Prose & Pours Grand Prairie

06/11/2026

I love a little R&D--rob and duplicate and make it your own. This is an idea I saw another vendor do. Any guesses?

06/10/2026

06/06/2026

Thank you to all who stopped by our booth and welcome to our new followers! We are grateful you are here and can't wait to build the bookstore for you.

06/04/2026

Dad impossible to shop for? 🎁

Let us take the guesswork off your plate—grab him a Blind Date with a Book! We've matched up mysteries, thrillers, and a little non-fiction for dear ol' Dad. And hey—if he doesn't love it, blame us. You had no idea what was inside that wrapper. 😉

See you at the Grand Prairie Farmers Market on Saturday!

06/03/2026

06/01/2026

June means a lot of things to a lot of people.

For us it means this: five writers who changed what literature looks like and what it's allowed to say. Five books that belong on every shelf, in every city, in every bookstore and library.

Prose & Pours plans to carry all of them.

James Baldwin wrote Giovanni's Room in 1956 and it still reads like it was written for right now. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is a graphic memoir that will make you call someone you love when you finish it. Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House does things with structure and language that most writers spend their whole careers trying to figure out. Aiden Thomas gave us Cemetery Boys, a story with a gay Latino lead that feels like it was written specifically for the reader who has never quite seen themselves in a fantasy before. And Torrey Peters wrote Detransition, Baby, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and deserved every word of that recognition.

These are not niche books. They are not books for a specific kind of reader. They are just very good books written by very talented people who happen to be LGBTQ+.

That's the whole point of a bookstore. Every voice. Every shelf. Every reader.

Grand Prairie deserves that. We're building it.

Which of these five is already on your shelf? And which one should we wrap up as a Blind Date with a Book this weekend? Tell us below.

Come find us at the Grand Prairie Farmer's Market. We'll be the ones surrounded by books.

05/30/2026

Such a beautifully written book about a time when water is scarce and people have to survive.

05/28/2026

Been thinking about this one all week.

There's a certain kind of line that stops you mid-page. Not because it's dramatic or because something big just happened in the story. Just because someone put words together in a way that makes you feel seen by a person you've never met.

Avery Flynn slipped this one into The Schemer like it was nothing. One line in the middle of a story that stops you completely and makes you put the book down for a minute just to sit with it. That's the thing about Flynn. You think you're reading a romance and then suddenly you're having a feeling you didn't budget for.

That quiet is what this quote is about.

You can't hold a story the way you hold a cup or a glass. You can't keep it the way you keep a photograph. You read it, and it changes something in you, and then it moves on to the next person who needs it. The book stays on the shelf but what it did to you stays with you.

That's why we're building Prose and Pours. Not to sell objects, though we will absolutely sell you a beautiful book and a good glass of wine to go with it. But to create a place where that quiet happens. Where someone pulls something off a shelf, or reads the first page standing up and decides they're not leaving without it.

Art does that. Love does that. A really good book does that.

We can't wait to share that feeling with Grand Prairie.

What's a book that changed something in you and then let you go? Tell us below. We genuinely want to know.

The Schemer is going on the shelf. Come find us at the Grand Prairie Farmer's Market next weekend. Bring your open heart.

05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we are raising a glass and turning the page on stories of service and sacrifice.

05/24/2026

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