Free and open to the public

Inprint is proud to serve as the host for the First Fridays Reading Series. The First Fridays Reading Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and was organized by Robert Clark from 1975-2019. Today, First Fridays are curated and hosted by local community members.

Readings are held on the first Friday of each month. The program will include a featured reader, followed by an open mic.

August’s featured reader will be Katherine Hoerth.

Katherine Hoerth is the author of five poetry collections, including Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (Texas Review Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Summerlee Book Prize. She is the recipient of the 2021 Poetry of the Plains Prize from North Dakota State University Press for Prairie Madness (North Dakota State University Press, 2021) and the 2015 Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry in Texas for Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots (Lamar University Literary Press, 2014). Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines including Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press), Valparaiso Review, and Southwestern American Literature. She is an associate professor at Lamar University and director of Lamar University Literary Press. Her latest book, Pandora’s Prairie, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2025.

To learn more about August’s reading visit Facebook or Eventbrite.

For more information about the First Fridays Reading Series, click here. To join the First Fridays Facebook group, click here.

Readings are held on the first Friday of each month. The program will include a featured reader, followed by an open mic.