BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry featuring Laura Van Prooyen and Cecily Parks

BookWoman welcomes features Laura Van Prooyen and Cecily Parks in-store in celebration of Van Prooyen’s new chapbook, Sorry, But We No Longer Offer Bereavement Fares (FlowerSong Press, 2026). The event will take place simultaneously on Zoom. Cindy Huyser and Julia Ross co-host, and an open mic follows the featured reading. If you're joining us in-store at 5501 N. Lamar #A-105, be sure to bring a mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining us via Zoom, be sure to register via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HA2VkQCqQAqMFr4wWy99wA [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HA2VkQCqQAqMFr4wWy99wA]) and to log into your Zoom account with email and password before accessing the link. Laura Van Prooyen is author of four collections of poetry, most recently the chapbook Sorry, We No Longer Offer Bereavement Fares. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review, among others. Laura facilitates workshops for healthcare workers, works as an independent consultant, and teaches at Trinity University. She lives in San Antonio, TX and is the founder and director of Next Page Press. www.lauravanprooyen.com [http://www.lauravanprooyen.com/] Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections, including The Seeds, which was a finalist for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award and named one of NPR’s Books We Love. She is the guest editor of Best New Poets 2025 and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Nation, The New Republic, several editions of The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin. Contact BookWoman to order your copy of Sorry, We No Longer Offer Bereavement Fares, The Seeds, and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: bookwomanaustin@gmail.com; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com [https://ebookwoman.com] .