Lupe Mendez
@thepoetmendez.bsky.social
🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor | Founder, Tintero Projects
| TX Poet Laureate Emeritus - linktr.ee/GuadalupeMendez
| TX Poet Laureate Emeritus - linktr.ee/GuadalupeMendez
Just getting on here real quick to share some awesome news! #Huizache Journal has nominated me and a few other good folks for a #PushCartPrize! This is my first nomination. So grateful!
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Just getting on here real quick to share some awesome news! #Huizache Journal has nominated me and a few other good folks for a #PushCartPrize! This is my first nomination. So grateful!
If you are in Galveston, TX- come see me launch my book!!
Link for more info:
www.visitgalveston.com/events/meet-...
Link for more info:
www.visitgalveston.com/events/meet-...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If you are in Galveston, TX- come see me launch my book!!
Link for more info:
www.visitgalveston.com/events/meet-...
Link for more info:
www.visitgalveston.com/events/meet-...
I had a beautiful book launch event. Here are some lights! ¡Fue una noche tremenda!
September 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I had a beautiful book launch event. Here are some lights! ¡Fue una noche tremenda!
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Did anybody else get this today?
August 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Did anybody else get this today?
If you are in Houston, join me as I launch my book tour for my second collection- PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED WORKS!
RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm
RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm
August 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you are in Houston, join me as I launch my book tour for my second collection- PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED WORKS!
RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm
RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm
My second book “Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works” is out now from @TCUPress! You can get your exclusive SIGNED COPY of the book if you order with nuestrapalabra.org!
#TexasPoetry #TXPL
#TexasPoetry #TXPL
August 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My second book “Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works” is out now from @TCUPress! You can get your exclusive SIGNED COPY of the book if you order with nuestrapalabra.org!
#TexasPoetry #TXPL
#TexasPoetry #TXPL
Once I asked my mom about what it was like to grow up as a teen in the 1950’s in the #RGV where Mexicanos had been lynched, deported just for being Brown, expelled for speaking Spanish - “we kept singing, we spoke Spanish mijo, we prayed, we cooked, because sometimes, una oración was all we had.”
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Once I asked my mom about what it was like to grow up as a teen in the 1950’s in the #RGV where Mexicanos had been lynched, deported just for being Brown, expelled for speaking Spanish - “we kept singing, we spoke Spanish mijo, we prayed, we cooked, because sometimes, una oración was all we had.”
I started the new year and have a new notebook for the job!
Yes, I have a tab for “Hot Mess.”
Comment below for what you think counts!
Yes, I have a tab for “Hot Mess.”
Comment below for what you think counts!
August 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I started the new year and have a new notebook for the job!
Yes, I have a tab for “Hot Mess.”
Comment below for what you think counts!
Yes, I have a tab for “Hot Mess.”
Comment below for what you think counts!
PRE-ORDER LINK TO MY NEW BOOK
PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT : New & Selected Works
www.nuestrapalabra.org/products/pra...
this collection spans 20 yrs, on travel, art, historical events and disasters +Texas politics w/a series of never before seen blackout poems.
BOOK DROPS JULY 21st from TCU Press!
PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT : New & Selected Works
www.nuestrapalabra.org/products/pra...
this collection spans 20 yrs, on travel, art, historical events and disasters +Texas politics w/a series of never before seen blackout poems.
BOOK DROPS JULY 21st from TCU Press!
July 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
PRE-ORDER LINK TO MY NEW BOOK
PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT : New & Selected Works
www.nuestrapalabra.org/products/pra...
this collection spans 20 yrs, on travel, art, historical events and disasters +Texas politics w/a series of never before seen blackout poems.
BOOK DROPS JULY 21st from TCU Press!
PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT : New & Selected Works
www.nuestrapalabra.org/products/pra...
this collection spans 20 yrs, on travel, art, historical events and disasters +Texas politics w/a series of never before seen blackout poems.
BOOK DROPS JULY 21st from TCU Press!
Please don’t look away- local leadership needs to be held accountable. Their job is to inform, advocate and play the long game- it’s about improving conductions, even if it means it cost more now- if they had worked to inform the community, all those years ago, think of the lives it could save now.
July 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Please don’t look away- local leadership needs to be held accountable. Their job is to inform, advocate and play the long game- it’s about improving conductions, even if it means it cost more now- if they had worked to inform the community, all those years ago, think of the lives it could save now.
It is my summer vacation. I teach creative writing at the High School for the Performing & Visual Arts here in Houston. All the posts you will see for the next few weeks are me enjoying summer:
June 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It is my summer vacation. I teach creative writing at the High School for the Performing & Visual Arts here in Houston. All the posts you will see for the next few weeks are me enjoying summer:
I got interviewed by a student about I curate a reading!!
May 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I got interviewed by a student about I curate a reading!!
I don’t give a shit what you say- ANDOR IS ONE OF THE BEST SERIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. PUNTO. FINAL.
May 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I don’t give a shit what you say- ANDOR IS ONE OF THE BEST SERIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. PUNTO. FINAL.
I HAVE ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT!
We at the @texasobserver.org have changed the line count for the poetry submission! NOW YOUR POEM CAN BE 45 LINES LONG!
Are you a Texas poet? Are you writing about Texas?
SUBMIT YOUR POEMS! Submission deadline is May 9th!
#TexasPoetry #PoetrySubmissions #Poetry
We at the @texasobserver.org have changed the line count for the poetry submission! NOW YOUR POEM CAN BE 45 LINES LONG!
Are you a Texas poet? Are you writing about Texas?
SUBMIT YOUR POEMS! Submission deadline is May 9th!
#TexasPoetry #PoetrySubmissions #Poetry
April 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I HAVE ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT!
We at the @texasobserver.org have changed the line count for the poetry submission! NOW YOUR POEM CAN BE 45 LINES LONG!
Are you a Texas poet? Are you writing about Texas?
SUBMIT YOUR POEMS! Submission deadline is May 9th!
#TexasPoetry #PoetrySubmissions #Poetry
We at the @texasobserver.org have changed the line count for the poetry submission! NOW YOUR POEM CAN BE 45 LINES LONG!
Are you a Texas poet? Are you writing about Texas?
SUBMIT YOUR POEMS! Submission deadline is May 9th!
#TexasPoetry #PoetrySubmissions #Poetry
Please join me in celebrating Texas poet Catherine Lu! Her latest piece “What Connects Us” has just been published in the latest issue of the @texasobserver.org.
www.texasobserver.org/what-connect...
www.texasobserver.org/what-connect...
April 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Please join me in celebrating Texas poet Catherine Lu! Her latest piece “What Connects Us” has just been published in the latest issue of the @texasobserver.org.
www.texasobserver.org/what-connect...
www.texasobserver.org/what-connect...
I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!
April 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!
LOOK ITS THE US GOVERNMENT BEING ANTISEMITIC.
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apnews.com/article/navy...
April 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
LOOK ITS THE US GOVERNMENT BEING ANTISEMITIC.
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apnews.com/article/navy...
If you are in #Houston, then come out to the 9th annual #HoustonLatinoFilmFestival - #TinteroProjects provides poetry - during the fest!
Saturday, March 15 - 12:30 to 1:15 at the MATCH Gallery.
Saturday, March 15 - 12:30 to 1:15 at the MATCH Gallery.
March 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If you are in #Houston, then come out to the 9th annual #HoustonLatinoFilmFestival - #TinteroProjects provides poetry - during the fest!
Saturday, March 15 - 12:30 to 1:15 at the MATCH Gallery.
Saturday, March 15 - 12:30 to 1:15 at the MATCH Gallery.
#EnHoraBuena - so glad I get a chance to be around familia - both #Huizache and #UTEP! I won't be so much at AWP, and excited to be a part of this joint reading! If you will be in town - hope you can drop by!
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
#EnHoraBuena - so glad I get a chance to be around familia - both #Huizache and #UTEP! I won't be so much at AWP, and excited to be a part of this joint reading! If you will be in town - hope you can drop by!
Part of my work as a writer is teaching creative writing- here are a few of the writing prompts I have provided my students! Go get these books and try the prompts out!!
February 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Part of my work as a writer is teaching creative writing- here are a few of the writing prompts I have provided my students! Go get these books and try the prompts out!!
Sometimes the work as a writer is a quiet movement: it’s building a teach-in supporting students + teachers dealing with ice and book bans or writing lesson plans for a Latino poetry anthology. I’ll be at a protest, but most times I am writing for a cause. #MidNightWriteClub
February 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Sometimes the work as a writer is a quiet movement: it’s building a teach-in supporting students + teachers dealing with ice and book bans or writing lesson plans for a Latino poetry anthology. I’ll be at a protest, but most times I am writing for a cause. #MidNightWriteClub