february, 2026
08febsunFeaturedOak Cliff Chess Club6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Type :Chess ClubSTORIES
Welcome to the Oak Cliff Chess Club, a monthly gather for chess lovers of all levels to play, have fun and meet chess players in the neighborhood. Enjoy a great
Welcome to the Oak Cliff Chess Club, a monthly gather for chess lovers of all levels to play, have fun and meet chess players in the neighborhood. Enjoy a great chess evening along with fine tunes provides by “The Weirdest Thing” with DJ Berto.
Everyone is welcomed, it’s free and it’s a BYOB (bring your own board).
Hope to see you there!
(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
ALSO
october
Seguimos nuestro ciclo de lecturas latinoamericanas con Ceniza en la boca, de Brenda Navarro. Una joven reconstruye la historia de su hermano y la suya propia entre México y España. La
Seguimos nuestro ciclo de lecturas latinoamericanas con Ceniza en la boca, de Brenda Navarro.
Una joven reconstruye la historia de su hermano y la suya propia entre México y España. La novela abre una conversación sobre el duelo, los cuidados, la desigualdad y el desarraigo, y sobre lo que significa buscar un lugar al que pertenecer.
Coordinado por Gabriel Calbosa, El Book Club es un espacio para leer y conversar en español. Los libros están disponibles en la librería.
¡Ven a compartir tu lectura!
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at the Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the show is the second Wednesday of every month. Meet us in the backyard
Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at the Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the show is the second Wednesday of every month. Meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday October 14th for a live reading with a brief open mic to follow. This month, we are proud to present poet Radu Vancu and translator Sean Cotter!
Radu Vancu is a poet, scholar, professor, and translator who has written nine volumes of poetry, a novel, two children’s novellas, a collection of essays, and scholarly publications. He has received numerous awards for his literary works, and also edits Transilvania magazine and Poesis Internațional. He has translated works by Walt Whitman, John Berryman, and Ezra Pound into Romanian, and is the president of Sibiu’s international poetry festival. He also served as the president of PEN Romania.
Sean Cotter is the translator of many works of Romanian literature, and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His translation of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid (Deep Vellum, 2022) was awarded the Dublin Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Romanian Cultural Institute prize for best translation of the year.
This event is sponsored in part by the UT-Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
15octthuFeaturedD-CLAIM: Tawanda Mulalu7:00 pm Event Type :Poetry & MusicSTORIES
D-CLAIM is a Dallas-based jazz & literature collective founded by poet/bassist J.D. Debris, backing contemporary poets with hypnotic live-band grooves. Sponsored by Project Poetica at SMU English, D-CLAIM brings together
D-CLAIM is a Dallas-based jazz & literature collective founded by poet/bassist J.D. Debris, backing contemporary poets with hypnotic live-band grooves. Sponsored by Project Poetica at SMU English, D-CLAIM brings together hip-hop tinged jazz with a poetry reading on the third Thursday of every month, highlighting an improvisational confluence of words and music.
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. His first book, Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die (Princeton University Press, 2022), received the 2023 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and was listed as a best poetry collection of 2022 by The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post. His poems have appeared in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. He currently lives in Plano, TX.
D-CLAIM has been praised by the Dallas Observer for possessing a “spark that allows the poetic medium to evolve while also giving jazz new material.” Their sound, featuring the original compositions of bandleader J.D. Debris, combines the lyricism of Gil Scott-Heron, the low-end explorations of Esperanza Spalding, and hypnotic grooves informed by East Coast boom-bap and Brazilian soul.
Musicians
Ste’fon Landers, saxophone
Manny Galindo, piano
Nicholas Rothouse, percussion
Ian Yoo, drums
J.D. Debris, bass
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
november
Join John Bradley and The Wild Detectives Book Club for our 110th selection: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews. Across seven stories, Colanzi
Join John Bradley and The Wild Detectives Book Club for our 110th selection: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Across seven stories, Colanzi brings together science fiction, horror, and the landscapes of Latin America. Environmental destruction, human ambition, and unsettling visions of the future blur the boundary between the familiar and the strange.
Come ready to share what stayed with you, what surprised you, and where these stories took you. Copies are available in the bookstore and through our online store.
You can also join our Goodreads group to follow the club’s reading selections.
Author photo: Isabel Wagemann.
(Monday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Join us for a conversation with Karen Olsson about her new novel, Dear Thorns, with Dallas writer Sonia Smith. About the book In the South Texas ranchlands, wildlife researcher Lora spends her
Join us for a conversation with Karen Olsson about her new novel, Dear Thorns, with Dallas writer Sonia Smith.
In the South Texas ranchlands, wildlife researcher Lora spends her days tracking the elusive ocelot. An affair with a younger intern disrupts her carefully ordered life, while competing ambitions at the refuge test her dedication to conservation.
With humor and a keen eye for the landscape, Dear Thorns explores midlife desire, the distance between ideals and institutions, and the ways people and animals struggle to find room in a changing world.
Karen Olsson is the author of Dear Thorns, Waterloo, All the Houses, and The Weil Conjectures. Her debut novel, Waterloo, was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A former editor of The Texas Observer, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Bookforum, and Texas Monthly. She studied mathematics at Harvard and lives in Austin with her family.
Sonia Smith is a Dallas-based writer and two-time Livingston Award finalist whose reporting has appeared in Texas Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and the Kyiv Post. Her profile of climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Put down your phone, pick up a book, and join us for an evening of conversation and quiet reading with 101Media and Methodist Dallas Medical Center. In Doctor vs TikTok, Juan
Put down your phone, pick up a book, and join us for an evening of conversation and quiet reading with 101Media and Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
In Doctor vs TikTok, Juan (John) Avila II, MD, an internal medicine physician on the medical staff at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, will discuss the health trends filling our feeds—from fibermaxxing and weight-lifting to the best time for a “hot girl walk.” Bring your questions for a live Q&A.
After the conversation, settle in with your own book for silent reading, then stay to meet fellow readers. There is no assigned title: bring whatever you are enjoying, in any genre. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Admission is free with RSVP. Reserve your spot through Eventbrite.
(Wednesday) 5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
