Jason Magabo Perez, appointed San Diego Poet Laureate in 2023, is closing his term — and his San Diego Poetry Futures 2024 initiative — with a poetry festival at UC San Diego this weekend.
2023-2024 San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez is shown on Dec. 10, 2024 at UC San Diego's Cross-Cultural Center.Poet and educator Jason Magabo Perez will soon conclude his two-year term as the city of San Diego's official poet laureate.It was a powerful moment — for poetry, for storytelling and for those street corners throughout San Diego where workers, immigrants, elders and communities come together.
"I'm a community organizer. I know it takes a lot of time to build relationships, to build trust, to build reciprocity, to build cultures of accountability," Perez said., a multi-tiered approach to exploring the possibilities for poetry and shared expression throughout the region using education, youth outreach, public projects and literary programming.
The festival will also include a book fair featuring local presses and literary organizations, along with a zine-making lab facilitated by Hello Barkada.San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez is shown at the UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center on Dec. 10, 2024. He holds his book of poetry,"I ask about what falls away."
While the festival is a"coda" — a musical term for a finale or concluding stanza — Perez views it more as a beginning. "The spirit is one of collaboration," he said."Yes, it's about spotlighting and giving poets love and spotlighting our local artists, but I'm hoping it's another space where we convene and we dream and we plant more seeds and think, ‘Oh, we can do this on this scale, or we can continue to do this.’"Julia Dixon Evans writes the KPBS Arts newsletter, produces and edits the KPBS/Arts Calendar and works with the KPBS team to cover San Diego's diverse arts scene.
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