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 Courtney will be Sandi K. Johnson. Sandi is a naturalized citizen who was born in Liberia, where she survived its civil war. A cross-genre writer who holds a BA and MA in Creative Writing from Mount Mary University, Sandi has been an English professor for 15 years in Houston, TX. Her work has been published by the National Book Foundation, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Watershed Journal. Her awards include the 2009 Solstice Institute for Diverse Voices Prize and the 2021 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, and she is a current student in Carlow University’s low residency MFA program in Poetry.

In Sandi’s words, “My mission and inspiration for writing/poetry and being part of a writing community stem from the dire need to give a helping hand to anyone who has a little voice inside that has been stifled for any reason or transformed into someone else’s story. I became a teacher…to exhibit practices and channels toward authentic voices of people in their communities.”

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