Events

Help us celebrate twenty-nine years of connecting people through the power of language with a reception and gorgeous charcuterie spread from Grazing Dallas in the beautiful Turner House. Presented by the R. L. & Phyllis Glazer Foundation.

Sunday, May 19th | 7pm Free | RSVP Required Born of a desire to bring the many members of the North Texas poetry community into conversation with each other, The Common Language Project places participants in the same room and turns them loose to dream. We hope you'll join us for a reading of some…

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us! The Graphic Novel Experience: From Concept to Creation will explore the dynamic world of graphic…

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!   A poem is a gesture toward home. -Jericho Brown As Brown suggests in his…

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us! This two-hour workshop will explore the differences between screenwriting and playwriting in order to capitalize…

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us! Poetry is a medium that relies on abstraction and dealing with abstract conceptions such as…

Cake & Prose is back! Cake and Prose is a unique literary event celebrating genre fiction, local talent, and cake. The ingredients are simple: Three stories. An author shares three stories — read by three different actors. These stories could be any genre. They could be short stories or excerpts of a longer work. Three songs. A…

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us! Let’s explore the many adventures and colorful characters we encounter through children’s literature. Participants will…

Join Gregg Thompson for a guided discussion of modernist poet Mina Loy's The Last Lunar Baedeker. Gregg Thompson makes his living as a real estate investor,  having previously worked in investment banking and the printing industry. He has a BA in History from one land grant college and MAs in Literature and Philosophy. He writes…

Most of us are familiar with the Haiku poetic form–or at least we think we are. Haiku are 3 lined short poems about nature with a serious theme and have a Japanese kigo (seasonal word) or a kireji (a cutting word).  Senryu are 3 lined short poems about the human condition, often humorous or cynical that do not use kigo or kireji words.…