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On April 1998, Arts and Letters Live concluded its 1998 Texas Bound series with a program entitled "Rediscovering Katherine Anne Porter" held at the Dallas Museum of Art. The program featured readings by Undermain Theatre co-founder Katherine Owens, a video interview with playwright Horton Foote, and a panel discussion with Vivian May of Texas Women's University and Laurin Porter of the University of Texas at Arlington. The featured speaker of the evening was Don Graham, the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Graham's talk "reclaimed" Porter as a Texas writer drawing on Porter's biography and correspondence as well as on his wide knowledge of Texas writing.

To celebrate the selection of Katherine Anne Porter as the featured writer for Texas Writers Month, May 1998, Barnes & Noble sponsored a program in her honor at their Westlake Branch in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, May 5. Liz Carpenter reminisced about interviewing Porter during her days in Washington and read selected passages from Porter's wry account of the Kennedy inauguration. Janis Stout, Dean of Faculties at Texas A & M University, spoke about Porter's involvement in the history of her time, especially during her years in Mexico. Don Graham, J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, addressed Porter's ambivalence about feminist issues. A lively question-and-answer session followed. The store featured a display of works by and about Porter, including Stout's Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times. An exhibit fabricated for the University of Maryland Libraries' 1991 Porter Symposium in College Park, Maryland, was also displayed.