Wed, Feb 18
|The Wittliff Collections
Writers Across the Diaspora, San Marcos featuring Dr. Malika Booker
Presented by Torch and Texas State University English Department
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2026, 3:30 PM CST
The Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, 7th Floor, Talbot St, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
About the event
Join Torch Literary Arts, in partnership with the Texas State University English Department, and The Wittliff Collections, for Writers Across the Diaspora featuring award-winning British poet, Dr. Malika Booker!
The Wittliff Collections
*Located on the seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University
This event is free and open to the public.
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…