First Friday Reading Series: Michael Lieberman

Inprint’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Michael Lieberman.

FROM THE POET: “Raised in Pittsburgh, PA, I have lived and worked in Houston, TX for more than twenty-five years, first as chair of the Department of Pathology at Baylor College of Medicine and later as the President/CEO of the Houston Methodist Research Institute. I have always written, but leaving medicine in 2010, I have written full time. While working as a research physician, I published five volumes of poetry. Over the past 25 years I have published seven books of poems and three novels.

“My most recent book, “The Houstiliad, An Iliad for Houston,” is a book-length poem in which I appropriate Homer’s characters, re-imagine them, and set them in conflict in today’s Houston (Texas Review Press, Huntsville, TX, fall 2015).

“Over the years I have taught poetry workshops for Inprint, a Houston literary arts organization, and literature at the Jung Center of Houston and independently. I am a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, the Inprint Advisory Board and the Jung Center Board.”

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.