Real-life, real Texan stories arrive at Wortham Center with Texas Monthly LIVE

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Deborah Mouton, a spoken-word poet who competes in poetry slams at the national level, is one of the storytellers of Texas Monthly LIVE.

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The magazine Texas Monthly is bringing its new storytelling event, "Texas Monthly LIVE," to Houston for the first time.

The event, taking place June 7 at the Wortham Center, is a multimedia show featuring Texas stories, many of them from editors and writers at the magazine. The event premiered in Austin, where the magazine's offices are located, in 2018, and is returning for a second season.

Writer and Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth tells a story entering the gates of a local state hospital in his childhood hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas. Executive Editor Mimi Swartz tells "Life, in Dog Years," about the death of her father and her family's relationship with pets.

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Writer Cat Cardenas will tell the story "The Lion Tamer," about her grandfather immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico. Houston Poet Laureate Deborah Mouton shares a memory from Hurricane Harvey, and how one poem inspired a community after the disaster.

The event is hosted by David Courtney, who writes a column for Texas Monthly as "The Texanist."

The Houston engagement is part of a larger tour, which includes Austin, Brownsville and San Antonio.

For tickets, which are $34, call 832-487-7041 or visit texasmonthly.com/event/texas-monthly-live-2019.

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