06/15/2026
Thursday!
D-CLAIM is a Dallas-based jazz & literature collective founded by poet/bassist J.D. Debris, backing contemporary poets with hypnotic live-band grooves. Sponsored by Project Poëtica at SMU English, D-CLAIM brings together hip-hop tinged jazz with a poetry reading on the third Thursday of every month, highlighting an improvisational confluence of words and music.
Randall J. Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Oversound Poetry, Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, Gulf Coast and Nomadic Press. He has been anthologized in the Bodies Built For A Game Anthology by Prairie Schooner. He has been a Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar and a Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellow for the Writers Week at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. His collection City of Dis was released in November 2025 by Texas Review Press and was an Honor Winner of the Naomi Shihab Nye Award for Best First Book of Poetry by Texas Institute of Letters. City of Dis was also an Eric Hoffer Award Finalist. Currently, he leads Writers Who Aren’t Writing, a collective where Houston-area writers and artists gather to workshop their writing, exchange ideas, and find community support. He’s very excited for you.
Ste’fon Landers — Saxophone
Manny Galindo — Piano
Nicholas Rothouse — Percussion
J.D. Debris — Bass
This event is free and open to the public.
