Schedule Of Events

April 3, 2025

I. 9:30 - 10:45 Estep Auditorium
Woodstok Farley: Mingus Texas
The Killing of the Poet Laureate of Corpus Christi: A Nod to Edgar Allan Poe
Julie Chappell: Lake Keystone, Oklahoma
Watermarks
David Meischen: Albuquerque, NM
Caliche Road Poems

II. 11:00 - 12:10 Estep Auditorium
John Morris: Cameron University
That Short Green Time, and other poems
Ashley Korpela: Oklahoma City, OK
Matriarch: Essays
Don Stinson: Moore, Oklahoma
Carousel of Illusions 

III. 11:00 - 12:10 Regents Room
Sarah Webb: Burnet, Texas
Rock and the Kid
Todd Fuller: University of Oklahoma
64 Steps of Doon: Archival Poetry and other Primary Sources
Joshua Grasso: East Central University
Vanishing Acts 

IV. 11:00 - 12:10 Boswell Chapel
Ky George: Gallup, New Mexico
Bring Me Home
Nathan Brown: University of Oklahoma
The Fallen Autumn: The Birth of a Vagabond - Book 2
Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas
from Southern Voices 

V. 2:10 - 3:20 Estep Auditorium
Chris Murphy: Northeastern State University
Territories
Sally Rhoades: Albany, New York
Taking Time
Molly Sizer: Lawton, Oklahoma
Rules of the Road 

VI. 2:10 - 3:20 Regents Room
John Yozzo: Tulsa, Oklahoma
When We Dark Awaken: Poems to Amuse Rather than Terrify
Stephanie Theban: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Elvis has Left the Building
Wade Thompson: USAO
Hibakusha, and other poems 

VII. 3:30 - 4:40 Estep Auditorium
Rilla Askew: University of Oklahoma
The Color of Verdigris
Ashley Oakes: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Goldilocks at Fifty
Steve Pedersen: East Central University
Dog Days 

VIII. 3:30 - 4:40 Regents Room
Benjamin Myers: Oklahoma Baptist University
As Sparks Fly Upward
Luri Owen: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tasty Tidbits of Poetry
Zachary Scalzo: University of Central Oklahoma
Supernova Era 

IX. 7:00 - 8:30 Estep Auditorium
Featuring: Julie Hensley
(Authors’ Reception - Polo’s Restaurant)

April 4, 2025

X. 9:00 - 9:50 Estep Auditorium
Hank Jones: Tarleton State University
Not Light, Nor Wind, Nor Trees
Linda Neal Reising: Poseyville, Indiana
Navigating through Life and Memory 

XI. 9:00 - 9:50 Regents Room
Joey Brown: Joplin, Missouri
Turn Out the Lights: Poems from Busted Oklahoma
Corbett Buchly: Richardson, Texas
Interiors 

XII. 10:00 - 10:50 Estep Auditorium
Tina Carlson: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mothers and Manta Rays
Ben Payne: Harding HS, Oklahoma City
My Neighbor's Dog 

XIII. 10:00 - 10:50 Regents Room
Peter biles: East Central University
Last November
Paul Austin: Norman, Oklahoma
Mother and Son 

XIV. 10:00 - 10:50 Boswell Chapel
Cindy Huyser: Austin, Texas
Cartography
Paul Bowers: Northern Oklahoma College
We’ll All Be Better People 

XV. 11:00 - 12:10 Estep Auditorium
Denise Tolan: San Antonio, Texas
This is What Love Looks Like
Stanton Yeakley: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Eremocene: Hope in the Age of Loneliness
Phil Morgan: Blanchard, Oklahoma
The Southernmost Acre, and other poems 

XVI. 11:00 - 12:10 Regents Room
Ron Wallace: Durant, Oklahoma
Life is Still a Beautiful Disaster
Susan Ayres: Ft. Worth, Texas
Red Cardinal, White Snow
Bill McCloud: Rogers State University
The Error of the Stars

XVII. 11:00 -12:10 Boswell Chapel
Wendy Dunmeyer: Lawton, OK
Fool Me Once
Crag Hill: University of Oklahoma
The Calendar
Gianna Loboda: Ada, Oklahoma
True Eden, and other poems

XVIII. 2:10 - 3:20 Estep Auditorium
Alan Berecka: Sinton, Texas
Poems about Belief
Kristen Grace: Oklahoma City, OK
The Skull Tree
Robert Dean Johnson: Richmond, KY
Alexandrov & Petrooshki 

XIX. 2:10 -3:20 Regents Room
Paul Juhasz: Seminole State College
Prufrock’s Mermaids & other poems
Shaun Perkins: Locust Grove, OK
Dear Cryptid
Andrew Geyer: Univ. South Carolina-Aiken
Barter 

XX. 3:35 - 4:45 Estep Auditorium
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish: Albuquerque, NM
Love Story, and other poems
Mark Walling: East Central University
Mama's Boy
Bob Sykora: Kansas City, Kansas
Utopians in Love 

XXI. 3:35 -4:45 Regents Room
Sly Alley: Tecumseh, Oklahoma
Flag Song and other poems
Heather Levy: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This Violent Heart
Luke Fredette: USAO
The Stories

XXII. 7:00 - 8:30 pm Estep Auditorium  
Featuring: ire’ne lara silva

April 5, 2025

XXIII. 9:00 - 10:25 Estep Auditorium
Ann Howells: Carrollton, Texas
Come Fly With Me
Cullen Whisenhunt: Eastern Ok State College
Anticlimax
Constance Squires: UCO
Low April Sun
Cody Baggerly: East Central University
Hardly Been Born 

XXIV. 9:00 - 10:25 Regents Room
Quinn Carver Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Nursing Home Dog, and other poems
Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma
How I Ride, and other poems
Robert Roensch: Oklahoma City University
The Quarry
Sharon Edge Martin: Oilton, Oklahoma
Granny’s Gone 

XXV. 10:35 -11:45 Estep Auditorium
Jessica Turcat: Oklahoma State University
Hunger House
Melissa Heath-Lee: Red Oak, OK
The Exquisite Ache of Loss
Tom Murphy: Corpus Christi, Texas
The Great American Windmill Bob Kaufman Destroyed 

XXVI. 10:35 -11:45 Regents Room
Michael Howarth: Missouri Southern State Univ
Who's Who Among Fallen Women
Chloe LaFevers: East Central University
Still Looking
Zhenya Yevtushenko: Tulsa, OK
Field Guide to Femininity 

XXVII. 12:15 - 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium
Grand Finale, Featuring: Ken Hada

Date : April 3-5, 2025

Location :

East Central University,

1100 East 14th Street

Ada, OK 74820

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