BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading and Open Mic featuring Martha Serpas

BookWoman Second Thursday Poetry is delighted to welcome feature Martha Serpas in-store (5501 N. Lamar #A-105) for this fully hybrid in-store / Zoom event on Thursday, October 10 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CDT. Cindy Huyser hosts; an open mic follows.

Martha Serpas has written four volumes of poetry, including The Dirty Side of the Storm and most recently Double Effect. A native of Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary about land loss in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary. She teaches at the University of Houston and co-directs Scripts, the narrative and lyric health program at UH’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. She is a hospital trauma chaplain and a recent graduate of the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics’ psychedelic facilitation program.

If you're joining us in-person, please be sure to bring your mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining via Zoom, be sure to register via Eventbrite and to log into Zoom with your email and password prior to accessing the event.

Contact BookWoman to order your copy of Double Effect and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com.

Host or Publisher Cindy Huyser