Sunset Poetry with Undercurrents: Martha Serpas

Enjoy an evening of poetry and immersive art, presented in conjunction with Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.
The night begins with a poetry reading by one of the acclaimed writers who contributed to the installation and drinks and light bites on the terrace. Then, descend into the Cistern for a unique opportunity to experience Undercurrents with the writers.
Martha Serpas, a native of Galliano, Louisiana, produced the documentary Veins in the Gulf, which addresses the state’s land loss and coastal erosion crisis. Her four volumes of poetry include Côte Blanche, The Dirty Side of the Storm, The Diener, and Double Effect. Her poems appear in anthologies focused on ecological, religious, formal, or Southern poetry. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, she has worked as a hospital chaplain, most recently as part of a psilocybin trial for patients at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. At the Tilman J. Fertitta College of Medicine, she co-directs the Scripts program, an initiative to bring creative writers and medical students together around literature and medicine. She teaches poetry writing, consciousness studies, theology, and ecopoetry in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.