LITERATURE + LECTURES

Inprint's First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Robin Davidson, UHD Creative Writing Dept., Friday, April 1.

Born in Trieste, Italy, to American parents, Dr. Davidson is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of Literature and creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown. She holds a B.A. in French from the University of Texas at Austin, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. In 2003-4 she served as Fulbright professor of American literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Her poems and translations have appeared in such American literary journals as AGNI, The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Tampa Review, 91st Meridian, Literary Imagination, and Words Without Borders. She is the recipient of a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. Her translations from the Polish, The New Century: Poems by Ewa Lipska, appeared from Northwestern University Press in fall 2009.

She currently serves as the faculty advisor for UHD’s literary and visual arts magazine, The Bayou Review, and as president of the board of directors for the Writers in the Schools program. She is the recipient of a 2009 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant for her poetry.

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 at Inprint House, 1520 West Main,  one block south of the Menil Collection, one block east of Mandell, in the Museum District of Houston, 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.