Books, Bagels, & Bucks: Sandi Stromberg & Rebecca Spears
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Sandi Stromberg and Rebecca Spears offer a morning of poetry on Sunday, September 20 at 10am. Sandi will read from her latest collection Moonlight, Shaken, and Rebecca from Turning the Lights Back On. Võ Đức Quang will moderate a conversation between the two poets.
Thanks to a generous donor, every attendee will receive a $5 gift certificate for Basket Books & Art.
Sandi Stromberg is the author of two poetry collections, Moonlight, Shaken (2026) and Frogs Don’t Sing Red (2023). Her poems have appeared in many small journals and anthologies, among them San Pedro River Review, Gyroscope Review, MockingHeart Review, and The Senior Class. An editor at The Ekphrastic Review, she also edited two anthologies of poetry—Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston and Echoes of the Cordillera. A four-time Pushcart and two-time Best of the Net nominee, she was a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Fest eleven times. Dutch translations of her poems have appeared in Brabant Cultureel.
Rebecca A. Spears, author of Brook the Divide and The Bright Obvious, has poems, essays, and reviews included in TriQuarterly, Narrative, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Verse Daily, and other journals and anthologies. Brook the Divide was shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry (Texas Institute of Letters, 2020). Her work has also received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations. Most recently, Spears has been awarded a Poetry Fellowship from Porches Writing Retreat (2024) and named Writer-in-Residence at Dairy Hollow House (2025).
Thanks to a generous donor, every attendee will receive a $5 gift certificate for Basket Books & Art.
Sandi Stromberg is the author of two poetry collections, Moonlight, Shaken (2026) and Frogs Don’t Sing Red (2023). Her poems have appeared in many small journals and anthologies, among them San Pedro River Review, Gyroscope Review, MockingHeart Review, and The Senior Class. An editor at The Ekphrastic Review, she also edited two anthologies of poetry—Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston and Echoes of the Cordillera. A four-time Pushcart and two-time Best of the Net nominee, she was a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Fest eleven times. Dutch translations of her poems have appeared in Brabant Cultureel.
Rebecca A. Spears, author of Brook the Divide and The Bright Obvious, has poems, essays, and reviews included in TriQuarterly, Narrative, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Verse Daily, and other journals and anthologies. Brook the Divide was shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry (Texas Institute of Letters, 2020). Her work has also received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations. Most recently, Spears has been awarded a Poetry Fellowship from Porches Writing Retreat (2024) and named Writer-in-Residence at Dairy Hollow House (2025).
