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Profs to get personal at Inprint anniversary

Cougar News Services

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Inprint-Brown Reading Series, faculty members of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program will read their personal works at 7:30 p.m. April 24 in downtown Houston's Alley Theatre.

"Readings are a wonderful way for audiences to discover new writers," Mark Doty, creative writing professor and award-winning author, said in a release. "There is nothing like hearing the writer's own voice to help listeners enter into the world of a poet, novelist or non-fiction writer's work. All of these authors are members of the Houston community, so this is a chance to hear some of the most energetic and powerful writing coming out of this city right now."

The Inprint-Brown Reading Series, thanks in part to the CWP, has brought many literary giants to the Bayou City. 

For the 2005-06 season, the Inprint Series brought best-selling author Louise Edrich, innovative poets Lucie Brock-Broido and Dionisio Martinez and novelists Mary Gordon and Patricia Powell. The Inprint Series also brought Pulitzer winning author John Updike for a question-and-answer session in The Honors College before a reading at the Alley Theatre.

Faculty members set to read at the April 24 reading include, but are not limited to: fiction writer and poet Chitra Divakaruni, author of The Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams; poet and memoirist Mark Doty, author of School of the Arts and Firebird; poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and Blind Huber; poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me and Donkey Gospel; poet Claudia Rankine, author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely and Plot; and fiction writer Daniel Stern, author of A Little Street Music and Twice Told Tales.

Founded in 1983 by a group of local volunteers and writers from the University, the Inprint Series is a non-profit organization set out to hone and pursue creative writing and reading in the Houston area.

Other programs that the Inprint Series is involved with include: "Inprint Writers Workshops," workshops to help writers with their work before publication; "Marathon Readings" of literary works including The Inferno and Ulysses; "Teachers as Writers" workshops that help K-12 teachers from Houston-area schools sharpen their writing skills; and national literary magazine Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts is underwritten in part with the Inprint Series.

The April 24 reading is $5 for the public, but students and senior citizens get in free. For more information on the Inprint-Brown Reading Series, visit www.inprint-inc.org. For details on UH's CWP, visit www.class.uh.edu/cwp/.

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