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Our next book club selection is Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, a gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries

This event will be in person

Find this book in our bookstore or get it delivered to your home from our online store

You can also join our Goodreads group here!

Let’s meet up and talk Literature!

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Join us for a very special anniversary celebration, our dear friends from Deep Vellum are turning 10 years and we are turning 9, so how about throwing an all out party to enjoy all the things we love!

A full day event with mind blowing literature, afrobeat rhythms, cumbia, hip hop, art vendors, tattoos, book sales and international DJs.

Here is the program, join us anytime, the event is free and open to everyone. You can RSVP HERE

Mind blowing literature with Mircea Cărtărescu & Sean Cotter (Romania & USA)

Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu and translator San Cotter will discuss the process of writing and translating Solenoid, considered by many one of the greatest novels of the 21^st century. This event is possible thanks to the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Afrobeats with Baba Kuboye (Nigeria)

Babatunmida Kuboye is an Afrobeat artist based in the United States. He is the son of jazz legends, Fran & Tunde Kuboye, and grandnephew of the late Afrobeat King, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Baba Kuboye, whose earliest musical influence came from growing up at the renowned Jazz 38 club Lagos Nigeria, with his parents, is a chip off the old block with his socially conscious voice running through his music

Cumbia with Papi Chulo (Dallas)

The four-piece Dallas band created a new subgenre it calls cumbia artesanal, which it compares to a craft beer made from each member’s musical interests. Anything goes, so long as its foundation is cumbia. The percussion-heavy traditional dance music is the most popular genre in Latin America. and Papi Chulo takes from its history and own influences to accomplish one thing: It just wants to make people dance. Simple.

X – The Pop Up! A black experimental music series curated by Mattie. (with Mons, Vøhn and Joshua Miller)

By using introspective visuals, lyrical self-inquiry, solful melodics, experimental instrumentation, MATTIE guides her audience into a visual and sonic world of duality. MONS is a hard to pin artist & human. with introspective lyrics, intimite rap and experimental sounds influenced by jazz, r&b, rap, electronic and rock; they create a transcendental sonic experience. VØHN is an alternative soul/hip hop artist whose music is based in the story of human exploration and trippy sound discovery. We call his music big bags! JOSHUA MILLER is a free improvisational saxophonist/drummer with deep Ft Worth Texas roots. his delivery is unexplainable, and completely open to interpretation of the listener.

Afro Latin rhythms with Elkin Pautt (Colombia)

Colombian Music Producer, based in Dallas TX via Brooklyn, NY. Since early childhood captivated by music, curiosity made him his own teacher. West African influenced music that incorporates Electronica and analog synthesis makes a strong combination of sounds reflected in his work. The DJ sets travel around the world exploring exotic sounds from Afro-house to soukous, Latin grooves to Afrobeats, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and more.

Electronic beats with DJ Tempranillo (Madrid)

From the nights of Madrid we’re bringing our old friend and TWD collaborator, Dj Tempranillo.

Book Sale by Deep Vellum

Our dearest publishing company will be onsite with special offers and discounts for some of the amazing titles they publish every year

Special Bookish tattoos with Gino Dal Cin & Kristin Wright!!!

Goods from Everything Ellum & Street-ish

Art by Angelic Vortex, Jess Stewart, Paige Blaylock and The Ruby Co

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Mark your calendars, another Dallas Noir At The Bar is coming to The Wild Detectives featuring an amazing line up!

Gift card prizes at the door!!!

See you at the bar!

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This workshop leads participants through a series of writing exercises exploring the role that prepositions and directions play in the processes of grief and healing. Much of the time, the language we use assumes a linear and time-bound process that doesn’t match our complicated experiences of grief. Together, we’ll write to find more productive angles in which to view and move through loss.

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Alysia Nicole Harris, Ph.D. is a poet, linguist, international performer, arts writer, and charismatic follower of Jesus. She is the author of the chapbook How Much We Must Haved Looked Like Stars to Stars, a collegiate and youth poetry slam champion, and founding member of the spoken word collective The Strivers Row. Alysia has performed in over 20 countries and now lives in Corsicana, TX where she serves as Scalawag‘s Arts & Soul Editor-At-Large. She received her Ph.D. from Yale in Linguistics and her MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.

Grief, like good poetry, isn’t linear. It’s rarely straightforward, often confusing. It circles and lifts, eddies and fades, then comes back all the sudden to punch you in the gut when you least expect it. Sometimes it’s furious, sometimes persistent, and sometimes even sweet.

Most of language fails us when it comes to grief, which is why we need a practice of reviving the basic tools we have to talk about what we’ve gone through, are still going through.

Poetry can be that practice: messy, personal, reaching, revelatory.

For National Poetry Month, Scalawag takes our grief and other loves on the road; We’re hosting writing workshops with poets across the South to create spaces we can gather in community where we can struggle to find the words together.

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