Everyone is welcome to attend the Austin Community College Creative Writing Department’s Literary Coffeehouse, hosted by John Herndon.

Featured reader W. Joe Hoppe is a poet, mechanic, and professor of English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Galvanized (Dalton Publishing) and Diamond Plate (Obsolete Press). His poems have appeared in Borderlands, Di*Verse*Cities, Nerve Cowboy and Utter, and the Blanton Museum of Art’s Poetry Project. He was named Austin’s Best Mopar Poet for 2016 by the Austin Chronicle.

An open mic follows, so bring poems, stories, scripts, rants, raves or midnight confessions to share, or just come to listen and enjoy.