Join us for a poetry reading with Steve Bellin-Oka, Raye Hendrix, and Lisa L. Moore (left to right, below). Sponsored by the Poets & Scholars reading series from UT-Austin’s Poetry & Poetics Interest Group.

Steve Bellin-Oka earned his MFA from the University of Virginia and his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. He is the author of two chapbooks, O Frankenstein (Blue Trouser Press, 2003) and Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station (Seven Kitchens Press, 2017). His first book, Instructions for Seeing a Ghost, is forthcoming in 2020. The recipient of a 2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, he has also received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Arts. His poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Nimrod, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other publications, and his interviews with other poets appear in Adroit and Mississippi Review. He lives in Portales, New Mexico.

Raye Hendrix is a poet from Middle-Of-Nowhere, Alabama, who loves cats, crystals, and classic rock. Raye is the Online Content and Web Editor for Bat City Review and is pursuing her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. Her recent work can be found in Southern Indiana Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, The Pinch, and elsewhere.

Lisa L. Moore is the author of the chapbook 24 Hours of Men (Dancing Girl, 2018). Her writing has been recognized with the Art/Lines Poetry Prize and the Lambda Book Award. She is Director of the LGBTQ Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin.