

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Octavio Quintanilla TX Poet Laureate 2025
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 07:15 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us in welcoming award-winning poet and UTPA alum Octavio Quintanilla back home to the RGV. He has just been named Texas Poet Laureate 2025. 

Octavio Quintanilla is the author of three poetry collections including IF I GO MISSING, THE BOOK OF WOUNDED SPARROWS, and LAS HORAS IMPOSIBLES. He is a professor at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. 

This 6pm reading by Octavio followed by Q&amp;A takes place in the ELABS 107 Studio Theatre (next to the Jeffers Theatre). 

Octavio will also give a workshop at 4pm before this: https://facebook.com/events/s/visual-poetry-workshop-with-oc/24203100729282712/

For more information or accommodations, please contact emmy.perez@utrgv.edu
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburg/octavio-quintanilla-tx-poet-laureate-2025/200028327368855
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028327368855?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=edinburg-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburg
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1201 W. University Ave, ELABS 125, Edinburg, TX
- **lat**: 26.3052
- **long**: -98.17597
- **full address**: 1201 W. University Ave, ELABS 125, Edinburg, TX, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: UTRGV Department of Creative Writing (https://allevents.in/org/utrgv-department-of-creative-writing/21294739)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1201 W. University Ave, ELABS 125, Edinburg, TX, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** UTRGV Department of Creative Writing
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, theatre
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Octavio Quintanilla TX Poet Laureate 2025 ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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