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.

This month’s featured reader will be Emily Bludworth de Barrios, whose recent books include Rich Wife (University of Wisconsin 2025), recipient of the Four Lakes Prize, and Shopping or The End of Time (University of Wisconsin 2022), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, The Poetry Review, and Oxford Poetry. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and The College of William & Mary. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and now lives in Houston, Texas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

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