Thu, Feb 19
|George Washington Carver Museum
Writers Across the Diaspora, Austin featuring Dr. Malika Booker
Reading and conversation. Light refreshments provided.
Time & Location
Feb 19, 2026, 7:00 PM CST
George Washington Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Join Torch Literary Arts, in partnership with Texas State University, and the Carver Museum, for Writers Across the Diaspora featuring award-winning British poet, Dr. Malika Booker!
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Reading and Conversation at 7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.
Malika Booker is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, and co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). The Anthology - Two Young, Two Black, Too Different, Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen was recently published to celebrate Malika Poetry Kitchen’s twenty-year anniversary. Her pamphlet Breadfruit, (flippedeye, 2007) received a Poetry Society recommendation, and her poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She is published with the Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in…