Poet Laureate Workshop: The Houston Art of Process / El Houstoniano Arte del Proceso In-Person
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop that explores how the processes we do, whether it’s cooking, fixing a car, teaching, being stuck in traffic, or getting ready for a storm, define who we are as people and as Houstonians. We will then write our own process poems and share them with each other to know our fellow Houstonians through poetry. No previous writing experience necessary!
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa que explora en cómo los procesos que hacemos, si sea cocinando, arreglando un carro, dar clases, estar atrapado en él tráfico, o preparando por una tormenta, definan en quienes somos como personas y houstonianos. Después, escribiremos nuestros poemas de procesos y compartiremos para conocer a nuestros compatriotas de Houston a través de la poesía. ¡No se requiere experiencia previa en escritura!
- Date:
- Saturday, September 13, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Freed-Montrose Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults Seniors Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture Workshop
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.