The popular Inprint Poetry Buskers, many of whom are graduate students and alumni from the nationally renowned UH Creative Writing Program will be on hand at the 12^th Annual Empty Bowls Houston writing poems for free and on demand from 11 am – 2 pm. These talented poets, using a typewriter and themes specified by attendees, tap into the muse of immediate inspiration and write poems on the spot at festivals and special events throughout the city. Stop by the Inprint table, see the Inprint Poetry Buskers in action, and get your very own poem which you can cherish forever.

Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and towns across the country to feed the hungry in their communities. Empty Bowls Houston is implemented locally by Houston-area ceramists and artists working in various media, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Houston Food Bank. For more information click here.

Empty Bowls
by Kristi Beer, Inprint Poetry Busker

 

There is a beauty in an empty bowl
full of promises to come,

 

the shape nurtured by the artist’s hands
like a mother swaddling her baby

 

the smooth hardness a reminder of the fire
the base an anchor in the storm.

 

There is a beauty in an empty bowl
multiplied by the hundreds here

 

where people have gathered
to eat soup together and remember that

 

there is a beauty in an empty bowl
except to those with empty stomachs.