Kick off Pride Month with an intimate poetry reading and discussion about the challenges and joys of sustaining Queer and Trans Latinx literary communities across Texas.
Infrarrealista Review, in partnership with Gemini Ink and Letras Latinas,* present “Trans Poetica: A Pride Month Literary Plática.” This reading and conversation between three published trans Latine poets will be moderated by the 2025 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow, Cloud Delfina Cardona. This event will highlight Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Keagan Wheat, SG Huerta, author of Burns (Sundress Publications, 2026), and Stalina Villarreal, Spanish translator and author of Watcha (Deep Vellum, 2024).
These writers from across Texas will come together in San Antonio for an evening of centering trans Latine voices in a time of censorship and fear. Cardona, Wheat, Huerta, and Villarreal will all read from their published books and discuss their craft, publishing, and roles in their literary communities in Houston and San Marcos, TX. An audience Q&A will follow their discussion.
Our panel will be followed by a book signing with all four writers.
*the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies
Keagan Wheat (he/him) is a trans, Latinx, disabled poet, educator, and visual artist from Houston. In 2020, he released Viaticum. The Houston Transgender Unity Committee awarded him the Media and Arts Award for 2024. He’s a Pushcart Prize nominee with work appearing in The Acentos Review, Anomaly, Variant Literature and more. Check out his interviews with Brooklyn Poets and Latinx Lit. Find them on social media @kwheat09.
SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer, editor, and organizer. They are the Poetry Editor of Abode Press and the author of two poetry chapbooks and the nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. Find them at sghuertawriting.com. They believe Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She’s a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic eco-essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Her debut collection of poetry called Watcha is out now from Deep Vellum Publishing. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere.
