April 2023
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Poetry 2023-202/In-Person
This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House. Poetry, for me, has always been about becoming a vessel. You do not happen to poetry so much as it happens to you. That’s what makes it meaningful. That’s what makes it beautiful. It is a craft that takes complete personal involvement and cultivation. It is a gift to be able to walk amongst the world and to listen to it. It is even more of a gift to…
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First Fridays presents Marlon Lizama
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. For more information about the First Fridays…
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Inprint Mircea Cărtărescu Reading
Free and open to the public Presented with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute Inprint and Deep Vellum invite you to an intimate evening with acclaimed Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. Cărtărescu will read from his latest novel Solenoid, followed by a conversation with Rice University faculty member Andrea Bajani. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. Discounted books will be available to Inprint patrons for purchase through Brazos Bookstore. Mircea Cărtărescu is a writer, professor, and journalist…
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Escritores en la casa: Rodrigo Fuentes
Como parte de la serie Escritores en la casa, les invitamos a una noche de lectura el 14 de abril a las 7:30 pm con el autor guatemalteco Rodrigo Fuentes en conversación con Rose Mary Salum. La lectura es gratis y abierta al público y los libros del autor estarán a la venta durante el evento. Rodrigo Fuentes (1984) es autor de Trucha panza arriba, una colección de cuentos publicada en Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia y El Salvador, y traducida al francés y al inglés.…
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Creative Nonfiction 2023-203/In-Person
This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House. PIn this weekend intensive, students will learn the fundamentals of creative nonfiction writing. Studying and experimenting with a wide variety of forms, students will mine daily life and personal perspectives to write compelling narratives. We will discuss the work of a range of established and emerging contemporary nonfiction writers and will aim for the following learning outcomes: To cultivate an understanding and practice of basic creative nonfiction writing techniques…
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The Joy of Revision 2023-205/In-Person
This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House. I am a firm believer in the fruition of honing one’s craft. Our literary heroes are not so because they were born with gifts inaccessible to the rest of us; they are literary beasts because they do the work of revision. Poet Donald Hall once said that the greatest pleasure in writing is rewriting. Now, I can’t always agree that revision is pleasurable, but it certainly is necessary, and…
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