City of Peoples, City of Languages/Ciudad de las Gentes, Ciudad de los Lenguajes In-Person
City of Peoples, City of Languages: How to Use Your Language(s) for Poetry
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop that explores how language forms the world we live in, including our city. Then, we will see how many languages we know on literal, figurative, contextual, and personal levels and share them with each other. We will then write poetry inspired by our languages, histories, and desires that will push our imaginations further. No previous writing experience is necessary.
Ciudad de las Gentes, Ciudad de los Lenguajes: Como Usar Tus Idioma(s) Para la Poesía
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa que explora como los idiomas forman el mundo que vivimos en, incluyendo nuestra ciudad. Después, veremos cuantos idiomas sabemos en niveles literales, figurativos, contextuales, y personales y compartirlos entre nosotros. Escribiremos a la poesía inspiradas por nuestros lenguajes, historias, y deseos que llevaran nuestras imaginaciones mas allá. No se requiere experiencia previa en escritura.
- Date:
- Wednesday, September 9, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Large Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Carnegie Neighborhood Library and Center for Learning
- Age Group:
- Adults (18+) Teens (13-18 years)
- Categories:
- Classes & Education 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.