Voices and Verses
National Poetry Month: “This Side Up” By Outspoken Bean
Posted on · The Houston poet reads a poem inspired by a daring escape to freedom.
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National Poetry Month: “Hippocampus, Or If I Were A Boy” By Matty Layne Glasgow
Posted on · The Houston poet reads a poem inspired by seahorses.
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‘Aguacero’ By Houston Poet Lupe Mendez
Posted on · The Houston poet reads a poem set in the aftermath of Harvey.
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Houston Poet Martha Serpas On ‘Insufficient, Ineligible Loss’
Posted on · The Houston poet reads a poem inspired by a FEMA designation.
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Houston Poet Varsha Saraiya-Shah
Posted on · In the fourth installment of the 2017 edition of Houston Public Media’s poetry series Voices and Verses, produced by Catherine Lu, we meet Houston poet Varsha Saraiya-Shah, and she reads her poem called, “For a Man With One Earring,” which was inspired by a moment in traffic on the 610 Loop. Varsha Saraiya-Shah’s chapbook of poetry, […]
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Houston Poet Conor Bracken
Posted on · We meet Conor Bracken. Originally from Virginia, Bracken teaches and writes in Houston. His work has been published in — or forthcoming from — Handsome, the minnesota review, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, and Thrush Poetry Journal, among others. He’s held numerous jobs — including as an English tutor, a software tester and a food truck fry cook […]
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Houston Poet Conor Bracken
Posted on · We meet Conor Bracken. Originally from Virginia, Bracken teaches and writes in Houston. His work has been published in — or forthcoming from — Handsome, the minnesota review, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, and Thrush Poetry Journal, among others. He’s held numerous jobs — including as an English tutor, a software tester and a food truck fry cook […]
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Houston Poet Bruno Rios
Posted on · We meet Bruno Ríos. He’s a poet, novelist, translator and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Houston. His academic and creative work has been published in numerous magazines and journals in the United States, Mexico and several countries in Latin America. Specialized in contemporary Mexican literature, his academic work explores […]
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Houston: The Sweatiest City in America
Posted on · Sara Cress is a Houston-based poet who looks to the news and current events in Houston for her source material…including the thermometer. She talks about her poem, The Sweatiest City in America, inspired by the Houston heat and humidity — then she reads it for us.
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Houston Poet Conor Bracken
Posted on · April is the 20th annual National Poetry Month. In conjunction, each Monday this month we’re meeting Houston-based poets. On this edition, we meet Conor Bracken. Originally from Virginia, Bracken teaches and writes in Houston. His work has been published in — or forthcoming from — Handsome, the minnesota review, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, and Thrush Poetry Journal, among […]
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Houston Poet Bruno Rios
Posted on · April is the 20th annual National Poetry Month. In conjunction, each Monday this month we’ll meet Houston-based poets. On this edition, we meet Bruno Ríos. He’s a poet, novelist, translator and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Houston. His academic and creative work has been published in numerous magazines and journals […]
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Houston Poet Choonwha Moon
Posted on · April is the 20th annual National Poetry Month. In conjunction, each Monday this month we’ll meet Houston-based poets. On this edition, we meet Choonwha Moon. MORE: National Poetry Month: Sound Portrait Of Poet Choonwha Moon (Houston Public Media, April 5, 2016)
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Houston Poet André de Korvin Mixes Whimsy and the Serious
Posted on · As a young man, his first poem was written in French to impress the girls. But, since then, Houstonian André de Korvin has written poetry in English, and often about much more serious subjects — such as the social upheaval and political turmoil heâs witnessed during his life. He was born in Berlin to Russian […]
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Houston and Texas As Literary Inspiration
Posted on · Poet Ange Mlinko acknowledges that the east coast is the epicenter of the American literary world. However, the author and professor at the University of Houston’s esteemed Graduate Program in Creative Writing says Texas and Houston are fertile ground for literary inspiration. The Lone Star State and the Bayou City have inspired some of Mlinko’s work. […]