Eddie Vega

Mega Corazón showcases the giant poetic heart of San Antonio for National Poetry Month URBAN-15's co-founder George Cisneros is joined by San Antonio Poet Laureate Eddie Vega to preview the 2025 Mega Corazón poetry event.

San Antonio has a Mega Corazón as its heart. URBAN-15 celebrates with a mega poetry marathon that can be streamed 24-7 through the end of National Poetry Month. Hear more here with George Cisneros and @eltacolico.bsky.social.
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With our SA, group meeting on Capitol Hill, talking priorities, esp in housing & health care. I felt like Ainsley Hayes from the West Wing:

The people I have met are extremely qualified, their intent is good. Their commitment is true, they are righteous, and they are patriots.

And I’m their poet

Don’t be all, “Sabes que? I eat a lot of eggs - I’m giving them up for Lent. It’s a sacrifice.”

Diosito sabe, bro.

I think I understand Emily Dickinson's decision to remain in poetic obscurity more and more each day - she didn't have to fill out grant or fellowship applications.

I feel like the timeline on Kid Rock’s Kennedy Center Honor just got moved up.

If they ask, “papers?”
make a peace sign
turn it on its side
say, “scissors!”
and walk away

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Because eggs and deportation.

All I’m saying is that if Americans are going to go to Mars, that they do it legally. I wouldn’t want them working hard to get all the way over and then deported because of paperwork.

What are the chances the people pardoned for invading the capital can turn around and replace the workers lost to deportation?

They should call him Re-Pete because we’ve heard all this mess before…

…and it never seems to matter at all.

The same people who want you to accept Jesus in your life
will not accept Jesús in their cities

Maybe it’s time to pivot to a virtual AWP and go back to LA in a few years like how KC got a redo from Covid. It makes little sense to go and occupy places to stay while locals are looking for places to live.

Congrats!

Hopefully Annunciation House cites religious freedom as quickly as the other side does to defend their unjust policies.

Writing is a tough gig. The least we can do is be good to each other.

This is why I do t trust Yelp.

Also, Bubba’s is a chain restaurant. So is Burger Boy, but it’s local so that’s ok. If we’re mixing in national chains, Whataburger may as well be on the list.

I need to go buy candles later and I can’t remember which is the saint for school closure. 🙏 😇

We’re currently living during a younger person’s future nostalgia.

So now that they’re phasing out the horse-drawn carriages in downtown San Antonio, hear me out:

LOW RIDERS

- expressions of local culture
- can be decorated according to the season
- low and slow, but still make the light
- tires don’t get hurt like hooves do
- no poop in the street

Ugh. Can we stop being so exclusive?

Drake should go, too.

It’s not a race; it’s a journey. It took me me 25 years, but I finally finished this MA degree. Thanks to all who supported and never gave up on me.

Not me. I get annoyed. I’ve earned these wrinkles, this bald head, the salt and pepper beard. Take one look and say: Yeah, you deserve this whiskey.

And have another, too. Sorry for stepping on your lawn.

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.

My speaking fees will be going up in January because most of my poetry originated in Mexico. #tariffs

“tamal” implies the existence of “tabien”

San Antonio - we’ll be eating at about 5pm to accommodate people who have to eat more than one Thanksgiving dinner, today.

being an artist is a lot of asking yourself if you even are an artist

There are two ways to say it:

peh-KAHN or puh-KAHN

The other one is incorrect, that’s something you take on your fishing boat if you don’t want to go off the side.