Nuestra Palabra Presents Meet the Poet: Lupe Mendez
Finca Tres Robles is proud to host Nuestra Palabra’s book launch event for Lupe Mendez’s PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
Great poetry. Free books. And you might win a free fajita dinner!
Meet 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.
Nuestra 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.
NP 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 – 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.
Mendez 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.
In the foundational tradition of Nuestra Palabra, we will also feature new, up-and-coming writers and surprise guest poets. Do not miss this.
Master of Ceremonies: Professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, founder of Nuestra Palabra. Author of THE TIP OF THE PYRAMID: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital.
The stellar line up celebrating Lupe Mendez includes:
Miriam Damaris, Aris Kian, Jasminne Mendez with the literary debuts of Patrick Sanchez and Melissa Herrera. Bios below.
Win 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.
It’s easy to enter:
RSVP to our LUMA Invite. (This one.)
Check in when you arrive at the event.
Hang out. Winner must be present.
Free Poetry Anthology: Nuestra Palabra is a proud recipient of a Big Read Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
First 100 attendees who RSVP via Luma (This one here.) and check in that evening receive a free copy of the poetry anthology YOU ARE HERE: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. A book talk will follow. Please share with us work inspired by the anthology.
Brought to you in part by The Brown Foundation, The BIPOC Arts and Network Fund, The Law Offices of Carolina Ortuzar-Diaz, PLLC, MONDAY Paper, and Que Onda Magazine.
