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Central Texas
Retired Presbyterian minister and former adjunct faculty at San Francisco Seminary.
Panhandle
Professor, author of Creative Hearts and Western Spaces, Western Places.
Poet and author of Maps of Injury.
South Texas
2012 Texas Poet Laureate and NEA Poetry Fellow.
Prairies and Lakes
Poet, essayist, and memoirist.
Hill Country
Author, host, teaching artist and public speaker.
Mother, writer, artivist, public speaker, and educator.
Journalist, writer, Austin Hip-Hop archivist.
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.
Inaugural Poet Laureate of Dallas and author of Occupy Whiteness
Poet, educator, author of Olympic Butter Gold.
2016-2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate, and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate.
Big Bend
Professor, writer, and poet.
CantoMundo Fellow and author of author of Portrait of Us Burning.
Poet, podcaster, author of Welcome to Midland.
Dominican-American poet, translator, playwright, audio book narrator and author of several books for children and adults.
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.
2020-23 Poet Laureate of San Antonio and author of She Lives in Music
Educator, writer, and a former journalist
Poet, professor, author of Seam.
Poet, artist, and editor.
Poet, performer, art-ivist, coach, social worker, health educator, and mental health advocate.
2018-2019 City of McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate, 2022 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, and publisher of FlowerSong Press.
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.
Poet, educator, and founder of A Little More Truth, LLC.
