Salt has a history as old as society itself. It’s as old as storytelling. It’s wealth to be shared. Preservation of food as culture. Seasoning to amplify flavor. It has a myriad of uses and importance. We seek to amplify and impact those that go unheard or less recognized or more so seem to be a particular part among parts.

Our literary arts organization and small press is a 501c3, nonprofit which houses table//FEAST Literary Magazine, bar//DRINK Reading Series, The Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan First Poetry Book Prize, The Unbroken Wheat Project, and Spices & Staples: Community Workshops.

table//FEAST Literary Magazine is an annual print publication that seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art as well as translations in the literary categories. It does not seek food themed work, but whatever it perceives as distinct and the best quality it receives to add to the dialogue of literature and art.

bar//DRINK Reading Series is a seasonal reading series at Two Headed Dog, an oasis of a bar in Midtown, where we host writers of various backgrounds and points of their writing careers to support a platform for local writers and literature. Always local. Always lit. Always including you.

The Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan First Poetry Book Prize is held in the summer in which the initial year will be 2026. Submission fee is 15 dollars and writers may submit a 60–100-page manuscript. It is specifically for poets that have yet to publish a first book. The winner receives a cash prize and a limited amount of author copies.

The Unbroken Wheat Project is where the founder works with at-risk and unhoused youth of Montrose Grace Place to create poems for expression and creation. The youth are paid 10 dollars per poem and are catalogued and preserved in an anthology. Sales from all units of the anthology provide financial support that goes back to Montrose Grace Place to help support the youth.

Spices & Staples: Community Workshops is a week-ish long series of different workshops provided to a small cohort from Houston’s community of writers for free. We provide a stipend to the instructors who lead a two-hour workshop in poetry, sometimes prose, or an experimental class.