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The Means of Healing:
A Conversation
with Martha Serpas
Image: A Journal of Art and Religion
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
Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
graduates its first class in
Psychedelic Facilitation
Essay coming on poetry and nonordinary
states of consciousness

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 Diener, Ghost Trees, and Reliquary. Since 2006 she has worked as a trauma chaplain at Tampa General Hospital and, most recently, as a psychedelic chaplain with Ketamine Journeys. 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
News
Minor Design's Award-winning
Bayou Greenways Park
Double Effect
NY Times Op-Ed
a Swamp"
NY Times Op-Ed
"Our Life,
Between Sea and Soil"
NPR Podcast
Interview
Links
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
2023
Calendar

2024
FEBRUARY 8
University of Scranton
TBD
FEBRUARY 25
New Orleans
TBD
2023
OCTOBER 21
Mitoloji Latannyèr / Mythologies Louisianaises
Capitol Museum
Baton Rouge, LA
Michelle Antoinette Nicholson, New Orleans Review
Double Effect’s intimacy and universality combine with elements of local color to convey a spiritual witness and conciliation concerned as much with individual identity as it does with exploring spiritual quandaries and the workings of logic and language.

