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Feature in

Delta Poetry Review

Summer 2024

 

Multi-book Review
by Stephen Furlong

Interview
with Susan Swartwout

Visit the site of

Mitoloji Latannyèr/
Mythologies Louisianaises

an art installation

at the Capitol Park Museum

Baton Rouge, LA

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

Poetry as Psychedelic Facilitation

 

Workshops by Ketamine Journeys

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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 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

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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

Installation

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

 

2023

Calendar

2024

 

NOVEMBER 7

Brazos Bookstore

2421 Bissonet

Houston, TX

6:30 pm

OCTOBER 22

with Josh Gottlieb-Miller and

Anthony Sutton

Basket Books and Art

115 Hyde

Houston, TX

6:30 pm

OCTOBER 10

Bookwoman

Austin, TX

onsite/online

https://ebookwoman.com/upcoming-events

7:15 pm

MARCH 21, 2024

Poems to Navigate Home

New Orleans Poetry Festival

FEBRUARY 25

The Domino

3044 St. CLaude

New Orleans

6:00 pm

FEBRUARY 8

University of Scranton

"Ecotheologcial Longing 

and its Double Effect"

TDC 407

6:00 pm

2023-24

 

OCTOBER 21, 2023—DECEMBER 1, 2024

Mitoloji Latannyèr / Mythologies Louisianaises Installation

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. 

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