San Antonio educator named as city's seventh poet laureate
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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