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Fourth Sunday:
A Community of Poets
Sunday, Jan. 24, 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Sunset Valley
5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, Texas

Community of Poets will feature poets from the Austin Poetry Society's 60th Anniversary issue, Reflections. Katherine Durham Oldmixon will host featured poets Deb Akers, Mary Ellen Branan, Elzy Cogswell, Ralph Hausser, Christa Pandey, Jason Carrs, Shubh Bala Schiesser and others. For more information please contact us at borderlandspoetry@sbcglobal.net.

Issue #33 Fall/Winter 2009 Reading
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 7:00 PM
BookWoman
5501 North Lamar #A-105
Austin, Texas

Edited by Judy Jensen, Borderlands' upcoming issue features poetry, reviews and a photographic series on the Great Inagua, Bahamas, by Emily Ann Griffin. Local poets whose new works are published in the fall issue include Joe Ahearn, Alice Batt, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Cindy Huyser, David Meischen, 2010 Texas Poet Laureate karla k. morton, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, Kathleen Pierce and Abe Louise Young, among others.

Highlighted in book reviews are Paul Martin’s Closing Distances reviewed by Barbara Crooker and Mario Susko’s Closing Time reviewed by Amy Schrader.

Fourth Sunday: A Community of Poets
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Sunset Valley
5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, Texas

Community of Poets will feature recent past editors of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, including: Usha Akella, Deb Akers, Robert Ayres, Alice Batt, Kurt Heinzelman, Zara Houshmand, Katherine Durham Oldmixon and D'Arcy Randall. For more information please contact us at borderlandspoetry@sbcglobal.net.

Fourth Sunday: A Community of Poets
Sunday, Sept 27, 2009, 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Sunset Valley
5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, Texas

This month's reading will feature young poets from the They Speak Youth Project, hosted Tova Charles, presented by Deb Akers.

for more information contact us at borderlandspoetry@sbcglobal.net

An Evening of Art and Poetry at RANE Gallery
Co-sponsored by Borderlands and RANE Gallery

Saturday, September 19, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
214 Ledoux Street
Taos, New Mexico 87571
575-758-0000

Join us for an ekphrasis event—a poetry reading from the spring/summer 2009 issue of Borderlands—featuring the Blanton Poetry Project and Interwoven Illuminations II.

With special appearance of Borderlands guest editor Katherine Durham Oldmixon, the event features poets Mary Cisper, Madelyn Garner, Jane Lin, Judith Rane, Michael Smith and Andrea Watson.

Literary reading and exhibit:

Saturday, July 11, 2009, 3 p.m.
Blanton Museum of Art
America/Americas Gallery
UT-Austin campus, MLK at Congress

Parking is available across the street from the museum at the Brazos Parking Garage.

Literary reading in celebration of Borderlands' summer issue inspired by the Blanton Poetry Project. Edited by Katherine Durham Oldmixon, this issue focuses on ekphrastic poetry. A special section co-curated by Kurt Heinzelman and D'Arcy Randall explores artwork from the museum's collections. This issue will be on sale at the event, courtesy of the Blanton gift shop.

Fourth Sunday: A Community of Poets
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Sunset Valley
5601 Brodie Lane, (512)-899-3370

BORDERLANDS' COMMUNITY OF POETS series will feature poets from recent issues of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, including Zara Houshmand, J. Todd Hawkins, Joanne Holladay, Frances Schenkkan, Ralph Hausser, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, and others, hosted by Deb Akers.

For more information, contact us at borderlandspoetry@sbcglobal.net.

Fourth Sunday: A Community of Poets
Sunday, February 22, 2009, 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Sunset Valley

Reading will feature young poets Charu Sharma, Nicole Updegrove, Ali Doerscher, Kathryn Sabrsula, Mat Wojik, Tegan Jacobson, Rachel Lutz, Melissa Ragsdale, Clayton Neuman, Shea Gordon and Elise Powell from the Westwood High School Creative Writing Program. Hosted by F. J. Schaack, instructor. For more information contact us at borderlandspoetry@sbcglobal.net or Barnes & Noble / Jo Virgil at crm2928@bn.com  (512-899-3370)

Celebration of Borderlands fall/winter 2007 issue

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review debuts its fall/winter 2007 issue with a literary reading Sunday, November 18, at 4 p.m. at BookWoman, 918 W. 12th Street (12th at Lamar), Austin, Texas, 512-472-2785.

Photographer Elizabeth Hoisington, whose work is featured in the new issue, will also showcase her photographs at BookWoman.

Free admission and complimentary refreshments.

Borderlands journal is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Book Release and Reading

BookWoman
12th and Lamar, Austin, Texas
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 7 p.m.

Laura Van Prooyen, former Borderlands editor, reads from her first new book of poetry, Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press).

Opening Reception/Gallery Talk

Oct. 7, 2006 at 6:30 p.m

New works by Eduardo Vera, photographer from Guadalajara Mexico, will be featured Oct. 7-27, 2006, at Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review's studio space, 1101 Music Lane, Suite 343.

Gallery talk followed by a preview of the upcoming fall/winter issue of Borderlands literary journal. Free admission; complimentary refreshments to be served.

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