Join us for a reading and exhibit to celebrate the launch of the latest issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. The keynote poet is J. Scott Brownlee, and the featured artist is Alyssa Surabian. Other readers include John Fry and Katelin Kelly, and Cindy Huyser will also read and discuss the career of Debra Winegarten.

Bring friends – join the celebration! The event is free of charge and open to everyone.

Borderlands is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

J. Scott Brownlee is a poet-of-place from Llano, Texas. His poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbooks Highway or Belief, Ascension, and On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County. Honors for these collections include the 2013 Button Poetry Prize, 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Prize, and 2015 Tree Light Books Prize. His first full-length collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award and selected by C. Dale Young as the winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. It also won the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He currently lives in Austin, Texas and teaches for Brooklyn Poets as a core faculty member.

Alyssa Surabian’s work is currently available at the Bent Tree Gallery in Wimberley, TX. She is an active member in the Wimberley Vallery Art League where she is often accepted into juried shows, sometimes winning awards. Born in Boston, Alyssa now lives and works in Wimberley, TX. She earned her MS in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University in Boston.