Boasting the inaugural Dallas poet laureate title and The Dallas Morning News’ crown of the “People’s Poet,” Joaquín Zihuatanejo has a lot to recommend his work. His newest collection utilizes poetic erasure to remake long-form works by heterosexual white men into his own pieces – “the white space that remains becoming colonized Brown verse,” as the event copy says. Attend this event to hear those works read aloud as well as witness Zihuatanejo in conversation with local poet – and the person behind getting Austin its own poet laureate – KB Brookins. – James Scott