Gulf Coast Spring 2016 Issue Launch with Unsung Masters

On Thursday, April 14th, at 7PM,  Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts celebrates the release of its Summer/Fall 2016 issue, 28.2, and the latest volume of Unsung Masters, featuring the work of Beatrice Hastings, the early modernist author and critic.

The event includes readings from the new issue of Gulf Coast and Hastings’s fascinating poetry and prose.

The event is free, open to the public, and will be held at the Jung Center at 5200 Montrose Boulevard in Houston, TX. Wine and cheese reception to follow.

Gulf Coast’s newest issue, dubbed “The Archive Issue,” and the latest installment of the Unsung Masters Series, are both funded in part through an Innovations grant from the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

The new issue includes eight locally and nationally known authors’ original responses to items held by the University of Houston’s Special Collections. These pairings of image and original text are stunning.

On the 14th, Lupe Mendez and Nishta Mehra, two of the Houston-based authors participating in the project, will read their work and join Ben Johnson and Erika Jo Brown, editors of the latest Unsung Masters Series volume, in a conversation about the rich possibilities for authors, artists, and scholars found in archives and archival work.

The evening promises inspiring readings and discussion.