Paola Capó-García: Poet Laureate on Humor Intimacy and Voice in Poetry
Mi Camino: Latinx/Chicanx Speaker Series
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January 7, 202625m 9s
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Show Notes
Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García explores how graduate study, mentorship, and workshops shape her writing and sense of voice. Capó-García describes building poems through experimentation, including physically cutting and rearranging pages, and links her work to family stories and identity. As poet laureate, she focuses on widening access through public readings, workshops, and multidisciplinary projects that mix poetry with visual art, zines, music, and experimental short films. She also advocates teaching beyond a narrow canon so more students can hear themselves in poems and view arts and humanities training as a foundation for communication skills. Series: "Education Channel" [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 41024]
Topics
San Diego Poet LaureateMFApoetry writing processcontemporary poetryeveryday language in poetryhumor in poetryintimacy in poetrypoetry and identityPuerto Rican poetSan Juan Puerto Ricopoetry workshopsmentorship in creative writing