Randall Horton Book Release

Magic City Books, Tri-City Collective, Tulsa Artist Fellowship along with Joel Daniel Phillips & Quraysh Ali Lansana present a reading by Randall Horton for his book release of "dead weight, a memoir in essays".

Dead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions. Horton’s visceral essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one’s life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.

Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. 

In addition, Randall has been interviewed on Fox News, NPR, CTNPR, CSPAN,…