Poetry is Celebration: Writing Poems for the Occasion/La Poesía es Celebración: Escribiendo Poemas por la Ocasión In-Person
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop to see how poems can honor and memorialize an event, person, or occasion. We’ll read and discuss poems written for special events to see how poets can make something even more special before writing our own occasion poems. The poet can serve as a unique member of their community, and we’ll learn on how we can make this necessary role more common. No previous writing experience necessary.
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa para ver cómo los poemas pueden honrar y conmemorar un evento, persona, o ocasión. Vamos a leer y conversar poemas escritos para los eventos especiales para ver como los poemas pueden hacer algo más especial antes de escribir nuestros poemas de ocasión. La poeta puede servir como un miembro único de su comunidad, y vamos a aprender en cómo podemos hacer este papel más común. No se requiere experiencia previa en escritura.
This event is part of our Summer Reading for Grown-ups Program.
- Date:
- Saturday, July 11, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Park Place Regional 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.