Don’t know what to write?
Run out of ideas?
Want to write, but nothing comes out?
If you enjoy reading, writing, or simply experiencing the magic of poetry, this workshop is for you. It’s a short, hands-on workshop designed to spark creative writing through focused poetic exercises led by Minerva Reynosa.
Minerva Reynosa (Monterrey, Mexico; 1979) is a poet, cultural manager, and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from El Colegio de Michoacán. She has published several poetry books, including Una infanta necia (2003), Emötoma (2007, Carmen Alardín Prize 2006), La íntima de las cosas (2007), Atardecer en los suburbios (2011), Fotogramas de mi corazón conceptual absolutamente ciego (2012), Mammut (video game app, 2015), the translation Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Stalina Villarreal (2016), Mammut & Jinba-Ittai (2019), Larga oda a la salvación de Osvaldo co-authored with Sergio Ernesto Ríos (2019), iremos que te pienso entre las filas y el olfato pobre de un paisaje con borrachos o ahorcados (2020), and Lo mejor que damos. Antología personal (2022).
Her work has been translated into German, English, Swedish, Russian, and French. She has presented at academic conferences and literary festivals in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, the United States, Spain, France, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Russia, and Finland. She received the Regional Carmen Alardín Prize (2006) and the National Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize (2020).
She currently collaborates with Benjamín Moreno on Benerva!, a project focused on textual, visual, and technological experimentation. She is an online instructor, literary consultant, and coordinator of various poetry outreach initiatives, and is a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators.