Reading Series September 2024

7 PM CDT - Gulf Coast Reading Series event featuring Jasminne Mendez and UHCWP student readers Bo Hee Moon, Alexander Lazarus Wolff, and Miles Farrell.

Join us for the first installment of the the 2024–2025 Gulf Coast Reading Series at Lawndale Art Center!

Please join us on September 13th at 7pm (doors open at 6:30). 

Please note:
N95 and KN95 masks are strongly encouraged. Social distancing is encouraged.

Jasminne Mendez is a best-selling Dominican-American poet, translator, playwright, audio book narrator and award winning author of several books for children and adults. Including the middle grade novel in verse Aniana del Mar Jumps In (Dial) which received the 2024 Pura Belpre Honor Award. Her other books have received prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Writer’s League of Texas and the International Latino Book Awards. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a University of Houston alumni. She is the Program Director for the literary arts non-profit Tintero Projects and she lives and works in Houston, TX.

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. She has received the Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship. You can find her at boheemoon.com.

Alexander Lazarus Wolff’s writing appears online in The Best American Poetry website and Poets.org, and in the North American Review, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, he holds the Inprint MD Anderson Foundation Fellowship and is assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast. You can read more of his work at www.alexanderlazaruswolff.com.

Miles Farrell is a writer from Somerset, England. He is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor and International Fellow, has had his work adapted into contemporary dance, and has been featured in RideBMX magazine.