Free and open to the public

Doors @ 7 pm
Pop-up poet @ 7:30 pm
Featured poet @ 7:40 pm
Open mic @ 8:15 pm

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 events are curated and hosted by local community members.

The August featured reader will be Tina Cardona, a community maker for Houston poets as a co-founder of hotpoet.org. She is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, earth advocate, dog guardian, soothsayer, mother and partner, and is also in a long-standing, conflictual relationship with poetry. You can find her wandering at dawn and at dusk muttering with trees.

The opening pop-up poet will be Michael J. Galko, a retired scientist and active poet from Houston. He is the artist responsible for ‘haiku house’, a residential art installation consisting of hundreds of original wood-burned and painted haiku. He was a finalist in the 2020 Naugatuck River Review and the 2022 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contests. Recent poems appear in Spillway Magazine, Atlanta Review, Silk Road Review, and Plainsongs, among other journals.

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