July 21, 2024
Experience Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History through the written word. This event features performances by local writers Ayokunle Falomo, Miranda Ramírez, and Amanda Ortiz inspired by the exhibition.

Plan Your Visit

• This program is included with Museum admission. The performances take place in the exhibition gallery in the Beck Building.
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About the Speakers
Ayokunle Falomo is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024); AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry; two self-published collections; and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019), selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s eighth annual chapbook contest. A recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in creative writing, his work has been anthologized and widely published.

Miranda Ramírez is a multidisciplinary artist; writer; founder and director of Defunkt Press; and literary columnist for Public Poetry. Ramírez has been featured in Atticus Review, Coffin Bell, Cowboy Jamboree, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, and St. Lucy Books’ forthcoming compendium Double Feature. She holds an MFA in writing, editing, and publishing from Sam Houston State University and is the Betsy Writer’s Room Artist-in-Residence for July 2024.

Amanda Ortiz is a Chicanx nonbinary poet based in Houston. Ortiz attended the Creative Writing program at the University of Houston, where they served as Glass Mountain's Managing Editor. They host the monthly open mic for Odessa Collective. Ortiz has self-published two chapbooks, in which their poetic works seek to elevate the mundane and often comprise observations and bits of stolen dialogue.