Octavio Quintanilla

The plaza, sitting across from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on Market Street, celebrates eight prominent San Antonio labor figures and replaces a deteriorating statue of American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers, who died in San Antonio.

Poet Laureates are government-appointed figures whose voices not only promote poetry, but often reflect and speak to the current sentiment of the country.…

Pursue the preservation of poetry through education. Inspire established and emerging generations of literary artists and readers. Celebrate the literary…