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Lupe Mendez

@thepoetmendez.bsky.social

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🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor | Founder, Tintero Projects | TX Poet Laureate Emeritus - linktr.ee/GuadalupeMendez

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 20

With the way the world is moving to crush and make invisible, I won’t be hiding. I will celebrate you and me and us. Make art. Tell me about your books- and I will tell you about mine.

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 2d

If you are in Galveston, TX- come see me launch my book!!

Link for more info:

www.visitgalveston.com/events/meet-...

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 11d

Out today: The long game that research historians played depended on the impractical approach of waiting out the natural death of the traditional narrative, a creation story of frontier exceptionalism that was baked into the Texan identity.

How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History

And how they could still start winning it.

www.texasobserver.org

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 14d

I had a beautiful book launch event. Here are some lights! ¡Fue una noche tremenda!

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 23d

I need you to come join me as I start my multi city tour for PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT!

Next Wednesday, at #FincaTresRobles September 24 @ 7pm!

RSVP to get some free books and a signed copy of my book!!

luma.com/pcyjkghm

Meet the Poet: Lupe Mendez · Luma

Great poetry. Free books. And you might win a free fajita dinner! Meet award-winning poet Lupe Mendez as he presents his new book PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW AND…

luma.com

Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote this article a few years ago- I didn’t know then how important it would become, now, in an age where all the book banning and defunding of ethnic communities is on the rise.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/149...

Adding Latinx Poetry to Your Curriculum

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 28d

My mother taught me to not speak ill of the dead. She also taught me not to mourn white supremicists.

“Quien siembra vientos,
recoje tempestades.”

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Villanelle (Taylor's Version) @villanelletv.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Fuck Ted Cruz"

-Green Day and pretty much everyone else

The words "Fuck Ted Cruz" displayed behind Green Day at one of the band's concerts

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · Sep 1

From our magazine: Rural Texas wears a friendly facade. You know everyone, and everyone treats each other so kindly, but, if you’re Black, you just ignore the stares when you walk into the local steakhouse for fish fry night.

Racism Wrapped in Rural Warmth

Staying in my hometown means facing subtle prejudice in day-to-day life.

www.texasobserver.org

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Sep 1

For all the #LatinosForTrump pendejos- I hope you are happy that this brilliantly thoughtful exhibit is now closed- our kids can’t see themselves in museums outside of the image of conquered people.

hyperallergic.com/1037811/smit...

Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months

As Trump goes after the institution, a temporary space for the National Museum of the American Latino closed ahead of schedule in preparation for America’s 250th programming.

hyperallergic.com

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Jennifer Lee 🎃 @uofagrad97.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Methodist Church steps up.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · Aug 27

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH

The media who do this are heartless bastards

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tapping the sign:

Horror movies can be elegantly constructed metaphors for the human condition AND fun times at the cinema with monsters. At the same time.

Saying "It's good because it's not really a horror movie" because you think it's deep and complex is not the compliment you think it is.

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kindnessmatters @djdigitalangel.bsky.social · Aug 26

To the Bluesky community and everyone who follows and fights.

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · Aug 24

Love this poem from @earthtokb.bsky.social selected by @thepoetmendez.bsky.social: www.texasobserver.org/texas-no-exo...

Poem: Texas, No Exodus

I insist on survival every day I stay in Texas...

www.texasobserver.org

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · Aug 23

The edgar is now a resistance haircut.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

'Edgar' haircuts, mohawks prohibited in El Salvador schools after military captain becomes education minister

Karla Trigueros has been praised by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, while teacher groups say a military official in charge of education is "absurd."

www.nbcnews.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Aug 21

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just got the good news! The #AWPBaltimore panel I am in was just accepted!

See you in March!

Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 20

With the way the world is moving to crush and make invisible, I won’t be hiding. I will celebrate you and me and us. Make art. Tell me about your books- and I will tell you about mine.

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 20

Did anybody else get this today?

Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 17

If you are in Houston, join me as I launch my book tour for my second collection- PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED WORKS!

RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm

Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 10

My second book “Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works” is out now from @TCUPress! You can get your exclusive SIGNED COPY of the book if you order with nuestrapalabra.org!
#TexasPoetry #TXPL

Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 6

This piece of shit fled his house to avoid being handed a subpoena to show up and talk about his firing of whistleblower aids in his office. Hypocrite.

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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · Aug 4

Once I asked my mom about what it was like to grow up as a teen in the 1950’s in the #RGV where Mexicanos had been lynched, deported just for being Brown, expelled for speaking Spanish - “we kept singing, we spoke Spanish mijo, we prayed, we cooked, because sometimes, una oración was all we had.”

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Aug 3

These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou

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