- New and notable: The 2002-2003 Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series speakers: September 30 Coleman Barks and Robert Bly October 21 Sandra Cisneros November 11 Mario Vargas Llosa January 27 George Saunders and Colson Whitehead February 10 Bharati Mukherjee and Naomi Shihab Nye March 17 Tomaz Salamun and Charles Simic April 28 Ann Beattie First Friday Poetry Readings the first Friday of ...www.inprint-inc.org