Author Talk with Reyes Ramirez In-Person
In observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, you're cordially invited to join us for a moderated conversation with Houston Poet Laureate and author, Reyes Ramirez! The author of The Book of Wanderers and El Rey of Gold Teeth, Reyes’ poetry and short stories explore class, race, living among conflicting histories, and the intrinsically linked idea of structural inequality. This will be an in-person event, free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed on HPL's Facebook page.
- Date:
- Saturday, October 11, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Stanaker Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults Seniors Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Author Talks / Book Clubs Holidays & Observances Spotlight Events
Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is the 2025 - 2027 Houston Poet Laureate, as well as a writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022), a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist, from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series, the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press, a finalist for the 2024 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry, and Cerveza Songs: Houston, TX (2024), a collection of craft beer poetry reviews and photography that is an honor-winner for the Fred Whitehead Award for Best Design of a Trade Book from the Texas Institute of Letters. His latest curatorial project, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids, explores the use of grids in contemporary Houston art, literature, history, and politics. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow, 2024 Speculative Play and Just Futurities Fellow and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund.
Võ Đức Quang is the Interim Executive Director of Public Poetry and a recipient of the Susan T. Scanlon and the Joy Linsley Memorial Poetry Awards at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His poems have been featured on diaCRITICS, Perfume River Poetry Review, and other publications. His literary interests are Vietnamese music and literature from 1930s-1975 as well as Vietnamese diasporic culture.