English: Author and poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes reading at the Neustadt Festival opening night. Poets Amit Majmudar, Valzhyna Mort, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, and Wang Ping opened the night, and then novelists Padma Viswanathan and Alison Anderson followed. Oklahoma writers Nathan Brown and Rilla Askew introduced the readers. The reception was in the Sandy Bell Gallery at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Photo by Tyler Christian.