New Poet Laureate of Texas Visits Fayette County

Round Top Family Library and The Friends of Winedale hosted Octavio Quintanilla, the new Poet Laureate of Texas on Sept. 21 for an afternoon of literature, art, and conversation with one of Texas’ leading voices in poetry at the Meadows Building at the Winedale Historical Center. Quintanilla read some of his poems and showed the “frontextos” (visual poems) that accompany the
text in his books.