August 2015
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Word Around Town comes to Inprint
On Sunday August 2, 2015, the 10th anniversary season of Houston’s widely celebrated Word Around Town (WAT?!) Poetry Tour begins. The tour features seven nights of straight poetry in seven different venues across the city. The tour will feature 16 of Houston’s top poets and a select nightly feature. WAT?! takes place at Inprint House on Tuesday, August 2nd. Featured poets in this year’s tour include Kool B, Brother Said, Chris Crawford, Gerald Cedillo, Deep, Corina Delgado, Winston Derden, Marlon Lizama, Tracy…
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First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Mary and Chuck Wemple
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. On Friday August 7, First Friday presents Mary and Chuck Wemple. Chuck Wemple is a scientist and poet currently living and working in Houston…
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Inprint Book Club: Jonathan Franzen’s Purity
The Inprint Book Club will discuss Purity by Jonathan Franzen, who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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Speak!Poet with Chris Wise and Anis Shivani
Speak!Poet is the innovative poetry series that presents a moderated discussion with the poets on their work and its processes. The discussion includes audience participation. Speak!Poet is moderated by Winston Derden, who co-produces the event with Stephen Gros. Chris Wise is a poet and novelist. He has been published in various poetry anthologies and small press literary magazines such as Nerve Cowboy, Blue Collar Review, and Road Not Taken. He has been a featured author in Cowboys and Indians Magazine. His book Colliding With Orion (a collection of…
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First Fridays presents Jane Creighton
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic On Friday, November 6, First Friday presents Jane Creighton. Jane Creighton is…
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Inprint Book Club : Sandra Cisneros’ A House of My Own
The Inprint Book Club will discuss A House of My Own by Sandra Cisneros, who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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First Friday presents Choonwha Moon
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. On Friday, December 4, First Friday presents poet Choonwha Moon. To learn…
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First Friday presents Elina Petrova
Free and open to the public. Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic On Friday, January 8, First Friday presents Elina Petrova. Elina has numerous Russian…
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Inprint Book Club: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nights
The Inprint Book Club will discuss Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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Inprint Book Club: All the Light We Cannot See
The Inprint Book Club will discuss All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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First Friday presents Stalina Villarreal
Free and open to the public. Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. On March 4, First Friday presents Stalina Villarreal. Mexican and Chicana poet Stalina…
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Inprint Book Club: Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light
The Inprint Book Club will discuss Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith, who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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Inprint Book Club: Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
The Inprint Book Club will discuss What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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First Friday presents Jasminne & Lupe Mendez
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. On May 6, First Friday presents Jasminne Mendez and Lupe Mendez. Jasminne Mendez is…
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Inprint Book Club: Mat Johnson’s Loving Day
The Inprint Book Club will discuss Loving Day by Mat Johnson, who appears as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
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First Friday presents Terry Jude Miller
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. On June 3, First Friday presents Terry Jude Miller. Miller is winner of…
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Inprint Book Club: Selected poems from Sharon Olds and Tony Hoagland
The Inprint Book Club will discuss selected poems (listed below) by Sharon Olds and Tony Hoagland, who were scheduled to appear as part of the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. The following poems from Sharon Olds’ collection Stag’s Leap will be discussed: Crazy, Discandied, The Healers, Known to Be Left, Stag’s Leap, Material Ode, Poem for the Breasts, Tiny Siren, On Reading a Newspaper for the First Time as an…
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First Friday presents Stella Brice
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. For the 41st celebration of the series, First Friday will feature a…
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Speak!Poet presents John Gorman & Choonwha Moon
Free and open to the public Speak!Poet is the innovative poetry reading and discussion series that explores an exchange of ideas and practical learning between working poets. Each event pairs two well-known Houston poets who present and discuss their work in an interview format. The reading and interview are followed by a Q&A with the audience. Speak!Poet is produced by Stephen Gros, who emcees the events, and by Winston Derden, who moderates the discussion with poets and audience. John Gorman…
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Tintero Projects presents Raina J. León & Malcolm Friend
FREE Tintero Projects/Proyectos Tintero presents a reading by Raina J. León and Malcolm Friend. For more information click here. Raina J. León, Macondo fellow, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006), CantoMundo fellow, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been published in three collections of poetry: Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman, Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate. She is founding editor of The Acentos Review,…
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First Friday presents Robin Davidson
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. First Friday presents Robin Davidson, Houston Poet Laureate and translator, reading from her…
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EVENT CANCELLED: Poetry of the City, A talk by Alicia Ostriker
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. The University of Houston Creative Writing Program, in association with Inprint, presents a talk by poet/scholar Alicia Ostriker entitled The Poetry of the City. Ostriker is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections and a number of scholarly works. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and has been nominated for the National Book Award. Joyce Carol Oates writes that Ostriker is…
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Inprint Writing Cafe
Write with fellow writers in a pleasant space, the first Friday of the month, from 9 am to 12 pm We will open our doors from 9 am to 12 pm on the first Friday of the month and transform our room for workshops/meetings/readings into a writing cafe. Any and all writers looking for a pleasant morning space in which to write are welcome. Enjoy the presence of other creative spirits in the lovely Menil neighborhood. We ask Inprint Writing…
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Inprint Book Club: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am
The Inprint Book Club will discuss Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, who appears as part of the 2016/2017 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more info about the Inprint Book Club, click here.
Find out more »November 2016
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Inprint Writing Cafe
Write with fellow writers in a pleasant space, the first Friday of the month, from 9 am to 12 pm We will open our doors from 9 am to 12 pm on the first Friday of the month and transform our room for workshops/meetings/readings into a writing cafe. Any and all writers looking for a pleasant morning space in which to write are welcome. Enjoy the presence of other creative spirits in the lovely Menil neighborhood. We ask Inprint Writing…
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First Friday Reading with Michael Lieberman
Free and open to the public Inprint is proud to serve as a host for the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the oldest poetry series in Houston and has been held monthly on the first Friday of each month since 1975. The series is coordinated by Robert Clark, not by Inprint. Each reading begins with a featured poet, followed by an open mic. First Friday presents Houston writer Michael Lieberman on November 4, 2016, reading…
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