BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry featuring Margo Davis and Rebecca A. Spears

Thu Jun 11 2026 at 07:15 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

BookWoman | Austin

Cindy Huyser
Publisher/HostCindy Huyser
BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry featuring Margo Davis and Rebecca A. Spears
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BookWoman welcomes Houston poets Margo Davis and Rebecca A. Spears in celebration of their new books of poetry. An open mic follows.
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BookWoman Second Thursday Poetry Reading and Open Mic welcomes features Margo Davis and Rebecca A. Spears. Davis and Spears, both from Houston, will be in-store on Thursday, June 11, 2026 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CDT, and the reading will take place simultaneously on Zoom. Cindy Huyser and Julia Ross co-host, and an open mic follows.

If you're joining us in-store at 5501 N. Lamar #A-105, be sure to bring a mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining us via Zoom, be sure to register via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tICvrCQSQrWMv9Czo6V9fw) and to log into your Zoom account with email and password before accessing the link.

Margo Davis defends writing as a socially acceptable form of talking to herself. Perhaps subject to what’s expressed. The author of a full-length collection, Uncoupling (Lamar University Literary Press, 2026), and a chapbook, Quicksilver (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Davis is also a three-time Pushcart nominee. Her poems have also appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Passager, Verse Daily, Equinox, Panoply, Willawaw and numerous anthologies (Dos Gatos Press & LULP). Poised for the next writing residency, Margo hovers in Houston, packed bag beneath the bed.

Rebecca Spears, author of Turning the Lights Back On, Brook the Divide and The Bright Obvious, has her writing included in Narrative, Catamaran, Verse Daily, The Nature of Our Times and other publications. She has received several awards, including the Equinox prose award (2025), nominations for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize as well as recognition from the Texas Institute of Letters (2021). She received her MFA at Bennington College and currently teaches writing at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Contact BookWoman to order your copy of Uncoupling, Turning the Lights Back On, and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com .



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