Every Portrait is a Self-Portrait: Writing Portrait Poems / Cada Retrato es un Autorretrato: Escribiendo Poemas de Retrato In-Person
Every Portrait is a Self-Portrait: Writing Portrait Poems
Join Reyes Ramirez, Houston’s 7th Poet Laureate, for a creative writing workshop that will explore portraiture through poetry. Painters have colors, and writers have words. How can a poem explore a life? We will think of those close to us and/or inspired us and then write poems in their honor. How can our words share histories and inspirations so that others can walk down paths others have created? After all, who we choose to write about reveals who we are.
Cada Retrato es un Autorretrato: Escribiendo Poemas de Retrato
Únete con Reyes Ramirez, el séptimo Poeta Laureado de Houston, por un taller de escritura creativa que explora a los retratos atreves de la poesía. Los pintores tienen colores, y los escritores tienen palabras. ¿Como puede un poema explorar una vida? Pensaremos de las personas acerca a nosotros y/o inspiro a nosotros y después escribir poemas un su honor. ¿Como pueden nuestras palabras compartir a nuestras historias e inspiraciones para que otra gente pueden caminar por los caminos hechos de otros? Por fin, quien escogemos a escribir sobre muestran quienes somos.
- Date:
- Saturday, October 31, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Heights Neighborhood Library
- 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.