All through the spring and summer, while the UNT English Department reading series wound down, Tex Gallery picked up the slack. Tex Gallery is an art space that is run by a couple of guys that decided their house would be more fun if people came over to check out readings, jazz and experimental music, and local artists. They also thought it would be fun to start their own review. So they made both of those things happen, and now every month or so they set up a showing and invite everybody they know, which includes a lot of the people in the creative writing department here at UNT.
I've read there a few times, as have several of our other graduate students, and every time I've been super jazzed afterward. Imagine a large living room without any furniture that is packed with people. It's about ninety degrees, and everybody is sweating and sitting on the floor. I'm talking unbearably hot and uncomfortable. But when you get up there to read, things get electric. They came to see you read. That's what they're doing there. It's a pretty great feeling.
The readers are phenomenal, too. Below are Colin Winnette and Michael Inscoe from last week's set list (full disclosure: my reading will probably be uploaded to the texgallery YouTube account later in the week. I encourage you not to look at it).
So yeah, that's one reason it's great to live in Denton. Not only that, there was also the informal summer reading series that our friend Adam put together (Adam, I would probably brag about you if you had a youtube account), and now that the semester's started back up we also have the monthly student reading series again. In fact, we're having one this Saturday at 7:30 at the Jupiter house on University. Readers include Chelsea Woodard, Nathan Logan, Tim Boswell, Jessica Hindman, Jaclyn Thies, and Zach VandeZande (that's me). If you are within driving distance, there are worse things to do with your Saturday.
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