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The Texas Observer Does Poetry

Date: 2013-08-29, Time: 7PM

Where: Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet St., Houston, Texas, 77005

Join The Texas Observer’s managing editor, Brad Tyer, as he moderates a conversation with Houston’s poet laureate, Gwendolyn Zepeda.

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