San Diego’s new poet laureate sees poetry as a tool of empowerment

Poet laureate Jason Magabo Perez hopes to empower communities across San Diego to tell their stories through poetry and language.

whenever another blackout gifts us much needed stillnessdraft work songs for this city mighty we of rough draftof protest chant & scrapyard syntax we draft on the cornershoelaces & lost grocery lists we draft blueprints for survivalturmeric of cilantro of carne asada of freshly cooked ricepaper we work song at this bus stop for students we worky abuelitas we work song in tin drum glottal syllables ofaltar we draft verse on napkins & reused plastic grocerygeographic outside the donut...

worryin the alley off University behind 49th we draft of a perfectlysmall hill of middle grade paperbacks a gold purse full of fresh& white surgical masks we draft at the backyard family partiestires & flour tortillas where dried lemon rinds stick to pavementrainsoaked boxsprings work song for the infamous hot cheetosshift survivor song song of the parking lot nail salon work songwork song we draft as patrol cars cram the alley we draft as protestPriuses outside the mosque outside the...

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