A poetry reading centered on the theme of “Pink,” featuring Bleah Patterson and Katie Condon.

Part of Deep Vellum’s Deep Ellum Block Party activations with Deep Ellum Art Row.

Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize (The Ohio State University Press / Mad Creek Books, 2020). Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, as well as the 2025 Best American Poetry Anthology and 100 Poems that Matter, an Academy of American Poets anthology. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and serves as the poetry editor for a book series with Project Poëtica | Bridwell Press.

Bleah Patterson is a queer, southern poet from Texas. Much of her work explores the contention between identity and home. Her work has been featured in various journals including Electric Literature, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, and Taco Bell Quarterly. Her debut collection WORM GIRL is forthcoming in Spring 2027.