Thu, Apr 17
|Carver Museum
Give Praise: A Celebration of Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston
Time & Location
Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 PM
Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Join Torch Literary Arts at the Carver Museum for this special National Poetry Month event celebrating Texas Poet Laureate and Torch Founder, Amanda Johnston. Johnston is the founder and executive director of Torch Literary Arts and the first Black woman to hold the position of Texas Poet Laureate.
Special guests, award-winning poets KB Brookins and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton will share remarks and original works.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 2024 Texas Poet Laureate. She has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit management and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among…