Martha Serpas
Professor
- Phone: 713 743 2942
- Email: mserpas@uh.edu
- Office: Roy Cullen Building
Martha Serpas is the author of three collections of poetry, C么te Blanche (New Issues, 2002); The Dirty Side of the Storm (W.W. Norton, 2007); and The Diener (LSU Press, February 2015). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, as well as in a number of anthologizes, including the Library of America鈥檚 American Religious Poems. She has taught at Yale Divinity School and the University of Tampa, where she served as poetry editor of Tampa Review. A native of south Louisiana, she remains involved in efforts to restore Louisiana鈥檚 wetlands. Since 2006 she has worked as a trauma hospital chaplain.
Education
- BA - Louisiana State University, English
- MA - New York University, English concentration in Creative Writing
- MDIV - Yale Divinity School
- PhD - 兔子先生, Literature and Creative Writing
Selected Publications
Books
- The Dirty Side of the Storm. W. W. Norton. 2007.
- C么te Blanche. Fwd. Harold Bloom. New Issues Poetry and Prose. Western Michigan UP. 2002.
Periodicals and Anthologies
- 鈥淎s If There Were Only One.鈥� The Best of Image. Eerdsman. (forthcoming)
- 鈥淎unt Kate Considers the Family Tomb鈥� and 鈥淚nsufficient, Ineligible Loss.鈥� Christianity and Literature. (forthcoming)
- 鈥淧补谤补诲颈蝉,鈥� 鈥淓pithalamia,鈥� and 鈥淣ow Hill.鈥� Relief: A Journal of Christian Expression. 2.3 (Fall 2008).
- 鈥淭he Pomegranate.鈥� Verse Daily. www.versedaily.com. June 22, 2008.
- 鈥淐onveyance鈥� and 鈥淭he Dirty Side of the Storm.鈥� Poetry Daily. www.poetrydaily.org. May 26, 2008.
- 鈥淭he Diener.鈥� The New Yorker. April 7, 2008.
- 鈥淭丑别谤别.鈥� Journal of The Liturgical Conference. Liturgy: New and Borrowed Rites. 23.1 (2008).
- 鈥淎 Chaplet for Lana.鈥� Prism. Fall 2007.
- 鈥淥ld River.鈥� (nonfiction) Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. (Number 55). Fall 2007.
- 鈥淟ying in the Middle of the Field.鈥� The Nation. April 2007.
- 鈥淔ormica鈥� and 鈥淢illennial Birthday.鈥� 2RiverView 10.2 (Winter 2006).
- 鈥淎s If There Were Only One,鈥� 鈥淲itness Tree,鈥� 鈥淧oem Found,鈥� and 鈥淧salm at High Tide.鈥�
- Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba (eds.) American Religious Poems. NY: Library of America. (October 2006).
- 鈥淭he Boat Shed,鈥� 鈥淎 Future With Hope,鈥� and 鈥淣o-Name Storm.鈥� The Connecticut Review. Winter 2006.
- 鈥淩eburial at Sea,鈥� 鈥淭he Dirty Side of the Storm,鈥� and 鈥淐reation.鈥� Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. 32.4 (Winter 2005).
- 鈥淧oem Found.鈥� The Christian Century. November 1, 2005.
- 鈥淧salm at High Tide,鈥� 鈥淭he Water,鈥� and 鈥淎 Corollary.鈥� The New Yorker. September 12, 2005.
- 鈥淭he Discipline of Non-Fulfillment,鈥� 鈥淏ayou Lafourche,鈥� 鈥淪unrise,鈥� and 鈥淗ard Rain.鈥�
Passages North. 26.1 (Winter/Spring 2005).
鈥淏ully Camp Road鈥� and 鈥淕host Trees.鈥� Metre 17. (Spring 2005).