Stalina Villarreal

Come get your FREE copy of Watcha at @magparkarts 7515 Avenue J. The book fair will go on til 5 o’clock. I will be around until the copies are gone.

UNBOXING VIDEO of my translation WE’LL GO AS I THINK OF YOU BETWEEN LINES AND THE POOR SENSE OF SMELL FROM A LANDSCAPE WITH DRUNKARDS OR HANGED HUMANS by Minerva Reynosa @minerva.reynosa ! Soon to be published by @elmartillopress !

Thank you to everyone who came out to see @kwheat09 , @solidaddecosta , @mari__resiste , @_koomah_ , @chinginchen and me at @friendsgalleryhtx on Monday. It was special to see so much talent come together in my barrio. I hope you enjoyed it

Come on out Monday, May 4th at 7pm to Friends Gallery (7040 Harrisburg Blvd) for a night of readings featuring poet Ching-In Chen, celebrating the release of their recent book, SHINY CITY. Rejoined by many of the poets from their last HTX, multimedia project, Breathing in a Time of Disaster (with Cassie Mira) More about the book: “Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future … Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.” Featuring local trans & gender-expansive poets Koomah, solidad decosta, Keagan Wheat, Mariposa Tejada, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal! There will be books for sale, a donation bar &, of course, community!

Thank you to everyone who came to see us perform @whalesoundz ‘s score “by chance or through effort.” Here we are afterward backstage with @patygirasola . The rest of the performers were Aryn Ward, Joe Wozny, Ryan Stickney, Nour, Nicole Sebesta, and Jason Jackson. It was fun, so I hope you enjoyed it, too!

Tonight at 7:30 PM, at Talento Bilingüe de Houston, I will help perform @whalesoundz ‘s score with some amazing musicians, a vocalist, and a dancer. Come see some experimental music!

★⋆. Come on out Monday, May 4th at 7 pm to Friends Gallery (7040 Harrisburg Blvd) for a night of readings featuring poet Ching-In Chen @chinginchen , celebrating the release of their recent book Shiny City. Rejoined by many of the poets from their last HTX, multimedia project, Breathing in a Time of Disaster with Cassie Mira. More about the book: “Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future. . . Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.“ Featuring local poets: Koomah @_koomah_ solidad decosta @solidaddecosta Keagan Wheat  @kwheat09 Mariposa Tejada @mari__resiste Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal @profstalina There will be books for sale, a donation bar and of course community!

I’ll be performing at the E^3 (E Cubed) festival, which is three days of experimental music in the East End. I will be performing in Friday’s event at Talento Bilingüe de Houston, at 7:30 PM. I’m part of the group performing the score by @whalesoundz

Thank you to everyone who came to my reading at @dreamers.bookstore today. I had the pleasure of reading alongside the talented poets @erikasaidyeah @miriamcitafemme @solidaddecosta @nisabes @anolisgaddx @lau.ce @abdy86 and I don’t know one of the readers but enjoyed her work!

we’ll go as i think of you between lines and the poor sense of smell from a landscape with drunkards or hanged humans / iremos que te pienso entre las filas y el olfato pobre de un paisaje con borrachos o ahorcados the new bilingual collection in English and Spanish by Minerva Reynosa @minerva.reynosa is available now for pre-order on elmartillopress.com. Translated by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal @profstalina . Cover and interior art by Benjamín R. Moreno Ortiz. “A selenography maps the physical features of the Moon. Here in Spanish and in the superb English translations of Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, the extraordinary poet Minerva Reynosa turns her attention to landscapes of memory and Monterrey, in which Selena lyrics are backdrop and backbone, como las cordilleras across the Américas. From the perspective of pseudo pochas, gal pals fearless in the face of patriarchy and femicide, comes this urgent poetic and sonic remapping of our borderlands—where the poet’s cultural capital are cumbias, where we hear Norteño and Nirvana in the aftermath of NAFTA, and where bidi bidi bom bom is pulse-prosody and lifeline in the rodeo and open wound of la frontera.” —Brandon Som, author of Tripas (2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and The Tribute Horse        #minervareynosa #coverreal #monterreyméxico #librosenespañol #elmartillopress

Monday, April 13, at 7 PM Central, @chinginchen and I will be presenting (virtually) our docupoetics at the Traveling Mollys Reading Series. The livestream is a link in my bio.

La editorial boricua Semipermeable les trae su primera lectura de poesía en Houston, Texas. Este evento es en colaboración con @dreamers.bookstore ! Será un encuentro tan necesario como contundente, con la participación de varixs poetas en un junte que no te puedes perder. Nos vemos el domingo 19 de abril a las 2 de la tarde.