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Hill Country
Author, host, teaching artist and public speaker.
Mother, writer, artivist, public speaker, and educator.
Journalist, writer, Austin Hip-Hop archivist.
South Texas
Mexican American poet from San Antonio and an Immigrant son. Author of My Mother, the Butcher.
2019 Poet Laureate of Texas
Poet and memoirist, author of Freedom House and Pretty.
Gulf Coast
Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow, author of Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs.
Dominican-American poet, translator, playwright, audio book narrator and author of several books for children and adults.
Panhandle
Poet, playwright, and author of the matchstick litanies.
The author of How to Abandon Ship and Failure and I Bury the Body, winner of the National Poetry Series
poet born, raised, and based in Texas and the author of Book of Provocations
Author, playwright, director, performer, critic, and the first Black Poet Laureate of Houston, TX
Former Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. and the author of numerous books.
2023 Poet Laureate of Texas, author of the eaters of flowers.
Writer, educator, activist, and author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA.
Poet, educator, and author of Dirt and Liberty.
Praries and Lakes
Dallas Poet Laureate and the author of uthor of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS.
Writer, poet, and literary organizer.
Houston Poet Laureate and Southern Fried Poetry Slam Champion
Poet, Critic, Professor, author of Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes.