First Fridays Poetry Reading Series & Open Mic - feat. Katherine Hoerth

The August 2nd featured reader for First Fridays Reading Series is Katherine Hoerth.

Katherine Hoerth is the author of five poetry collections, including Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (Texas Review Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Summerlee Book Prize. She is the recipient of the 2021 Poetry of the Plains Prize from North Dakota State University Press for Prairie Madness (North Dakota State University Press, 2021) and the 2015 Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry in Texas for Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots (Lamar University Literary Press, 2014). Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines including Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press), Valparaiso Review, and Southwestern American Literature. She is an associate professor at Lamar University and director of Lamar University Literary Press. Her latest book, Pandora’s Prairie, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2025.

After the reading and book signing, stay for the open mic!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Inprint, 1520 West Main Street, Houston, United States