https://www.thetinteroprojects.org/home daily 1.0 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/bc2629de-8092-4d0a-aeec-93be36e76860/SinMurosPoetry.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1569203551301-CZ69AE6C4SX715LXC5YX/5M8kWK_Z.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/9f1c6087-e85c-4e53-860b-1ff54649fce5/651642028_1242656571395613_4437869011832884119_n.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thetinteroprojects.org/our-vision daily 0.75 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1569168144050-FBKHB91ECQQ1S1XBJE8X/TinteroProjectsLogo.jpg Our Vision - Un tintero es la fuente del escritor. The word tintero is Spanish for inkwell, a old school container once used to house the ink for a pen. The image was selected as a way to show that this project, this movement is about providing resources for the writer. Welcome to Tintero Projects. Founded by poet Lupe Mendez, Tintero Projects / Proyectos Tintero aims to promote writing & reading opportunities for emerging Latinx poets and writers in the Houston – Galveston/Gulf Coast Region. Originally founded as just “Tintero Readings”, Méndez hopes to reestablish a nurturing aspect to the every growing Latino writing community, with Houston as its main hub. Tintero Projects is the emerging writer’s arm of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, focusing on creating workshop, performance and community opportunities in Spanish, English, Spanglish, Indigenous Languages and Portuguese. Tintero Projects is dedicated to helping create a platform for Latinx writers and Writers of Color. https://www.thetinteroprojects.org/our-team daily 0.75 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1569197579843-6AJAW47W3UB4FVA064I5/b606c527262e6e727d8d323a970cea2be5920fbc.jpeg Our Team - Tintero Projects Organizers Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1569198259579-NKLW63V99P7IJ1A7UPWS/copie-de-img_0510-1.jpg Our Team - Jasminne Mendez - Events Coordinator Jasminne Mendez is an award winning author, performance poet and educator. She received her B.A. in English Literature and her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston. Mendez has had poetry and memoir published both nationally and internationally and her first multi-genre memoir Island of Dreams was published by Floricanto Press was awarded Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book by the International Latino Book Awards in 2015. Recently, her personal essay El Corte received honorable mention in the Barry Lopez Creative Non-Fiction Prize in CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts and was published in their Best of CutThroat edition March 2016. She has shared the stage as a performance poet with world renowned authors Taylor Mali, Sandra Cisneros, Dagoberto Gilb, and Aamalia Ortiz. She is a 2016 VONA Alumni, a CantoMundo Fellow and a Macondo Fellow and received her MFA from the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her latest book - Nightblooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays & Poetry was published in 2018 by Arte Publico Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/4dad4f7b-3714-497b-8ae1-916570a805f7/Screen+Shot+2021-11-21+at+4.19.19+PM.png Our Team - Reyes Ramirez - Chapbook Coordinator Reyes Ramirez is a Houstonian, writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. Reyes won the 2019 YES Contemporary Art Writer’s Grant, 2017 Blue Mesa Review Nonfiction Contest, 2014 riverSedge Poetry Prize and has poems, stories, essays, and reviews in: Indiana Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, december magazine, Arteinformado, Texas Review, Houston Noir, Gulf Coast Journal, The Acentos Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, and has been awarded grants from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. His short story collection The Book of Wanderers will be published with University of Arizona's Camino del Sol series in Spring 2022. https://www.thetinteroprojects.org/collaborations daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/a4ac665e-33c1-4bab-9c42-9d1067fad0b7/SinMurosPoetry.png Collaborations - Make it stand out For this 9th year, we are joined by three brilliant poets: Cynthia Plascencia Yeiry Guevara Isaac Salazar You can click on each of their names to link to their websites or social media pages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/d8d49b62-6c05-4817-abe1-a00eac6cecf9/651642028_1242656571395613_4437869011832884119_n.jpg Collaborations - This year’s festival poets include: Hugo Esteban Rodriguez Miriam Damaris Mardivino Icess Fernandez Rojas Reyes Ramirez (Current Houston Poet Laureate) https://www.thetinteroprojects.org/featured-readings daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1577162230131-84KYV271KFNXYGI4XXTR/EI2b3O4XUAUeLzI.jpeg Featured Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1577162292948-3HBL987ZHK8WHG3NH3NK/escritores-en-l_33979824.png Featured Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1577162285725-XLFMGSH3TSKYLUCH4SDJ/nov-featured-re_34015604.png Featured Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1577162282308-7GJ8EWKVQAUB3SYY8UVC/peregrinas-read_27094295.png Featured Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/1577162325403-GGTXUA1O9LORPJ3LHTYE/Bermejo+Book+Launch+2017.png Featured Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8799a99b817b5f7b6d98ea/7386e3f2-ace7-44b5-9408-5663fcfc46c3/630115607_1215409607453643_2459835805297635_n.jpg Featured Readings - 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