The State of Naomi Shihab Nye

The well-traveled poet talks about loving Texas and being this year’s recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writer Award

"...Three former Texas state poets laureate – Jenny Browne, Carrie Fountain, and ire’ne lara silva – are joined by..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival Unveils Full Author Lineup for 2024

Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell headline

"...Carrie Fountain, Texas, Being: A State of Poems..."

Sept. 19, 2024 Books Post by Amaya Austin

Event Celebrates New Austin Poet Laureate Program

KB Brookins and Amanda Johnston on what it means to be a poetry city

"...award-winning multihyphenate art-ivist Ebony Stewart, 2019 Texas Poet Laureate Carrie Fountain, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Roger Reeves, and..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by Cy White

The Texas Book Festival Unveils Its List of Participating Authors

In-person and virtual panels and discussions abound

"...Hafsah Faizal Saraciea J. Fennell Wes Ferguson Ted Flato Carrie Fountain Glenn Frankel Mary Gaitskill Gabriela Garcia Cassy Joy..."

Sept. 22, 2021 Arts Post by Adrienne Hunter

Carrie Fountain's Third Collection of Poetry Illuminates the Day-to-Day

The Austin author lives The Life

"...back at one of the pieces that make up Carrie Fountain's third collection of poetry, the whole process starts..."

May 7, 2021 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Arts Events

"...Paul Sanchez and Liz Cass voicing the lyrics of Carrie Fountain, and the Rude Mechs' Shawn Sides directing the..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn’t Trying to Trick You

The 2019 Texas Poet Laureate talks shop as she receives two Texas honors

"...hope I make a lot of people feel stupid,'" Carrie Fountain says from across a blond wood table. "Everyone's..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Texas Institute of Letters Honors Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires

Longtime writer and critic one of 17 inducted in TIL

"...17 writers – including writer/director Wes Anderson, Austin poet Carrie Fountain, and songwriter/children’s book author Tish Hinojosa – inducted..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair 2018

Humanities Texas has the one-stop shop for all the lit lovers on your gift list with 26 authors on hand to sign your purchases

"...Elizabeth Crook! On, Bill Wittliff! On, Mimi Swartz! On, Carrie Fountain! On, Don Graham! On, Michael Barnes! On, ......"

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng

This debut novel about a future in which people can live forever is a bittersweet yet life-affirming story of eternity versus death

"...read from Suicide Club and be interviewed by author Carrie Fountain (I'm Not Missing) on Fri., Oct. 13, 7pm,..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...memoir Dear America; Notes of an Undocumented Citizen). Ben Fountain, familiar to many as a novelist from the National..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2017

Bold takes on history and art that moved around the city spoke to a growing, changing Austin this year

"...with Mexico City's Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (and poet Carrie Fountain, singers Paul Sanchez and Liz Cass, and a..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Arty Things To Do In Austin This Weekend

Arty, yeah. You know: Creativity actually happening in our city.

"...with readings by that nonpareil mistress of modern verse, Carrie Fountain...."

June 16, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

James Magnuson Leaves the Michener Center

James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers

"...brilliance of teachers such as poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Carrie Fountain, and Dean Young; playwrights Sherry Kramer, Paula Vogel,..."

May 26, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival 2017

This year's model of the annual hybrid arts showcase features revolutionaries, robots, and dam dancing, oh my!

"...Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol and additional lyrics by poet Carrie Fountain to explore the biography and mythos of the..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

Cost-of-living increases are making local artists do more with less

"...Hierophant), with Liz Cass, mezzo-soprano; Carla McElhaney, piano; and Carrie Fountain, poet, performing music from Carmen and Cabaret, Dvorak's..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

CodeNEXT Prepares to Rewrite Austin

Sound Check, a week of city development code-related events, kicks off Nov. 16

"...a shelter from sun and rain, a working water fountain and a light. Go back to metal bus schedule..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Katie Matlack

Art or Parenting?

Four professional artists discuss how having kids has affected their careers and ways of working

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Texas Teen Book Festival: The 2015 Lineup

Sesame Street and Star Wars collide in the 2015 TTBF

"...themselves as well as read: a poetry workshop with Carrie Fountain (Instant Winner) (2:30pm) and a fiction workshop with..."

Aug. 17, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Renewed Faith

On coming back to an appreciation of poetry's remarkable resonance and relevance

"...family business does Michael Corleone in Godfather III), and Carrie Fountain came over to me, pressed a book into..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Instant Winner

by Carrie Fountain

"...Instant Winnerby Carrie Fountain Penguin Press, 96pp., $20 (paper)..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fall in re: Verse

Raking up some of the season's poetry collections

"...Sept. 30. That's the same day that local poet Carrie Fountain releases Instant Winner, the follow-up to her award-winning..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...Cotter (The Parallel Apartments), Dean Young (Fall Higher), and Carrie Fountain (Instant Winner) … to name a few...."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Summer Fun: The Classic Beach Read

Recommendations for the ideal read when you're camped out in the sand

"...some alarmingly good sexy bits in it. – Carrie Fountain, author of Burn Lake..."

May 16, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On Writers and Con Men

James Magnuson's roman à clef about a creative writing program in Texas is in many ways a loving tribute to James Michener

"...Meyer and Kevin Powers, playwright Kirk Lynn, and poet Carrie Fountain...."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

An Evening of Poetry

Bullock welcomes poet laureate

"...of Letters' Sarah Cortez, Michener Center for Writers fellow Carrie Fountain, and 2012's Texas Poet Laureate, Jan Epton Seale...."

April 25, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Kirk Lynn

For he's a jolly good fellow

"...physically with you. Then I started texting and calling Carrie [Fountain, Lynn's wife]. It was October maybe. A long..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

Kirk Lynn earns a $50K fellowship from United States Artists

"...physically with you. Then I started texting and calling Carrie [Fountain, Lynn's wife]. It was October maybe. A long..."

Dec. 5, 2011 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Illuminating Austin Authors

Dagoberto Gilb, Gregory Curtis among Illumine honorees

"...Emerging Author Honoree: Carrie Fountain (poet, Burn Lake)
Presented by: James Magnuson 
..."

Nov. 9, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Teleportal Reading: Chocolate Shearwater Fountain

Performances with so many tastes that taste great together!

"...Rainbow jibe seem tame or lame by comparison.. There's Carrie Fountain, gonna be reading from her nationally acclaimed Burn..."

Jan. 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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