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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Holiday Open House
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for Dec 11!\n  \nJoin our community of writers\, readers\, and friends to share your work\, make connections\, and close the year on a high note. \nWe’ll also be celebrating our Partner Classes Teaching Artist of the Year for 2025 is Daniel Ramirez! Daniel is our TA of the Year for the amazing work he has been doing\, especially with youth\, for his wonderful creativity\, and his ability to be a great co-teacher and to take the lead when the situation calls for it. He has an excellent way of building rapport quickly with students\, whether they are reluctant 5th graders or busy public health workers. Through this rapport\, he helps participants feel safe enough to take risks in their writing and play creatively with ideas and words. We are so excited to honor Daniel this year! \nOpen mic sign-up starts at 6:30pm.Hosted by Mandy Lynn\, Public Classes Coordinator. \nWine\, non-alcoholic drinks\, coffee\, and snacks will be served. \nThank you to our sponsors! \n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/holiday-open-house-3/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus – Coates Chapel\, 300 Augusta\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Trans Poetica: A Literary Pride Plática
DESCRIPTION:Change of Venue: This event will now be held at the Southwest School of Art – Coates Chapel\, located at 300 Augusta. San Antonio TX 78205. (Across the street from Gemini Ink)\nFree parking at Gemini Ink & Southwest School of Art.\nKick off Pride Month with an intimate poetry reading and discussion about the challenges and joys of sustaining Queer and Trans Latinx literary communities across Texas.  \nGemini Ink\, in partnership with Infrarrealista Review and Letras Latinas*\, presents “Trans Poetica: A Pride Month Literary Plática.” This reading and conversation between three published trans Latine poets will be moderated by the 2025 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow\, Cloud Delfina Cardona. This event will highlight Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Keagan Wheat\, SG Huerta\, author of Burns (Sundress Publications\, 2026)\, and Stalina Villarreal\, Spanish translator and author of Watcha (Deep Vellum\, 2024). \nThese writers from across Texas will come together in San Antonio for an evening of centering trans Latine voices in a time of censorship and fear. Cardona\, Wheat\, Huerta\, and Villarreal will all read from their published books and discuss their craft\, publishing\, and roles in their literary communities in Houston and San Marcos\, TX. An audience Q&A will follow their discussion.  \nOur panel will be followed by a book signing with all four writers. \nLight refreshments will be served. Signed books will be available for purchase following the panel discussion. \n*Letras Latinas is the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies \n\nKeagan Wheat (he/him) is a trans\, Latinx\, disabled poet\, educator\, and visual artist from Houston. In 2020\, he released Viaticum. The Houston Transgender Unity Committee awarded him the Media and Arts Award for 2024. He’s a Pushcart Prize nominee with work appearing in The Acentos Review\, Anomaly\, Variant Literature and more. Check out his interviews with Brooklyn Poets and Latinx Lit. Find them on social media @kwheat09. \nSG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer\, editor\, and organizer. They are the Poetry Editor of Abode Press and the author of two poetry chapbooks and the nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their work has appeared in Barrelhouse\, Honey Literary\, Infrarrealista Review\, and elsewhere. Find them at sghuertawriting.com. They believe Palestine will be free from the river to the sea. \n \nStalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees\, hears\, feels\, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She’s a deep-watching ekphrastic poet\, a photographic eco-essayist\, a broad-stroke sketch artist\, a sonic improv performer\, a sound-sensitive literary translator\, and an assistant professor of English. Her debut collection of poetry called Watcha is out now from Deep Vellum Publishing. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review\, Texas Review\, The Acentos Review\, Defunkt Magazine\, and elsewhere. \n\nModerator\nCloud Delfina Cardona (she/they) is an artist\, writer\, and book cover designer from San Antonio\, Texas. She is the author of What Remains\, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize\, and the past is a jean jacket\, winner of the Hub City Press BIPOC Poetry Series. She co-founded Infrarrealista Review\, a literary nonprofit that publishes Texan voices. She is the 2024-2025 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow and currently works as the Marketing Coordinator at Gemini Ink. She moonlights as DJ Mexistentialism.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/trans-poetica-a-pride-month-literary-platica/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus – Coates Chapel\, 300 Augusta\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
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