First Friday Reading Series: Robin Davidson

Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Robin Davidson.

Houston Poet Laureate Robin Davidson is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of literature and creative writing at University of Houston-Downtown. She holds a BA in French from University of Texas and MA and PhD degrees in creative writing and literature from University of Houston.

She is the author of Luminous Other (Ashland Poetry Press, 2013) which won the 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, as well as two chapbooks: City that Ripens on the Tree of the World (Calypso Editions) and Kneeling in the Dojo (Finishing Line Press). She is co-translator, with Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska, of The New Century: Poems by Ewa from the Polish (Northwestern University Press).

In 2003 – 2004 Davidson 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.

The First Friday Reading Series is Houston’s oldest open reading series, hosted by Robert Clark since 1975, usually on the first Friday of every month. It takes place at Inprint House, 1520 West Main, one block south of the Menil Collection, one block east of Mandell, in the Museum District of Houston.

It is always free and open to the public. An open reading always follows the featured poet.