The iconic poetry group Voces Cósmicas, a San Antonio nonprofit, began meeting 10 years...
“We provide an outlet for any person wishing to read poetry during these dark times of global conflict, a frail democracy and an encroaching, repressive system that wants to control language,” Flores said.
The core that formed Voces include Flores, founder; Carlos Loera, technical director; Suzanne Green, a British transplant with four poetry collections; Jesus Cardona, who teaches at Incarnate Word High School; Ed Cody, a Vietnam veteran and playwright; Alicia Zavala Galvan, found that between 2012 and 2017, “the share of 18-24-year-olds who read poetry more than doubled, placing this age group above all others when it comes to poetry reading rates.”
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