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Inprint Book Club

Inprint Book Club: Selected poems from Sharon Olds and Tony Hoagland

Sunday June 12, 2016 4:00 pm

Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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The Inprint Book Club will discuss selected poems (listed below) by Sharon Olds and Tony Hoagland, who were scheduled to appear as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public.

The following poems from Sharon Olds’ collection Stag’s Leap will be discussed: Crazy, Discandied, The Healers, Known to Be Left, Stag’s Leap, Material Ode, Poem for the Breasts, Tiny Siren, On Reading a Newspaper for the First Time as an Adult, Years Later, and What Left?

The following poems from Tony Hoagland’s collection Application for Release from the Dream will be discussed: Ode to the Republic, The Hero’s Journey, Little Champion, But the Men, The Wetness, The Neglected Art of Description, White Writer, Ship, Because It Is Houston, Update, and Fetch.

The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading featuring Tony Hoagland & Sharon Olds on April 18, 2016 had to be cancelled due to storms and flooding in Houston. Inprint was able to videotape both poets reading from their work during a break in the rain that day. Click here to watch video.

For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.