Poet Laureate Workshop: Houston Begins & Ends with You / Houston Empieza y Acaba Contigo In-Person
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop exploring how each of our experiences create Houston. We will use writing exercises to channel personal histories and radical hopes and come together to build Houston from our past, present, and futures. Participants will read historical markers/plaques, fiction, and poetry to create our own histories and cities to share them with each other to know our fellow Houstonians. No previous writing experience necessary!
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa que explora cómo nuestras experiencias crean a Houston. Utilizaremos ejercicios de escritura para canalizar nuestras historias personales y esperanzas radicales y usarlas para construir un Houston de nuestros pasados, presentes, y futuros. Los participantes leerán las placas históricas, ficción, y poesía para crear nuestras historias y ciudades para compartirlas y conocer a nuestros compatriotas houstonianos. ¡No se requiere experiencia previa en escritura!
- Date:
- Saturday, November 15, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Flores Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults (18+) Young Adult (12-17 yrs)
- Categories:
- Arts, Crafts & Hobbies Technology & 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.