Join Mag Gabbert and Sebastian Paramo as they host four writers for this month's Pegasus Reading Series! RSVP Here

Named Best Poetry Night by the Dallas Observer in 2015!

Taneum Bambrick is the author of Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in September, 2019). Her chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, PEN, Narrative, The Missouri Review, 32 Poems, West Branch, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Graham Barnhart is the author of The War Makes Everyone Lonely forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series. A US Army veteran, he is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Review's Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, and The Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Poetry Prize as well as support from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference and Writing Workshops in Greece. His work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from, 32 Poems, The Boiler, The Gettysburg Review, The Sewanee Review, and others. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow and lives in Oakland, CA. More of his work can be found at www.grahambarnhartpoetry.com.

Molly Bess Rector lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she cocurates the Open Mouth Reading Series. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas, and is the recipient of residencies from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as a grant by the Artists 3 60 program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Best New
Poets 2019, among others.

Originally from Georgia, Jess Smith is currently pursuing a PhD in English & Creative Writing at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX where she co-founded and curates the LHUCA Literary Series. Her poetry, essays, and criticism can be found in Prairie Schooner, Waxwing, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, and other journals. She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and is the recipient of scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center.