Hi Jeff!
Oh! I feel your pain. Unfortunately, I'm about a ten hours south of you... (yeah, Texas is that enormous).
Where I'm at in Deep South Texas, we have a pretty humble and friendly poetry community. It's mostly free versers, we've got a handful of slammers, and a lot of poets who write in Spanish. I'm the metrical weirdo in the mix! But, you know, even so, it feels really nice to be a part of a face to face poetry community. While I wish there were more formalists 'round these parts for workshop and such, being the odd ducky isn't so bad. Anyway, I like to think we have much more in common than we do differences.
In Dallas -- there's a DPC, no? Dallas Poets Community? I've heard of them, have a few acquaintances involved in it... don't know how metrical they are though.
By the way, I'm coming up to Dallas to read/give workshop/sign books sometime this summer
. Don't know the details just yet. I've never read at a Dallas venue before, so I'm a bit nervous!
Good luck, Jeff!
K.