Paola Capó-García: Poet Laureate on Humor Intimacy and Voice in Poetry
About this episode
Paola Capó-García discusses the accessibility of poetry through humor and lived experiences, and her role as a poet laureate in promoting public engagement with the arts.
Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García explores how graduate study, mentorship, and workshops shape her writing and sense of voice. Capó-García describes building poems through experimentation, including physically cutting and rearranging pages, and links her work to family stories and identity. As poet laureate, she focuses on widening access through public readings, workshops, and multidisciplinary projects that mix poetry with visual art, zines, music, and experimental short films. She also advocates teaching beyond a narrow canon so more students can hear themselves in poems and view arts and humanities training as a foundation for communication skills. Series: "Education Channel" [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 41024]
People in this episode
Guest: Paola Capó-García
Topics covered
- poetry
- humor
- identity
- mentorship
- public readings
- access to arts
Keywords
- poetry
- humor
- voice
- identity
- mentorship
- public readings
- experimental poetry
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: San Diego Poet Laureate, Education Channel, UCTV
More episodes of Education Channel (Audio)
- Extreme Events in California’s Changing Climate
- Engineer Turned Restaurateur: Cris Liang’s Journey
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Mobile Mental Health for Students: Triton CORE
- The Great Philosophers: Augustine
- The History of Food: The Universalization of Regional Food Practices
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Education Channel (Audio) podcast page.