Free and open to the public

Doors @ 7 pm
Reading @ 7:30 pm
Followed by an Open mic

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 October featured reader will be Toni Holland, who will read from Nude, her poetry collection of 75 hues that intersects color theory, ekphrasis, and literary midrash. She will read orange and red hue poems drawn from Wittgenstein, Lucretius, Dante, Matisse, and Plautus. She will also introduce her new collection, Zumbrota, which is forthcoming in Norwegian American Studies from the University of Minnesota Press as a poetics statement accompanied by a few poems.

Holland’s work is published or forthcoming in Image Journal, Puerto del Sol, Grist, Literary Matters, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Poetry International, Common Ground Review, and Solstice Literary Magazine, among others. Her awards include the Academy of American Poets University Award (first runner-up), University Scholar, and a Fulbright.

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