Podcast appearances and mentions of lupe mendez

As book bans become fashionable and favorable vs just outright discrimination, one of our own Librotraficantes has been deemed too controversial for K-12. Lupe Mendez, 2022 Texas Poet laureate and award winning author, has had his book "Why I Am Like Tequila?" banned at a Texas Panhandle school along with other BIPOC and LGBTQi+ books. Tony Diaz speaks with our hermano about why this happened, what this means, and what the next move is in the Librotraficante movement. Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe Mendez (Writer // Educator // Activist) is the author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas @ El Paso. Mendez's work can been seen in print and online formats including the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Mendez is the 2022 Texas Poet Laureate. Follow Lupe on Twitter, at @thepoetmendez and on Instagram, at @ellupis. Tony Diaz Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, is a Cultural Accelerator. He was the first Chicano to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. In 1998, he founded Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say (NP), Houston's first reading series for Latino authors. The group galvanized Houston's Community Cultural Capital to become a movement for civil rights, education, and representation. When Arizona officials banned Mexican American Studies, Diaz and four veteran members of NP organized the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to smuggle books from the banned curriculum back into Arizona. He is the author of The Aztec Love God. His book, The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital, is the first in his series on Community Organizing. * This is part of a Nuestra Palabra Multiplatform broadcast. * Video airs on www.Fox26Houston.com. * Audio airs on 90.1 FM Houston, KPFT, Houston's Community Station, where our show began. * Live events. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net Nuestra Palabra is funded in part by the BIPOC Arts Network Fund. Instrumental Music produced / courtesy of Bayden Records Website | baydenrecords.beatstars.com

In episode 4 of season 4 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Reyes Ramirez about his new short story collection The Book of Wanderers.

In episode 3 of season 4, Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Javier Zamora about his new memoir Solito.

Join Chris of The Poetry Question in a sit down with Jasminne Mendez, Author of City Without Altar (Noemi Press), about passions, process, pitfalls, & Poetry! Jasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, translator and award winning author of several books for children and adults. She is the author of two hybrid memoirs, Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press) and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Arte Público Press). Her second YA memoir, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American (Arte Público Press) is forthcoming in May 2022 and her debut poetry collection, City Without Altar, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry and will be released in August 2022. Her debut middle grade book Anina del Mar Jumps In (Dial) is a novel in verse about a young girl diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and is set to release in 2023. Her debut picture book Josefina's Habichuelas (Arte Público Press), was released last year. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies including The Kenyon Review, New England Review, the YA Latinx Anthology Wild Tongues Can't be Tamed edited by Saraciea Fennell (Flatiron/Macmillan), and in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books). She has translated and written poetry and a libretto for the Houston Grand Opera and she translated Amanda Gorman's best-selling Change Sings into the Spanish edition La canción del cambio. The dramatized version of her play in verse City Without Altar received its world premiere at Milagro theatre in Portland, Oregon this spring. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, a University of Houston alumni, and a Canto Mundo Fellow. Based in Houston, she is the Co-Founder and Program Director of the Houston based Latinx literary arts organization Tintero Projects and a co-host to the poetry and writing podcast series InkWell a collaboration between Tintero Projects and Inprint Houston. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow, a Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop Peter Taylor Fellow and a Macondo and VONA alumni. When she's not writing or napping in her hammock she enjoys playing with sand on the beach with her daughter, swimming in the ocean or a pool, practicing yoga, baking cupcakes and laughing with her partner in poetry and in life Lupe Mendez - the Texas State Poet Laureate. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Nuestra Palabra: To Live, Love, Heal & Experience Violence as a Black Person w/ Jasminne Mendez Jasminne Mendez talks to Tony Diaz about her book, "City Without Altar" and how her book helped her redefine her identity as a Black woman and better understand what it means to be Black. Jasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, translator and award winning author of several books for children and adults. She is the author of two hybrid memoirs, Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press) and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Arte Público Press). Her second YA memoir, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American (Arte Público Press) is forthcoming in May 2022 and her debut poetry collection, City Without Altar, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry and will be released in August 2022. Her debut middle grade book Anina del Mar Jumps In (Dial) is a novel in verse about a young girl diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and is set to release in 2023. Her debut picture book Josefina's Habichuelas (Arte Público Press), was released last year. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies including The Kenyon Review, New England Review, the YA Latinx Anthology Wild Tongues Can't be Tamed edited by Saraciea Fennell (Flatiron/Macmillan), and in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books). She has translated and written poetry and a libretto for the Houston Grand Opera and she translated Amanda Gorman's best-selling Change Sings into the Spanish edition La canción del cambio. The dramatized version of her play in verse City Without Altar received its world premiere at Milagro theatre in Portland, Oregon this spring. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, a University of Houston alumni, and a Canto Mundo Fellow. Based in Houston, she is the Co-Founder and Program Director of the Houston based Latinx literary arts organization Tintero Projects and a co-host to the poetry and writing podcast series InkWell, a collaboration between Tintero Projects and Inprint Houston. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow, a Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop Peter Taylor Fellow and a Macondo and VONA alumni. When she's not writing or napping in her hammock she enjoys playing with sand on the beach with her daughter, swimming in the ocean or a pool, practicing yoga, baking cupcakes and laughing with her partner in poetry and in life Lupe Mendez - the Texas State Poet Laureate. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jmendezmemoirs/ Twitter: @jasminnemendez Instagram: @jasminnemendez Website: https://www.jasminnemendez.com/ * This is part of a Nuestra Palabra Multiplatform broadcast. * Video airs on www.Fox26Houston.com. * Audio airs on 90.1 FM Houston, KPFT, Houston's Community Station, where our show began. * Live events. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net Nuestra Palabra is funded in part by the BIPOC Arts Network Fund.

'The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital' (University of New Orleans Press, 2022) by writer and activist Tony Diaz, known as El Librotraficante, was published ten years after Arizona officials enforced a ban on Mexican American Studies. Diaz drove throughout the Southwest on his way to Arizona—with a caravan of Houston activists that included poet Lupe Mendez, Liana Lopez, Bryan Parras, and Laura Razo—after the state banned high school Mexican American studies programs, thus outlawing curriculums that consisted of books like The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; The Months and Other Stories by Helena Maria Viramontes; Luis Urrea's The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway, among others. Diaz's The Tip of the Pyramid addresses the power and importance of cultural and community capital as a source of “self empowerment of our gente.” In this episode of OP Talks, he discusses the new book with Dr. Angela Valenzuela, director of the University of Texas Center for Education Policy, and doctoral student and longtime educator Patricia Núñez. They also discuss his activism work with the nonprofit he founded, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, and the mobilization of librotraficantes to fight bans on Latino authors and ethnic studies. Diaz notes that, with the national politicalization of school boards and book bans still taking place today, the need to work on behalf of the Latino community remains urgent. He shares a story about visiting the Mayan archaeological complex Teotihuacán in Mexico: While to some it is a tourist trap, for Diaz it proved to be a spiritual experience that made him feel both thrilled and angry. He remembers sitting on the steps of this ancient city, “having all these revelations in my mind” and thinking, “Wow, we have [been] brainwashed. I am standing on the proof of our gente's power, beauty, intelligence, and this has been kept from me, and the fact that this structure here exists is testament to all that.” The media, Diaz laments, constantly fails to accurately represent the Latino experience: “The forms that exist, especially from corporate media and corporate publishing, do not fully convey our experiences and, in some cases, they just erase us.”

In episode 2 of season 4 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Darrel Alejandro Holnes about his new poetry collection Stepmotherland.

NP ALL LIT #7 features readings, poetry, and prose from: Lupe Mendez - author of WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Maria Miranda Maloney - a Latina poet, editor, and bilingual publisher. She was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in a small farm community of mostly immigrant families. Her family's outings consisted of crossing the U.S-Mexico border every Sunday to visit family in Zaragoza, a town outside Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. She learned to navigate two different worlds, including language and traditions. Carolina Monsiváis - author of Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso, Elisa's Hunger, and Descent. A dedicated advocate in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault, she has worked with survivors in Texas, New Mexico and Juárez. She earned degrees from the University of Houston (B.A) and New Mexico State University Vincent "Chente" Cooper - a writer and previous US Marine living in San Antonio. His productions in collections incorporate Boundless, Refreshing San Antonio, Ban This: An Anthology of Chicano Literaturek, and Big Bridge Magazine: Refreshing San Antonio. His chapbook, Where the Reckless Ones Come was distributed by Aztlan Libre Press. "Zarzamora' his latest work has been described as poetry of survival and recounts through prose expereiences along one of San Antonio Texas' throughfares. Lastly, he is a member of The Macondo Writer's Workshop. His poems can be found in Huizache and Riversedge. He currently resides in the westside of San Antonio, TX. Reyna Grande - her new novel A Ballad of Love and Glory. As a girl, she crossed the US– México border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies, and the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Reader's Edition and A Dream Called Home. Edward Vidaurre - is the author of eight collections of poetry. Vidaurre's poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Poetrybay, as well as other journals and anthologies. David A. Romero - is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press), a book reviewed by Gustavo Arellano (¡Ask a Mexican!), Curtis Marez (University Babylon), and founding member of Ozomatli, Ulises Bella. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net

The Latino Bookstore & Gift Shop is proud to continue its Texas Author Series Friday, June 3, 2022, at 6 pm, with free admission. The 2022 Texas Author Series is kicked off by Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez who will present his collection. of poetry titled Why I Am Like Tequila. "I am thrilled to be a part of this literary movement in San Antonio!" Mendez said. He added, "The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has always been a beacon of hope and art in a city as proud as San Antonio. From theater to poetry, I've had amazing experiences with that space, so of course, I am damn proud to be able to share my work at its new bookstore. Whenever we can get together to celebrate each other‘s work, this is what resistance can look like, especially in a state where partisan politics looks to control what people read and what people study. I will always be here, con un Libro en la Mano.," About Lupe Mendez: Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe Mendez (Writer//Educator//Activist) is the author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas @ El Paso. Mendez's work can be seen in print and online formats including the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Mendez is the 2022 Texas Poet Laureate. Follow Lupe on Twitter, at @thepoetmendez and on Instagram, at @ellupis The evening will be hosted by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, Literary Curator of the Latino Bookstore. He said, “The Latino Bookstore brings together so many legacies. Lupe Mendez is an alum of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, which I founded in Houston, Texas. He first read in public at our events. Now, he is recognized statewide. for his work. it is thrilling for the Latino Bookstore to unite all Texans to celebrate our culture and books.” Cristina Balli, Director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, which houses the Latino Bookstore, said, “This is the kind of event and the caliber of talent that we want to showcase all year long at the Latino Bookstore. We want the West Side, San Antonio, and all of Texas to experience the power of Latino Literature at their fingertips." The Latino Bookstore's Texas Author Series takes place every First Friday. Subsequent authors will represent the entire state of Texas. Their work also touches on many other aspects of Latino culture, Mexican American History, and the other art fields that the GCAC specializes in. Additional programming includes community readings for local authors on Saturdays. The Mexican American Studies Series And more! Friday, June 3, 2022, 6 pm: Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez with his collection Why I Am Like Tequila. Friday, July 1, 2022, 6 pm: California & Texas Unite for the Latina Tri-City Tour featuring Claudia Castro Luna author of Cipota Under the Moon & Ire'ne Lara Silva author of Hibiscus Tacos. Friday, August 5, 2022, 6 pm: Writer and activist, Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante presents his new book The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 pm: Writer, poet, translator, and performer Jasminne Mendez presents her new book City Without Altar. The Latino Bookstore is open Tuesday through Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm. 1300 Guadalupe Part of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/

Nuestra Palabra Presents Poetry Spotlight with 2022 Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez; listen to him from his book "WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA" and from his new writings. This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe Mendez (Writer // Educator // Activist) is the author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas @ El Paso. Mendez's work can been seen in print and online formats including the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Mendez is the 2022 Texas Poet Laureate. Follow Lupe on Twitter, at @thepoetmendez and on Instagram, at @ellupis. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net

In episode 1 of season 4 of Ink Well host Lupe Mendez and guest host Icess Fernandez Rojas chat with Joy Priest about her new poetry collection Horsepower.

In this episode listen to the conversation between host, Tim Z. Hernandez and author Lupe Mendez.He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at El Paso. Mendez's work can be seen in print and online formats including the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Mendez is the 2022 Texas Poet Laureate. Follow Lupe on Twitter, at @thepoetmendez and on Instagram, at @ellupis.

This week Chibbi and Raqui broadcast LIVE from the Bbaravado Ink Book Fair in Galveston, TX, sharing work and having conversation with the featured writers, including Torrina Harris, LeChell "The Shootah," Kenji Lockett, Aris Kian and Lupe Mendez! Check it out to hear about their latest work, projects, and what the future holds for each of them.

Recorded by Lupe Mendez for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 31, 2021. www.poets.org

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NP: ALL LIT II Poetry, Prose, and Music From Beginning to End Featuring: David Romero, Xavier Garza, Gris Muñoz , Angie Trudell Vasquez , Emmy Pérez, and Lupe Mendez, and the soundtrack to a revolution. Tune in for NP Radio every Tuesday 6 pm – 7 pm CST on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream on www.KPFT.org. On Demand at www.NuestraPalabra.org. Thanks to our crew for donating their cultural capital to the show: Leti Lopez, Antonio Diaz, Rodrigo Bravo, who mixed the show remotely, Claudia Soler Alfonso, MD., Jesse Aranda Comer our summer inter through Rice University, Laurie Flores, Stefano Cavezza, and Al Castillo President of LULAC Council 60. Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz on 90.1 FM KPFT. That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm. And catch Tony Diaz on the political talk show What's Your Point on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am. www.KPFT.org www.NuestraPalabra.org www.Librotraficante.com www.TonyDiaz.net

On this week's installment of Words & Sh*t we're bringing you Houston poet, educator, and organizer Lupe Mendez, as we talk about life, language, location, and so much more. Hosted by Chibbi and Eddie Vega, tune in to this intimate performance and conversation to get to know the person behind the poetry! Poet, educator, and activist Lupe Mendez is the author of the poetry collection Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019) which won the 2019 John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Best First Book of Poetry. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. His poetry has appeared in Luna Luna, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Revista Síncope, Pilgrimage, Border Senses, Latino Rebels, Gigantic Sequence, the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast and Poetry Magazine, among others.

NP: ALL LIT I: Poetry, Prose, Music From Beginning to End. Featuring poetry by Matt Sedillo, Gris Muñoz Acosta, Lupe Mendez, Jose Torres-Tama, and prose by Tony Diaz, Alvaro Saar, Leticia Manzano. Aired Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6 pm - 7 pm CSt 90.1 FM KPFT. Houston, Texas. We are in pledge drive. There are no regular shows about our art, culture, and politics on commercial television or radio. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Call 713.526.5738. Or visit www.kpft.org. Thanks to our crew: Leti Lopez Rodrigo Bravo, who mixed the show remotely Claudia Soler Alfonso, MD. Jesse Aranda Comer Laurie Flores Stefano Cavezza Al Castillo Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. Tony Diaz also appears on What's Your Point on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am. www.NuestraPalabra.org www.Librotraficante.com Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

In episode 5 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Emanuelee Outspoken Bean about how he became a performance poet and his work in the community.

In episode 4 of season 3 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet and author Carolyn Forché about her memoir What You Have Heard Is True while she was in Houston as part of the 2019/2020 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.

In episode 3 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston author Addie Tsai about her YA novel Dear Twin.

Recent winner of the John A. Robertson Prize for 1st Book of Poetry 2020 Bootleg Like Jazz is excited to have Lupe Mendez on the show today. Lupe Mendez is the author of the poetry collection Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019). He earned an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the University… Continue reading → The post Bootleg Like Jazz presents Lupe Mendez – Tequila, Poetry and Readings from his award winning novel appeared first on Bootleg Like Jazz.

In episode 1 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz about her work in the community and forthcoming collection Who Speaks for Us Here.

In episode 8 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet, actor, and community organizer Noel Quiñones about his work on the page and in the community.

In episode 7 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Cruel Futures.

In episode 6 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and guest host Daniel Peña chat with Lupe Mendez about his new poetry collection Why I Am Like Tequila.

Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and the Nuestra Palabra Crew talk to poet Jo Reyes-Boitel, Poet Lupe Mendez, Houston Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Fox 26 Houston anchorman José Griñan. Click her to donate to Nuestra Palabra. Donate today and we’ll list you among our summer muses on our website through Hispanic Heritage Month and we’ll give you a shout out on the air: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm…_id=9CPLMM88TF5BS Bios: Poet Leslie Contreras Schwartz utters her first sentence after being officially announced as Houston's new poet laureate! Jo Reyes-Boitel is a poet, playwright, and essayist. A novice hand percussionist. Jo is also a rabid music listener and former music researcher. She is a Texas transplant by way of Minnesota, Florida, Mexico, Cuba. Lupe Mendez discusses his new book "Why I Am Like Tequila". Originally from Galveston, TX, Mendez (Writer//Educator//Activist) works with Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Brazilian Arts Foundation and other organizations to promote poetry events, advocate for literacy/literature and organize creative writing workshops that are open to the public. He is the founder of Tintero Projects and works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region. Lupe co-hosts INKWELL, a collaborative podcast on regional, national and international Latinx writers and other writers of color. Mendez is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow and an Emerging Poet Incubator Fellow. Mendez has nearly 20 years of experience as a performance poet, having opened up for such notable writers as Dagoberto Gilb, Esmeralda Santiago and the late Raul Salinas. He has shared his poetry across the country in places such as the Holocaust Museum Houston, the Jung Center, MECA (Houston), the Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts (San Francisco), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (Albuquerque) and the Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin). A keynote speaker/poetry performer across Texas, Mendez hosts writing workshops across the country, most recently as a teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation’s Teacher Poetry Summits. NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. Board operator: Terrell Quillin. Producers: Leti Lopez & Marlen Treviño. Co-hosts: Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, Lupe Mendez, and Fox 26 Houston anchorman José Griñan. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. Tony Diaz Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays & The Other Side Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Mon Noon "The Cultural Accelerator" at www.TonyDiaz.net Tues 6pm NP Lit Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston www.NuestraPalabra.org 24/7 The Other Side TV www.TheOtherSideTV.com

In episode 5 of season 2 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet Ching-In Chen about being a poet and their latest work.

Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and the Nuestra Palabra Crew provide a sneak preview of the XXI Anniversary Showcase of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say featuring the Godfather of Chicano Literature Dagoberto Gilb and poet Lips Mendez. The show aired live Tuesday April 2, 2019, the night before the NPXXI showcase at the Museum of Fine Arts Brown Auditorium. Click her to donate to Nuestra Palabra: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9CPLMM88TF5BS Dagoberto Gilb is the author of nine books, including The Magic of Blood, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, Woodcuts of Women, Gritos, The Flowers, and Before the End, After the Beginning. He is also the editor of two canonical anthologies, Hecho en Tejas: Texas Mexican Literature and Mexican American Literature, and the founding editor of Huizache, the country’s best Latino literary magazine. Among his own writing’s honors are the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers Award; his work has been a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle and PEN/Faulkner Awards and has been honored several times in Texas as a proud part of its literary tradition. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Best American Essays, O’Henry Prize Stories, and several hundred others, much of it widely reprinted in textbooks. Gilb spent sixteen years making a living, as a father of two children, in the construction trades, twelve of them as a journeyman high-rise carpenter with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. He has since taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, the University of Wyoming, Vassar, and Texas State University. He is currently the executive director of CentroVictoria, at the University of Houston-Victoria. Born and raised in Los Angeles to an American father and a Mexican mother, he has lived as long in both El Paso and now Austin. Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe (Writer//Educator//Activist) works with Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Brazilian Arts Foundation and other organizations to promote poetry events, advocate for literacy/literature and organize creative writing workshops that are open to the public. He is the founder of Tintero Projects and works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. In addition, Lupe co-hosts INKWELL - a collaborative podcast creation between Tintero Projects and Inprint, placing a monthly spotlight on Regional, National and International Latinx writers and other Writers of Color. Mendez is a CantoMundo Fellow , a Macondo Fellow and an Emerging Poet Incubator Fellow and his newest collection of poetry - WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA is forthcoming from Willow Books. Dr, Jesse Esparza is a professor at Texas Southern University, NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. Producers: Leti Lopez & Marlen Treviño. Board operator: Terrell Quillin Tony Diaz Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays & The Other Side Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Mon Noon "The Cultural Accelerator" at www.TonyDiaz.net Tues 6pm NP Lit Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston www.NuestraPalabra.org 24/7 The Other Side TV www.TheOtherSideTele.com

In episode 4 of season 2 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Palestinian poet, translator, and physician Fady Joudah about his work and his poetry collection Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance.

In episode 3 of season 2 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza about her novel The Tiaga Syndrome.

In the first episode of Ink Well Season 2, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez have a conversation with spoken word poet and activist Jonathan Mendoza. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life* * *Summary for July 1, 2018* * *Dear Folks -I don’t know about you but I am, or was, virtually ignorant about the history of immigration in the United States. A lot of controversy has been stirred up in recent weeks about the issue of “family separation,” especially at the Mexico/Texas border. Because St. Paul’s has a large Hispanic community, Fe y Esperanza for example, it was decided to offer the Ordinary Life time this past week to an effort to increase our knowledge and awareness of this matter. To that end activist, educator and poet, Lupe Mendez, spoke at the 9:45 hour and, then, was available for Q&A at 11.We have no text of his presentation. There is the handout that he made available that you can download below.You can listen to or download the audio version of Lupe's presentation by clicking on the audio player below. To watch the video, click on the video player below: Lupe Mendez I will resume teaching this coming Sunday, July 8. The title of that talk will be, “I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like.”I hope you have a safe and restful Fourth of July. We have freedoms and privileges that are rare upon this earth. We give thanks.Also, the Michael Dowd event is now open for registration. I know November seems like a long way off but I expect this event to “sell out.” The registration fee includes lunch. Child care is available at no cost. To register, click here.For those of you who are not aware of it, Ordinary Life is now live-streamed over FaceBook and there is a You Tube channel where you can view past Ordinary Life presentations. Enjoy.If you are reading this, I want you to know how grateful I am for and to you.Be well and much love,Bill KerleyTo view or download the handout of the presentation, click here.  

In episode 8 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with 2017 International Man Booker finalist and author of Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin. She was in Houston as part of the 2017/2018 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. A majority of this episode is in Spanish. En episodio 8 de Ink Well, anfitriones Jasminne y Lupe Mendez charlan con Samantha Schweblein, una finalista para el premio Internacional Man Booker. Sra. Booker estaba presente en Houston para participar en la serie literaria Margarett Root Brown de Inprint. La mayoría de este episodio es conversación en español.

In episode 6 of Ink Well, host Jasminne Mendez gets the table turned on her as she is interviewed by host and husband Lupe Mendez plus guest host and Houston writer Icess Fernandez about Jasminne's new book, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poems. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 5 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston writer, activist, and professor Tony Diaz. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 3 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez talk with Houston’s current Poet Laureate Deborah "DEEP" Mouton. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 2 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Pushcart Prize winner Daniel Peña about family, being a writer, and his debut novel BANG, recently published by Arte Público Press. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org. http://inprinthouston.org/for-readers/ink-well-a-podcast-by-tintero-projects-inprint/

In this inaugural episode of Ink Well--a new podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas--hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet Analicia Sotelo about being a writer, what it means to “ink well” in this day and age, and her new poetry collection Virgin, selected by Ross Gay as the first winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. Content marked as explicit for two instances of strong language.

Co-hosts Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Lupe Mendez, Librotraficante Lips Mendez interview 2018 Mc Allen, TX Poet Laureate Edward Viduarre & writer Claudia Martinez, author of "Pig Park" and "The Smell of Old Lady Perfume". We rant about the Alabama Election-where voters stopped a #BadHombre, & we discuss the MFAH exhibit "Home-So Different So Appealing" featuring international Latino Artists.

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz talks about his experience as a consultant for the international block buster Coco by Pixar. And archivist Lisa Cruces about her op-ed which appeared in the Houston Chronicle: Preserve the spectrum of diversity in our archives: Libraries still don't include enough works by or about Hispanic women". Co-hosts Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante; Lupe Mendez aka Librotraficante Lips Mendez, Claudia Macias aka Librotraficante La Comadre, Prodcuer Marlen Trevion aka Librotraficante Malu, and board operator Joe Trevino.