The City of San Antonio has named Educator Eduardo “Eddie” Vega its seventh poet laureate. In addition to serving as an administrator at Holy Cross prep school, Vega is a poet, storyteller and spoken-word artist who’s published two full-length poetry collections, Chicharra Chorus and Somos Nopales, according to San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture. He also edited Asinia Is How We Talk, an anthology of Tejano poetry.
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