director of Tin House Books. Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30pm. Katherine Anne Porter House, 508 W. Center St., Kyle.
(Readings, Signings, and Performances)
MORE POETRY!
or how Stephanie says
it is neither beyond
nor close nor has
it any weight
to hold to
the fire
a draft
will
do
&
the pole
the horses
the skins & bones
a film of grasses bending
as if the horizon were a water
where the ghosts drained themselves
of wanting to believe in flesh
& how Margaret taught
piano in the servant's
quarters laughing
as he played his
version of Satie
the long spaces
carried slowly
into his nest
of softer
days
how running
his hair like tufts
of ill cut straw
there
was only
a joy in
gazing
back
as she
stood on
that far wall. Namaste. Vaya con dios.
(Miscellaneous)
PLAYWRITING CLASSES
with award-winning playwright Rosalyn Rosen, artistic director of Remembrance Through the Performing Arts. Classes meet once a week for three hours. Minimum eight-week commitment. Call for location.
329-9118 x1.
$35 per class.
remperarts@aol.com
(Seminars and Workshops)
POEM OF THE ISSUE
death’s picture
a man named jones, 68,
cigarette dangling
from his frozen portrait mouth
reminds me that
we do live forever
unless our choices depend
on that urgent need to gratify
as, of course,
is only human nature
ergo, and so forth
but urgently, I ask:
where is the death in you?
– Kristi Sprinkle
(Poem of the Issue)
THE LIGHTNING FIELD: MAPPING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
This fine exhibit displays drafts of work by Cormac McCarthy, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Sam Shepard, Jovita Gonzalez, Rick Riordan, the King of the Hill writers, Texas Monthly journalists, and many others, illustrating a variety of authors' compositional dilemmas and how they found the lightning. Through Feb 1. Wittliff Collection, Alkek Library, TSU-San Marcos.
(Readings, Signings, and Performances)
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