Eduardo "Eddie" Vega has been selected as the 2024 - 2027 San Antonio Poet Laureate. Vega will serve as the City's seventh Poet Laureate for a three-year term spanning April 1, 2024 - March 31, 2027. This honorary position focuses on promoting literary and poetic arts and literacy in the community. A public investiture ceremony was held at City Council Chambers to officially appoint Vega to the position.
Vega is a poet, storyteller, spoken word artist and educator. He works as a director at Holy Cross of San Antonio. He has published two full-length collections of poetry: Chicharra Chorus and Somos Nopales and was editor of a collection of poetry Asina Is How We Talk. Vega is the recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation and was named best local poet by the San Antonio Current in 2022. During the pandemic, he founded and continues to host the Mouth Dakota Poetry Project, a biweekly open mic for poets of any skill and experience levels.
"I'm very honored and excited to take on this responsibility of Poet Laureate for San Antonio - a city that welcomed me three decades ago, whose people have supported me, whose culture has enriched me, and which continues to be the creative energy behind this poet," said Vega. "I look forward to work with the Department of Arts & Culture and the City of San Antonio in the cultivation of literary arts to impact all of the gente de este pueblo mágico while introducing voices of every corner of this city to our community and beyond."
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