Poetry Is Good For You
The University of Texas Creative Writing Program has a reputation for scoring amazing, talented writers and poets as visiting professors. The good news for the average Austinite is that these "visitors" will usually give a public reading at some point during their semester-long stay. Tonight poet and UT visiting professor Jill Alexander Essbaum will be busting rhymes -for free!- in the Harry Ransom Center's Tom Lea Rooms.
A former Austin resident currently sporting a Swiss address, Jill Essbaum has returned to teach her craft and encourage students to read more Byron. Her work has appeared in countless journals and her two collections of poetry, Heaven and Oh Forbidden, have been heaped upon with praise. Her third collection, Harlot, is due out later this year. Essbaum's poems are a rare blend of raw humanity and the ethereal. Rest assured, her readings are never boring.
Copies of Heaven and Oh Forbidden will be available for purchase at the reading. What better cure for a SXSW hangover than live poetry? Cultural enrichment and general awesomeness commences tonight at 7pm.
The Creative Writing Program at UT Austin presents Jill Alexander Essbaum
Tonight! Thursday, March 29
The Harry Ransom Center's Tom Lea Rooms (3.206) [map]
7:00pm, FREE!
