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SUMMARY:First Fridays presents Anthony Sutton
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nInprint 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. \nReadings are held on the first Friday of each month. The program will include a featured reader\, followed by an open mic. \nFor more information about the First Fridays Reading Series\, click here. To join the First Fridays Facebook group\, click here. \nANTHONY SUTTON resides on former Akokiksas\, Atakapa\, Karankawa\, and Sana land (currently named Houston\, Texas)\, as an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor fellow at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing and Literature PhD program and teaches in the community for Grackle and Grackle. Anthony’s 2023 book of poetry\, PARTICLES OF A STRANGER LIGHT\, published by Veliz Books\, employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory\, identity\, culture\, and history.  A recipient of a United States of Writing grant from Poets and Writers\, Anthony’s poetry and criticism has appeared in guesthouse\, Gulf Coast\, Grist\, The Journal\, Prairie Schooner\, Puerto del Sol\, Oversound\, Quarter After Eight\, Southern Indiana Review\, Zone 3\, and elsewhere. \n“A Small God Carrying Endless Light”\nby Anthony Sutton \n\nEven after dedicating my life\nagainst prayer\, never having\nwritten the word prayer\, getting \nself-conscious upon hearing\nmention of prayer\, I know\nif I had a god to pray to \nit would be the light fixture\nin the jail cell I spent most\nof a day in. It sat behind \ntextured glass\, imitating sunlight.\nAt 2 am I thought it resembled\ndaybreak. By 2 pm\, my cellmate \nbelieved he was watching an overcast\nmorning. Now\, I bow to it\,\nto study its changes in color \nto understand the changes\nin myself. I should consider\nits correlatives with Dante. \nWhat of the other sky behind it?\nIs the universe organized\nby relative distance from the light? \nThen\, I would abandon Dante.\nThen\, I would study the god\nfor itself. Is its light cast \nfrom a lantern or from the god’s\nmind? When I learn\nthe answer I will abandon \nthe material world and enter\na field on the other side\nof the glass\, one implied by the light \n(where true believers go). I’m sure\,\nat some point today\, someone sang\nGod Bless America. I want \nto ask them if they really believe\nthat a nation’s legitimacy\ndepends on its being \nthe expression of a god. If\nmy god’s light is unending\nbecause the god is fed \nby corporations and taxpayers.\nMany of whom live nowhere\nnear this jail\, but \nmany have driven by. \n\n
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LOCATION:Inprint House\, 1520 W Main St\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
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