PEN CHIEF IN DALLAS

Kate Gale, the beautemous and activist president of PEN Center USA, headquartered in LA, comes to Dallas this weekend for the Writes of Spring Literary Festival, Friday through Sunday. PEN Texas, a regional chapter headquartered in Dallas, hosts a reception for Kate on Saturday at the Highland Park home of Joan Howell, whose husband, the late R. Patton Howell, was founder and first president of PEN Texas back in 1991. We’ll let you know how it goes.

Gale, a poet, novelist and publisher, also speaks at 3 p.m. Saturday at the festival on “Small Press Publishing.”