{"id":1999,"date":"2025-09-03T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smallplaces.org\/?post_type=mec-events&p=1999"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:17:43","slug":"nuestra-palabra-meet-the-poet-lupe-mendez","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/smallplaces.org\/es\/event\/nuestra-palabra-meet-the-poet-lupe-mendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuestra Palabra Presents Meet the Poet: Lupe Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finca Tres Robles is proud to host Nuestra Palabra’s book launch event for Lupe Mendez’s<\/strong> PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Great poetry. Free books. And you might win a free fajita dinner!<\/p>\n

\u200bMeet award-winning poet Lupe Mendez as he presents his new book PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS as part of the NP Global Reading Series, brought to you in part by the Brown Foundation. This is a Big Read Kick-Off Session. Free admission. Order exclusive signed copies at www.NuestraPalabra.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u200bNuestra Palabra (NP) will provide book sales of PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT and other titles. Meet Lupe after the reading. Take a pic with him. Get copies of Lupe’s book for your family library and donate a copy to one of our underground libraries.<\/p>\n

\u200bNP is proud to organize the Texas-wide tour of Lupe Mendez, an alum of NP, co-founder of the Librotraficante Caravan, and Tintero Projects. He’s currently the Poetry Editor for The Texas Observer. The poems in this collection span a 20 year writing career (2005 \u2013 2025) in which Mendez has worked to speak on issues and everyday experiences. The poems here cover his view on travel and art, historical events and disasters and even a response to Texas politics with a series of never before seen blackout poems.<\/p>\n

\u200bMendez has over 20 years of experience as a performance poet – having opened up for notable writers as Dagoberto Gilb, Esmeralda Santiago, U.S. Poet Laureates, Juan Felipe Herrera and Ada Limon and legendary writers such as the late Raul Salinas.<\/p>\n

\u200bIn the foundational tradition of Nuestra Palabra, we will also feature new, up-and-coming writers and surprise guest poets. Do not miss this.<\/p>\n

\u200bMaster of Ceremonies: Professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, founder of Nuestra Palabra. Author of THE TIP OF THE PYRAMID: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe stellar line up celebrating Lupe Mendez includes:<\/p>\n

\u200bMiriam Damaris, Aris Kian, Jasminne Mendez\u00a0with the literary debuts of Patrick Sanchez and Melissa Herrera. Bios below.<\/p>\n

\u200bWin Dinner for Two at The Original Ninfa’s: 1700 Post Oak Blvd #1-190, Houston, TX 77056. We will have a drawing for two tickets for dinner for two at Ninfa’s.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt’s easy to enter:<\/p>\n