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The Means of Healing: A Conversation

with Martha Serpas

 

Image: A Journal of Art and Religion

 

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Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

graduates its first class in

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Psychedelic Facilitation

Essay coming on poetry and nonordinary

states of consciousnes

Read Martha Serpas's poem

"Category Five"

part of Minor Design's Award-winning Installation in Houston's

 

 

Visit the site of Mitoloji Latannyèr/ Mythologies Louisianaises

an art installation

at the Capitol Park Museum

Baton Rouge, LA

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BIOGRAPHY

Martha Serpas

is the author of four collections of poetry, Double Effect (LSU); The Diener (LSU); The Dirty Side of the Storm (Norton); and Côte Blanche (New Issues). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, as well as in a number of anthologies, including the Library of America’s American Religious Poem and The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard). She holds degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State, New York University, and the University of Houston, and a master of divinity from Yale Divinity School. A native of south Louisiana, she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary about efforts to save Louisiana's disappearing wetlands. With Michele Burgess, she has collaborated on three artists’ books, The DienerGhost Trees, and Reliquary. Since 2006 she has worked as a trauma chaplain at Tampa General Hospital. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Houston.

Review of Double Effect by M.A. Nicholson

New Orleans Review

Review of Double Effect by Andrea Syzdek

Against the Grain

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Double Effect

LSU Press, 2020

Framed by Aquinas’s Doctrine of Double Effect, these poems consider the sometimes inextricable nature of good and evil, new life and loss, within the Cajun language, culture, and landscape of the imperiled Louisiana coast. Maternal deprivation, mania, and environmental destruction exemplify the saving possibilities of paradox.

News

Minor Design's Award-winning

Bayou Greenways Park

Installtion

Double Effect

LSU Press
 

NY Times Op-Ed

"Stop Calling Washington

a Swamp"


NY Times Op-Ed
"Our Life,
Between Sea and Soil"
 

NPR Podcast
Interview

Links

Brighton Press

Collaborations with Michele Burgess

En/Gulf: Ecopoetics 
at Brazos Bookstore

 

Veins in the Gulf
Documentary
about Louisiana's
disappearing wetlands

 

Losing Ground
Educational website
about coastal erosion

 

2019-2021

Calendar

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2021

 

JUNE 1

LSU REMOTE AUTHORS SERIES

2 PM

2020

SEPTEMBER 22

DOUBLE EFFECT Zoom Launch

Brazos Bookstore 

7:00 pm

Click here for the recording!

OCTOBER 31

LA Poet Laureate

Presents/Featured Reader

LA Book Festival

Baton Rouge, LA

NOVEMBER 20

Evening with Honors Presents:

Houston Voices

Open Zoom Event

5:00 pm
 

2019

JANUARY 25

Texas Campaign for the Environment

Mongoose Versus Cobra

7:30 pm

FEBRUARY 21

Post-Harvey Talk

Rice Humanities Research Center

5 pm

MARCH 18

Dirty Side of the Storm

Reading with Paul Otremba

James Turrell Sky Space

5 PM

MARCH 26

Lone Star--Cy Fair

Open Dialogue

Reading

7 pm​

MAY 27-JUNE 1

Unamuno Authors Series

Madrid

OCTOBER 8

Reading

Vanderbilt University

NOVEMBER 2

Walt Whitman 200th

LA Book Festival

State Capital

Baton Rouge, LA

2:15 pm

NOVEMBER 13

Poetry and Prose

Ecopoetics

University of Houston

5:30 pm

PAUL PICKERING, Fogged Clarity

“Her poems present
a consciousness struggling to make meaning
from the chaotic and overwhelming flux
of day-to-day experience –
both the mundane and the momentous.”

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