CELEBRATE MAY DAY WITH ESE VATO JORGE ANTONIO RENAUD! We’re celebrating the launch of Jorge’s book, The Restlessness of Bound Wrists! Join us at Red Salmon Arts for an evening of Jorge’s powerful poetry about liberation and resistance. Jorge will also be joined by the 2025 Hays Youth Poet Laureate, Adelie Donovan.
Since his last release from prison in 2008, Jorge Antonio Renaud has been a policy analyst and community organizer at various social justice organizations, among them the Texas Center for Justice and Equity, Grassroots Leadership, the Prison Policy Initiative, and Latino Justice PRLDEF. Jorge was honored to be selected as the 2020 Poet in Residence by the Civil Rights Corps and the 2021 Writer in Residence at the Texas After Violence Project. He is the proud father of Katie, a woman who enchants and astonishes and befuddles him in equal measures.
