A Day of Houstonian Life: Making the Mundane Extraordinary/Un Dia en la Vida de un Houstoniano: Haciendo el Mundano al Extraordinario In-Person
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop to see how even the most mundane days reveal something extraordinary. We’ll read and explore poems about living a day in other lives for inspiration before writing our own. Every day of life can be a blessing, and poetry can help share our joys, griefs, and everything in between. We are what we do, after all… No previous writing experience necessary.
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa para ver cómo incluso los días más mundanos revelan algo extraordinario. Vamos a leer y explorar poemas sobre viviendo un día en otras vidas para inspirarnos a escribir nuestros poemas. Cada día de la vida puede ser una bendición, y la poesía puede ayudarnos a compartir nuestras alegrías, penas, y todo lo demás. Al fin y al cabo, somos lo que hacemos... No se requiere experiencia previa en escritura.
This event is part of our Summer Reading for Grown-ups Program.
- Date:
- Tuesday, June 2, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Ring Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults Seniors Teens (13-18 yrs)
- Categories:
- Summer Reading Program 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.