Catch discussion series with Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves at Central Library

Time to get intellectual. The Library Foundation and the Texas Book Festival have announced the next installment of “In Conversation,” a free event series that hosts two authors talking about their work. Catch MacArthur Foundation fellow Terrance Hayes and Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roger Reeves at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Central Library (710 W. Cesar Chavez St.). Both authors have new essay collections: “Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Hayes’s ‘Watch Your Language’ … a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated micro-essays addressing the last century of American poetry. And in his debut work of nonfiction, ‘Dark Days: Fugitive Essays’ … the Austin-based Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, freedom, and ecstasy,” according to the announcement. The authors will sign books after the discussion, and books will be available for purchase from Black Pearl Books. Get more information here.