Poetry Reading at Katherine Anne Porter House

Visiting writers’ events scheduled for fall 2014 and spring 2015. Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center readings are held at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle, Texas. The series is sponsored by Texas State University’s Department of English, the Lindsey Literary Series, the Burdine Johnson Foundation, and the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center.  The readings are free and open to the public.

Brian Turner is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the 2006 Pen Center USA Award, and the 2007 Poets Prize. His memoir is My Life as a Foreign Country. Turner served in the US Army for seven years, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq. His poetry appeared in Voices in Wartime, and he was featured in Operation Homecoming, a documentary of firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women. In 2009 Turner won a United States Artists Fellowship.