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Cal State San Marcos professor and poet Jason Magabo Perez, left, alongside fellow poets Bara’ah Oriqat, center, and Summer Farah, right, answer questions posed by attendees at the Poetry for Palestine event at City College, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Photo by Jordan Bell/City Times Media

Local poets perform at City College Poetry for Palestine event

Mix of original poetry, poems from recommended poets like June Jordan entertained standing-room-only campus audience
Jordan Bell, Multimedia Journalist • October 8, 2024
Mix of original poetry, poems from recommended poets like June Jordan entertained standing-room-only campus audience
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Poet Kay Ulanday Barrett tells poetry at Zoom event Liberation Shows Up on Oct. 14

Artist redefines self-identity through poetry at City World Cultures event

Poet, performer and educator shares navigating life as a disabled “Filipinx-Amerikan” transgender queer
Will Mauriz, Sports Editor • October 19, 2021
The sixth World Culture Program event of the fall semester was live-streamed on Zoom on Oct. 14 and featured an explorative poetic presentation and workshop entitled Liberation Shows Up! with Kay Ulanday Barrett.
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Laurie Ann Guerrero, Texas Poet Laureatte, reads Atlas, a poem from a current project entitled Redwork, in which each poem is also represented as an embroidery piece done in the redwork style. Zoom screenshots

Former Texas poet laureate turns ancestral knowledge into art

Laurie Ann Guerrero passionately tells her stories, and those of her ancestors, through words and other mediums
Kathryn Gray, Multimedia Journalist • April 12, 2021
For Laurie Ann Guerrero, former Texas poet laureate and current writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio, writing is like breathing.
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Dignity to Dream

Dignity to Dream: 6th Annual Social Justice Conference kicks off with poetry

Willie Perdomo, author and poet, was the first keynote speaker
Marlena Harvey, Managing Editor • March 25, 2021
“My history professor has a bad habit of looking at me when discussing slavery,” Willie Perdomo read aloud from one of his poems. “Professor, why do you keep looking at me, when discussing slavery?”
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A decade of publishing San Diego’s literary community

Kelly Mayhew’s 10 years of community building at City Works Press
Rutger Rosenborg • November 10, 2015
Kelly Mayhew's 10 years of community building at City Works Press
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