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.

February’s featured reader will be Tamara Nicholl-Smith. Tamara Nicholl-Smith’s poetry has appeared in multiple publications, including America magazine, the Kyoto Journal, Ekstasis, Catholic Arts Today, and The Examined Life Journal. She also has poetry in two Mutabilis Press anthologies: Enchantment of the Ordinary and Chaos Dive Reunion. A former slam poet, Tamara was the first woman ever to win Albuquerque’s city poetry slam championship. She served on two Albuquerque slam teams before returning to her Houston hometown to coach Houston’s 2002 slam team all the way to the national semi-finals. Tamara has had her poems on two Albuquerque bus panels and a parking meter, the latter as part of a civic art program she founded to put art and poetry on city parking meters. Its title: “The Rhyme and Meter Project.” She recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston. She enjoys puns and likes her bourbon neat.

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