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First Friday presents Stalina Villarreal

Friday March 4, 2016 8:30 pm

Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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Free and open to the public. 

StalinaInprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. On March 4, First Friday presents Stalina Villarreal.

Mexican and Chicana poet Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal is an experimental poet whose reportoire includes electronic poetry and poetry performed in conjunction with other art forms. She performs internationally and was recently a featured poet in the Public Poetry Reading Series. She is also a translator and an instructor of English at Houston Community College. She has an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Her work can be found in Papeles de Manscupia, El Vértigo de los Aires: Encuentro Iberoamericano en el Centro Histórico 2009, and Her Kind. Her visual poetry was part of the Antena Books exhibit at University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum.