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National Poetry Month: “Vietnamese Noodle House” By Gwendolyn Zepeda

The former Houston Poet Laureate reads a poem that feels like a local snapshot.

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Poet Gwendolyn Zepeda
Poet Gwendolyn Zepeda

Poet and fiction writer, Gwendolyn Zepeda, is a native Houstonian and served as the city’s very first Poet Laureate from 2013 – 2015. She reads her poem “Vietnamese Noodle Shop,” an impressionistic vignette of a rainy day in Houston.

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Photo by Lawrence P. Lander

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