We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798893750300)

LUPE MENDEZ, the 2022-2023 Texas Poet Laureate, is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at El Paso, and his work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry magazine, and Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, among others. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo and the Crescendo Literary/Poetry Foundation poetry incubator. Mendez is originally from Galveston, Texas, and now lives in Houston, where he has worked as an educator for 25 years.