Poets who have actively participated in Public Poetry readings include a former Poet Laureate of the United States, three Texas State Poets Laureate, two Pulitzer Prize nominees, as well as academic faculty, published poets and award-winning performance poets. Among the following are local and visiting poets, as well as regional, national, and international poets who have read starting in April 2011 to present over 375 poets (as of 8/2021.)

KEY:  Monthly Library Reading Series,  PM Show,  Museum Readings & other special events, 

Carolyn Adams, James Adams, Alan Ainsworth, Usha Akella, Thay Alafitta, Mike Alexander, Sam Amadon, C. Prudence Arcaneaux,  Miah Arnold, Cedric ‘Brother Said’ Ary, Amanda Auchter, Emily Bludworth de Barios, Outspoken Bean, Brian Beard, Onnyx Bei, Erin Belieu, Stephanie Bension, Lauren Berry, Michael Berryhill, Jesse Bertron, Shella Black, Xach Blunt, Eleanor Boudreau, Connor Bracken, Jack Brannon, David Brinks, D.F. Brown, Erik Brown, Erika Jo Brown, Marie Brown, Konnor Broussard, Chris Brunt, Michelle Dominique Burk, Savanah Burns, Craig Butterworth, Joseph Campana, Christina Cantu, Tina Cane, Christopher Carmona, Daniel Carrington, Cyrus Cassells, Rosemary Catacalos, Gerald Cedillo, Scott Chalupa, Hayan Charara,  Ching-In Chen, Bao-Long Chu, Kay  Charlie Clark, Eddie Connor  Sara Cooper, Karla Cordero, Sarah Cortez, Elizabeth Cosgrove, Arielle Cottinger, Raie Crawford, Jane Creighton, Barbara Crooker, Carolyn Dahl, Chris Diaz,  J, David, Robin Davidson, Corinna Delgado, Winston Derden, Chelsea DesAutels, Chris Diaz, Billie Duncan, Ryler Dustin, Eric Ekstrand, Kelly Ann Ellis, Sophia Emile, Jeremy Eugene, Ayokunle Falomo, David A. Feil, Chris Flakus, Carolyn Florek, Matthew Flores, Christa Forster, Dede Fox, Priscilla Frake, Adamarie Fuller,  Jeannie Gambill, Benjamin Garcia, Van G. Garrett, Elisa A. Garza, Matty Lane Glasgow, Haven Gomez, Rodney Gomez, John Gorman, Stephen Gros, Alexis Mercedes Gutierrez, Sam Gwynn, Autumn Hayes, Kurt Heinzelman, Carolyn Hembree, Niki Herd, Billie Hill, Lily Hoang, Vinh Hoang, Katherine Hoerth, Bradley Earle Hoge, Chris Holmes, Adam Holt, James Houlihan, Saba Husain, Cindy Huyser, Peter Hyland, Kenan Ince, Glynn Irby, Katharine Jager, Justin Jannise, Chenelle John, Jeremy Johnson, Vincent ‘BlackBluez’ Johnson, Sean Johnson, Ken Jones, Fady Joudah, Teresa Juarez, Aris Kian, Amy King,  Sharon Klander, Paul Klinger, Carrie Kornacki, Andre de Korvin, Drew Krewer, Mong Lan, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Brandon Lampson, Gabrielle Langley, Nick Lantz, Katherine Larson, Ji Yoon Lee, David Leftwich, Erica Lehrer, Aerika Lewis, Rich Levy, Thad Logan, Deniz ‘deecolonize’ Lopez, Janet Lowery, Robert Lunday, Joe Machado, M. Miranda Maloney,  William Marabella, Maya Marshall, Cristina Martinez, David Tomas Martinez, Rooster Martinez, Lorena Parker-Matejowski, Darla McBryde, Anne McCrady, Karyna McGlynn, Elena Gonzales Melinger, Jasminne Mendez, Lupe Mendez, Celeste Guzman Mendoza, Alexis Mercedes, Christopher Michael, John Milkereit, Bryce Milligan, Ange Mlinko, Jonathan Moody, Choonwha Moon, Lisa Moore,  Anna Marie Morris, Deborah DEEP Mouton, Carol Munn, Marcell Murphy, Josh Nguyen Stacy R. Nigliazzo, Zarlasht Niaz, Katherine Noble, Michelle Oaks, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, Sharon Olson, January Gill O’Neil, Chibbi Orduna, Monica Amanda Ortiz, Teresa Ortiz, Radames Ortiz, Paul Otremba, Khaya ‘Khalypso’ Osborne, Rebecca Oxley, Joesph ‘JoeP’ Palmore, David M Parsons, Annise Parker, Maria Palacios, Norma Paskusz,  Jeremyah ‘The Fluent One’ Payne, Georgia Pearle, Nancy K. Pearson, Daniel Peña, Laura Peña, Oscar C. Peña, Dawn Pendergast, Emmy Perez, Elina Petrova, Evangelina Vigil-Pinon, Robert Pinsky, John Pluecker, Frances Justine Post, Vanessa Zimmer-Powell, Kevin Prufer, Vo Duc Quang, Page Quiñones, Octavio Quintinilla, Bishop Ragtyme, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Miranda Ramirez, Rayes Ramirez, Nick Rattner, Bucky Rea, Khalisa Rae, Robin Reagler, Pattiann Rogers, Bruno Rios, Audrey Schwartz Rivers, Paul Ruffin, José Ramón Ruisánchez, Amir Safi, Jason Schneiderman, Charlie Scott, Jan Seale, Martha Serpas, Varsha Sariaya Shah, Anis Shivani, Jordan Simpson, giovanni singleton, Eva Skrande, David Glen-Smith, Loueva Smith, Niko Smith, Tamara Nicholl-Smith, Michael D. Snediker, Analecia Sotolo, Aleenah Antonette Spencer, Tim Staley, Ebony Stewart, Sandi Stromberg, Melissa Studdard, Anthony Sutton, Yerra Sugarman, Chuck Taylor, Carmen Tafolla, Juliane Tran, Roberto Tejada, Nancy Thorliefson, James Trotter, Dulcie “Digh” Veluthukaran, Regina Virgil, Stalina Villarreal, Rebecca Wadlinger, Grace Wagner, Imani Wallace, Ashley Warner, Randall Watson, Cait Weiss, Chris Wise, Chuck Wemple, Mary Wemple, Sasha West, Keagan Wheat, Allyson Whipple, Adele Elise Williams, Scott Wiggerman, Chris Wise,  R.J. Wright, Susan Wood, Tria Wood, Abe Louise Young, Ronnie Yates,  Gwendolyn Zepeda, D.E. Zuccone 

Contest winners* & Anthology Poets

PANDEMIC POEMS (2020)
Diana Donovan*, John Sibley Williams (2*) Mayowa Oyewale, (3*) Megan Aldridge, Andrew Analore, K.P. Anderson, Brianna Arnold, Elliot Chapman, Deborah DeNicola, , Gail Ford, RobertRené Galván, Emily Hosler, Sean Huh, Karen Kovacik, Gabrielle Langley, Zev Levinson, Naomi Lowinsky, Darren Lyons, Katharyn Machan, MariCarmen Marin, Megan Merchant,  James Penha, Neethu Prasanna, Yiskah Rosenfeld, Joel Savishinsky, Sharon Scholl, Kristina Stapleton, Holly Venus, A. Garnett Weiss,

ENOUGH (2019)
Julia Levine*,  Kat Mandeville (2*),  Aline Stefanescu (3*) Tricia Bauer, F.J. Bergmann, Laniesha Brown, Franny Frenc, Kim Garcia, Collette Gill, Susan Gundlach, Sherry Hanson, Joanne McNeil Hayes, Jennifer Hollis, Zoe Johnson, Claire Kelley, Karen Lynch, Kristina McDonald, Katerine Menjivar, Marianne Mersereau, Kathleen O’Toolle, Quentin Rynbrandt, Pil Sarp, Joyce Schmidt, Debora Schupack, Sandi Stromberg, Cheryl Suma, Pamela Sumners, Stephen Toskar, Leticia Urieta

POWER (2018)
Usha Akella, Bruce Bond, Jerry Bradley, Joshua Burton, Alexandria Delacourt, Mean DeMatteo, Tyler Dunston, Katherine Fisburn, Kim Garcia, Aidah Gil, Stephen Harvey, Stephen Haden, Kristen Hogatt-Abader, Bernard Horn, Cindy Huyser, Rosa Lane, Anna Leahy, Mary Makofsky, Lisa Moore, Candice Reffe, Stanford Searle, Madison Semijian, Dulcie Velutukarian

WORK (2017)
Barbara Dahlberg,* Sean Webb (2*), Christ Boldt (3*),  Carolyn Dahl, CB Follett, Lucy Griffith, Grey Held,  Justin Jannise, Carolann Caviglia Madden, Fran Markover, Susie Paul, Laura Ross, John Simonds, Chris Song

ARTlines: ART BECOMES POETRY (2015)
Carolyn Dahl*, Tricia Askar, Deborah Bennett, Ivan Brave, Marie Chambers, Diana Conces, Krista Forster, Chapman Frazier, Cindy Williams Gutierrez, Charles Hood, Noreen Hyde, Justin Jannise, Lynne Knight, Claire McQuerry, Donna Nelesen, Brian Orth, Daryl Scroggins, Beth Sherman, Nancy Torliefson, Arne Weinart, Lauren Winchester,

LIVE WEBCASTS: 2014, 2015:

Mary Biddinger  (Ohio) on Margaret Atwood; Jenny Browne (Texas) on Richard Hugo; Cyrus Cassells (Texas)on Ellen Hinsey;  Jan Freeman (Massachusetts) on Muriel Rukeyser; Rika Lesser (New York)on Richard Howard; David Thomas Martinez (Houston,) on T.S. Elliot; Jonathan Moody (Houston,) on Larry Levis; Naomi Shihab Nye ( Texas) on Jack Myers;  Katherine Durham Oldmixon  (Texas) on Jorie Graham; Kevin Prufer (Houston,) on Stevie Smith; Pattiann Rogers (Colorado)on Theodore Rothke; Martha Serpas (Houston) on Anne Sexton; Anis Shivani (Houston,) on Dave Brinks; James Tolan (New York) on Robert Duncan;  Leslie Ullman (Texas)) on Denise Levertov; Scott Wiggerman (New Mexico) on Thomas James; Dom Zuccone (Houston) creator & host.

POETRY OUT LOUD: 2015-16

Prudence Arceneaux, Shiela Black, Erika Jo Brown, Kelly Ellis, Rodney Gomez, Lily Hoang, Stacey R. Niglizzo, Brother Said, Roberto Tejada, Randall Watson

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How Poets are Selected