In celebration of National Poetry Month, URBAN-15 is hosting the annual spoken word marathon featuring San Antonio’s premiere performance poets, Mega Corazon. Celebrating a hybrid San Antonio poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles, Mega Corazón is frontal, improvisational, at times painful, and often choreographed for a highly visual impact. This year’s Mega Corazón will take place on Monday, April 5th from 10am-1pm (youth focus) and again from 6-10pm (general audience.) Mega Corazon can viewed for free online at urban15.org/live-stream.

Poets confirmed to date include: nationally-recognized poetry slam champions Amalia Ortiz, Anthony “The Poet” Flores, and Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson; National Poetry Month SA organizer Jim LaVilla-Havelin; Local San Antonio author Marisol Cortez, and many other talented San Antonio poets. A full listing will be available soon on our website at urban15.org.

All Mega Corazon segments are free of charge and can be viewed online at http://urban15.org/live-stream. Afterwards, Mega Corazon will be archived online at http://hiddenhistories.tv/archives/

We are also happy to set up interviews profiling individual performers. If interested, please contact us at (210) 736-1500 or events@urban15.org.