08/25/2025
Round Top Family Library and The Friends of Winedale invite you to meet Octavio Quintanilla, the new Poet Laureate of Texas.
Sunday, September 21 at 3:00 p.m.
Meadows Building, Winedale Historical Center
3738 FM 2714, Winedale, Texas
Reception to follow
Octavio is the founder and director of VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Two of his three poetry collections have received special notice: The Book of Wounded Sparrows was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours won the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets.
Join us for an afternoon of literature, art, and conversation with one of Texas’ leading voices in poetry.
