Texas Book Festival and The Library Foundation are thrilled to co-present another In Conversation event featuring Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves in an author-to-author dialogue on August 2, 2023, at 7 PM in Austin Central Library’s Gallery Room. The event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase thanks to Black Pearl Books. Find tickets here.

Terrance Hayes is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the author of So to Speak, a powerful and timely new collection of poems, and the brilliant essay collection Watch Your Language (Penguin). Roger Reeves is the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the author of the groundbreaking essay collection Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf).

The In Conversation series is sponsored by Amplify Credit Union.