In episode 1 of season 4 of Ink Well host Lupe Mendez and guest host Icess Fernandez Rojas chat with Joy Priest about her new poetry collection Horsepower.

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Ink Well S4 E1 featuring Joy Priest

In episode 2 of season 4 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Darrel Alejandro Holnes about his new poetry collection Stepmotherland.

Ink Well S4 E2 featuring Darrel Alejandro Holnes

In episode 3 of season 4, Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Javier Zamora about his new memoir Solito.

Ink Well S4 E3 featuring Javier Zamora

In episode 4 of season 4 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Reyes Ramirez about his new short story collection The Book of Wanderers.

Inkwell S4 E4 featuring Reyes Ramirez

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.

Ink Well S1 E1 featuring poet Analicia Sotelo

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.

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Ink Well S1 E2 featuring writer Daniel Peña

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. 

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Ink Well S1 E3 featuring poet Deborah "DEEP" Mouton

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.

Ink Well S1 E4 featuring Robin Davidson

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.

Ink Well S1 E5 featuring Tony Diaz

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.

Ink Well S1 E6 featuring Jasminne Mendez

In episode 7 of Ink Well, Jasminne and Lupe chat with New York based poet, Sheila Maldonado.

For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

Ink Well S1 E7 featuring Sheila Maldonado

In episode 8 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with 2017 International Man Booker finalist and author of Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin. She was in Houston as part of the 2017/2018 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. A majority of this episode is in Spanish.

En episodio 8 de Ink Well, anfitriones Jasminne y Lupe Mendez charlan con Samantha Schweblein, una finalista para el premio Internacional Man Booker. Sra. Booker estaba presente en Houston para participar en la serie literaria Margarett Root Brown de Inprint.  La mayoría de este episodio es conversación en español.

Ink Well S1 E8 featuring Samanta Schweblin

In the season one finale of Ink Well, Jasminne and Lupe talk with poet Rigoberto González.

For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

Ink Well S1 E9 featuring Rigoberto González

In the first episode of Ink Well Season 2, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez have a conversation with spoken word poet and activist Jonathan Mendoza.

For feedback on the show, email inkwell@inprinthouston.org.

Ink Well S2 E1 featuring Jonathan Mendoza

In episode 2 of season 2 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe chat with Natalia Sylvester about her novel Everyone Knows You Go Home.

Ink Well S2 E2 featuring Natalia Sylvester

In episode 3 of season 2 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza about her novel The Tiaga Syndrome.

Ink Well S2 E3 featuring Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza

In episode 4 of season 2 of Ink Well, hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Palestinian poet, translator, and physician Fady Joudah about his work and his poetry collection Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance.

Ink Well S2 E4 featuring Fady Joudah

In episode 5 of season 2 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet Ching-In Chen about being a poet and their latest work.

Ink Well S2 E5 featuring Ching-In Chen

In episode 6 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and guest host Daniel Peña chat with Lupe Mendez about his new poetry collection Why I Am Like Tequila.

Ink Well S2 E6 featuring Lupe Mendez

In episode 7 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Cruel Futures.

Ink Well S2 E7 featuring Carmen Giménez Smith

In episode 8 of season 2 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet, actor, and community organizer Noel Quiñones about his work on the page and in the community.

Ink Well S2 E8 featuring Noel Quiñones

In episode 1 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz about her work in the community and forthcoming collection Who Speaks for Us Here.

Ink Well S3 E1 featuring Leslie Contreras Schwartz

Ink Well S3 E2 featuring Raquel Salas Rivera

In episode 3 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Houston author Addie Tsai about her YA novel Dear Twin.

Ink Well S3 E3 featuring Addie Tsai

In episode 4 of season 3 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet and author Carolyn Forché about her memoir What You Have Heard Is True while she was in Houston as part of the 2019/2020 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.

Ink Well S3 E4 featuring Carolyn Forché

In episode 5 of season 3 of Ink Well hosts Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with Emanuelee Outspoken Bean about how he became a performance poet and his work in the community.

Ink Well S3 E5 featuring Emanuelee Outspoken Bean

Ink Well, a podcast presented by Tintero Projects & Inprint 

"Ink well." —a suggestion/salutation/blessing to the literary community of Houston, the Texas Gulf Coast, and beyond.
 
Join writers, educators, activists, and founders of Tintero Projects Jasminne and Lupe Mendez, as they work with Inprint, a 30+ year old nonprofit literary arts organization in Houston, Texas, to host Ink Well, a new podcast for anyone engaged in the world of reading and writing. With their energy, charismatic wit, and fresh perspective, Lupe and Jasminne will interview writers (established as well as emerging) from across the United States on what it’s like to ink "well" in this day and age. Welcome to Ink Well: A Tintero Projects & Inprint Collaboration.

Content marked as explicit for occational instances of strong language.

Ink Well: A Tintero Projects & Inprint Podcast

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