Mar. 31 marks the 29th anniversary of the death of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez.
SAN ANTONIO — Poetry may be a classical form of expression, butinflects his stanzas with a contemporary sheen—incorporating references to Marvel, the census process and gun control.
A native of McAllen who has called San Antonio home for 30 years, the award-winning poet is acutely aware of the relative lack of Latino voices, faces and influence across media. He comments on that very absence across his work. Here are five things to know about Vega as he begins his tenure as one of the city's cultural ambassadors. Vega's poetry has always come from a personal place. That includes his earliest works, which he wrote for his mother when he was 8 or 9 years old, or"maybe younger."
"Then I was somewhere at an open mic or reading somewhere and the host, I think it was Vocab actually, she says, 'You're the Taco Poet of Texas,'" Vega recalls."She declared it. Once somebody else declares it, then it's more official." "That kind of goes back to that idea of representation," Vega said about the unorthodox writing styles found in the collection."As American poets, we're told to write in English or speak in English, and Mexican poets will write in Spanish. But we're Mexican-American poets, and sometimes the way that we talk in this area is to use both. I wanted to highlight those voices of poets that were doing that.
"We want to read poems or hear poems that sound like us, that we can relate to because they sound like us," he said."Visual media can do that, too. The difference is the sound and the word... we offer you a quick bite over the poem. It’s a little morsel so that you want to get some more." on Poets & Writers shows South Texas writers Carmen Tafolla, Jacinto Jesús Cardonas and Trinidad Sanchez Jr. are among his authors of choice.
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