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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: First Friday Poetry Reading:  Sybil Pittman Estess
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 ry_Reading_Sybil_Pittman_Estess\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-08-07\nEvent Date 
 End: 2009-08-07\n\nInprint's First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents S
 ybil Pittman Estess\, nominee for 2009-10 Poet Laureate of Texas\, reading
  from her most recent books\, Blue\, Candled in January Sun\, and Labyrint
 h.\n\nSybil Pittman Estess\, Ph.D.\, is the author of her new third poetry
  release: Labyrinth\, August\, 2007\, by Pecan Grove Press. Estess' previo
 us poetry volumes are Blue\, Candled in January Sun\, Word Tech Communicat
 ions\, 2005\; and Seeing the Desert Green\, Latitudes Press\, 1987. Sybil 
 Estess has co-authored In a Field of Words\, a creative writing textbook\,
  with Janet McCann\, Prentice Hall\, 2002\, and co-edited Elizabeth Bishop
  and Her Art\, University of Michigan Press\, 1983.\nBorn in Mississippi\,
  Sybil Estess has a B.A. degree from Baylor University\, an M.A. from the 
 University of Kentucky\, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Sybil has l
 ived in Houston for nearly 30 years. She has served as a literature paneli
 st for both the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Cultural Arts Council
  of Houston as well as on the Adult Education Council of Christ Church Epi
 scopal Cathedral. Sybil Pittman Estess was a founding organizer of the Hou
 ston Poetry Fest.\nEstess has published poems in such journals as The Texa
 s Review\, New Texas\, Concho River Review\, Borderlands\, Windhover\, She
 nandoah\, The Paris Review\, The New Republic\, Western Humanities Review 
 and Southern Poetry Review. Her literary criticism has appeared in Modern 
 Poetry Studies\, The Southern Review\, The Denver Quarterly\, The Iowa Rev
 iew\, New Texas\, Borderlands\, Manhattan Review\, The Texas Review and el
 sewhere.\nEstess has taught at the University of Houston\, the University 
 of St. Thomas\, Rice University\, Houston Community College\, Blinn Colleg
 es in Brenham and College Station\, Texas\, and for Inprint\, non-credit e
 xtension of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Houston\,
  Christ Church Cathedral\, and the C. G. Jung Center.\nShe has been a Trav
 eling Artist for Austin Writers League\, in Austin\, Texas\, and in the su
 mmers of 1995 -2002 Sybil Pittman Estess taught in 'Common Ground\,' forme
 rly a National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) Seminar in Multi-Cultural Lit
 erature for teachers.\nPoetry manuscripts of Estess' have won runner up in
  five national contests: Green Rose\, New Issues Press\; University of Mic
 higan Press\; Walt Whitman Contest\; University of North Alabama\; and Sal
 mon Run Press. They have also received Honorable Mention at the University
  of North Texas Press.\nEstess is currently working on two other books: Th
 e Red Dress (a prose memoir of growing up in Mississippi)\, and Perfect Bl
 ue (poems about Sicily\, Italy).\nInprint is proud to serve as a host for 
 the First Friday Poetry Reading Series. The First Friday Series is the old
 est 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\, who
  may be e-mailed at houstonfirstfri@aol.com . The featured poet is always 
 followed by and open mike.\n\nStart time: 8:30pm
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SUMMARY:First Friday Poetry Reading:  Sybil Pittman Estess
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