events
February 26, 2025
Zoom: 6:00 pm Central / 7:00 pm Eastern
An Evening of New Poetry with Matthew Johnson, Shanta Lee, Ruben Quesada, Ruth Ellen Kocher & Tiana Clark
Hudson Valley Writers Center. Learn More.
March 3-7, 2025 (4 Sessions, 120 minutes)
Zoom: 6:00 pm Central / 7:00 pm Eastern
“Writing Through the Silence” Workshop: Learn strategies to produce new writing that feels fresh and authentic with a blend of generative exercises and personal reflection to guide. Multi-genre. Learn More.
“Ruben's course was well-organized, well-paced, and well-prepared. I usually struggle with generative exercises in 3-hour workshops -- there doesn't seem to have any time, or it's hard to get into the mindspace to write anything. I found that not only Ruben created a safe and supportive space that made writing easy, but his prompts were effective in generating work." —Mariko O. Gordon
March 26-28, 2025
AWP Conference. Learn more.
March 29-31, 2025
Saints & Sinners Literary Festival. Learn more.
April 10-14, 2025
Northern Arizona Book Festival. Learn more.
April 26-27, 2025
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Learn More.
June 6-8, 2025
Keynote Address
Aurora Writers Workshop. Learn More.
June-July, 2025
Barcelona, Spain
Pan-European MFA in Creative Writing, Low-Residency Program. Learn more.
PAST EVENTS
2025
The Poetry Salon at City Lit Books with Rebecca Lehmann and Ruben Quesada.
Wilder Words with authors Didi Jackson, Carl Phillips, Susanna Sonnenberg, and Ruben Quesada.
Poetry & Biscuits with Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro.
An Inconvenient Hour with Rachel Mennie, Faylita Hicks, Naomi Cohn, and Ruben Quesada.
2024
Poets House, NYC
BGSQD, The LGBT Community Center NYC
NYC KGB Bar, Monday Night Poetry Series
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco LitQuake
San Francisco State University
Library of Congress National Book Festival
Baylor University, Virginia Beall Ball Lecture in Contemporary Poetry
Rutgers University-Camden, MFA Visiting Writers Series
2023
Colorado College
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino
Writers Week, University of California-Riverside
New Trier High School, Literary Festival
2022
University of Illinois-Chicago
San Francisco State University
Woodland Pattern Book Center
2021
University of San Francisco
