Ink Well: A Tintero Projects & Inprint Podcast

In episode 6 of Ink Well, host Jasminne Mendez gets the table turned on her as she is interviewed by host and husband Lupe Mendez plus guest host and Houston writer Icess Fernandez about Jasminne's new book, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poems. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 5 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston writer, activist, and professor Tony Diaz. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 4 of Ink Well, Jasminne and Lupe chat with poet Robin Davidson about the Houston Favorite Poem Anthology and more. Robin Davidson, a resident of Houston for more than 50 years, was named Houston’s second Poet Laureate by Mayor Annise Parker in 2015 and served through April 2017 under the leadership of Mayor Sylvester Turner. She is a graduate of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and is the author of two poem chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World, and the collection Luminous Other, as well as co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of The New Century: Poems from the Polish of Ewa Lipska. Most recently she has served as editor for Houston’s Favorite Poems, an anthology of best loved poems contributed by those living in Greater Houston. She teaches literature and creative writing as professor of English for the University of Houston-Downtown.

In episode 3 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez talk with Houston’s current Poet Laureate Deborah "DEEP" Mouton. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

In episode 2 of Ink Well—a podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas—hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Pushcart Prize winner Daniel Peña about family, being a writer, and his debut novel BANG, recently published by Arte Público Press. For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org. http://inprinthouston.org/for-readers/ink-well-a-podcast-by-tintero-projects-inprint/

In this inaugural episode of Ink Well--a new podcast by Tintero Projects and Inprint for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing from Houston, Texas--hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet Analicia Sotelo about being a writer, what it means to “ink well” in this day and age, and her new poetry collection Virgin, selected by Ross Gay as the first winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. Content marked as explicit for two instances of strong language.