People in Dallas are hungry for poetry,” says Mag Gabbert, the city’s poet laureate. “There’s so much demand for participating in events, for offering workshops, for educating folks in different contexts across the city, and for bringing these kinds of public art initiatives and celebratory initiatives that people can participate in.” Other Dallasites agree. And at a time when literary arts organizations across the United States are struggling for funding, an expanding constellation of partnerships in Dallas is supporting bold investments in poetry. A substantial addition to the lineup launched this April, when Dallas-based literary organization and nonprofit publishing house Deep Vellum announced that it would be publishing ten new poetry collections each year, under the banner Central Track Poetry, in collaboration with Southern Methodist University’s Project Poëtica.{read}