Tag: San Diego Poet Laureate

  • Poetry That Sounds Like Life: Humor, Voice, and Access

    Poetry That Sounds Like Life: Humor, Voice, and Access

    Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego’s Poet Laureate, Paola Capó-García, emphasizes that humor belongs in poems, calling it a “visceral feeling,” and notes that it is not always treated as part of poetry in classrooms or conversations. She wants people to talk about a poem the…