{Poet}{Chaplain}
Feature in
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
Read Martha Serpas's poem
"Category Five"
part of Minor Design's Award-winning Installation in Houston's
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
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