April 23rd reading at the Leslie Powell Gallery Cancelled :-(

Poet, Sy Hoahwah, an Oklahoma Native and a friend of mine from the M.F.A. program at the University of Arkansas will be back in town later on this month and will be giving a reading.

On Friday, April 23rd

At 7pm

The Leslie Powell Gallery

@ 1620 Southwest D Ave.

He will read from his book,

Velroy and the Madischie Mafia

Here's a bit about the book from the publisher's website.

'Poet Sy Hoahwah’s hometown, Madischie, in Comanche County, Oklahoma, was named for a 110-year-old Comanche whose only English was “I do not speak English.”
Hoahwah’s Comanche County is not the place of the myths of Native America, wrinkled elders earnestly singing prayers. Instead, Hoahwah’s forty-one poems in Velroy and the Madischie Mafia portray a contemporary Indian Country where traditions spar with change, where old ways compete with drugs, violence, and pop culture for control of the next generation of Indians.'

And you can read some of the poems at

The Poetry Foundation website.

Of course copies of the book will be available at the reading, but I have a few right now if you want one. It is a beautiful book. I know you will love it.

This will be a wonderful way to spend some time on a Friday night in spring--among friends, in a beautiful art gallery, listening to a brilliant local poet read his work. There will be a chance to talk with Sy afterwards and to get your book signed. I believe there will also be refreshments.