Name: First Monday Open-Mic with Paul Austin
Start: 2026-05-04T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Ada Public Library

Please join us Monday, May 4, at 6 p.m. inside the Ada Public Library for First Monday Open-Mic!
Our next feature for the open-mic is none other than, Paul Austin!
Austin’s most recent book is Mother and Son published by Turning Plow Press. Spontaneous Behavior, the Art and Craft of Acting, was also published by Turning Plow Press. His poetry collection, Notes on Hard Times, was published by Village Books Press. His work has appeared in This Land, Sugar Mule, Oklahoma Review, More Monologues by Men, and Newport Review. His poems have also been included in Speak Your Mind, the 2019 anthology of Woody Guthrie Poets, and Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush, an anthology of Oklahoma poetry, Behind the mask: Haiku in the Time of Covid-19, Jerry Jazz Musician, and LEVEL Land: poems for and about the I-35 corridor. His latest collection Late Night Conspiracies, a collection of his writings, was performed with jazz ensemble at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. He’s currently working on a new play, a collection of his plays, a yet to be titled collected poems and In first Light, prose and poems about the theatre. More about his writing and his life in the theatre can be found on his website: http://pjaustin83.ag-sites.net.