FEATURED READINGS

Tintero projects works hard at providing reading and performance opportunities in order to celebrate the release of new books and unsung voices of writers who everyone should get to know.

Join us for our latest Reading:

A HOUSTON BOOK LAUNCH FOR ROSEBUD BEN-ONI

Rosebud Ben-Oni’s latest book, turn around BRXGHT XYXS, is Ben-Oni’s second collection out now with Get Fresh Books.

Praise for Ben-Oni:

“"The propulsion and scope of Ben-Oni's poems— engaging everything from biblical figures to '80s music— give each word an exhilarating amount of power... turn around, BRXGHT XYXS audaciously owns its otherness, traveling the world—and the universe—without losing sight of the United States we now inhabit."

—Lynn Melnick in Jewish Currents

Joining her will be 3 of Houston’s own poets:

Jasminne Mendez
Stalina Villarreal
Leslie Contreras Schwartz

Recent Reading:

A HOUSTON BOOK LAUNCH FOR AYOKUNLE FALOMO -

Ayokunle Falomo's latest book, AFRICAN, AMERICAN is the winner of the 2019 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize.

With unfaltering tenderness and radical honesty, Falomo moves in that liminal space to expand our definition of what it means to “document.”

Selah Saterstrom, the judge of this year’s contest, writes of African, American: “I am blown away by the energy Ayokunle Falomo transmutes into the line: the way he rebloods the meat of the breath-wrapped and delivered word. Falomo reminds us that the body is always a revelatory body; a place of reading. A place where shatter-conjunctions acquire legibility; where documents and certificates seam-up with lamentation-celebrations. I keep thinking of this work as a match that brings light and fire into this long, long night.”

Joining him at the launch will be 3 of the Houston area's best writers -

Loyce Gayo
Torrina Harris
Jasminne Mendez

Books will be for sale, there will be a book signing and a Q & A as well.

Friday, December 20, 2019 - 7 to 9pm.
Inprint House - 1520 W. Main