“I hope people enjoy poetry and then become poets themselves.”
Kristoddie Woods
Dallas’ third poet laureate …on expanding access to the arts, via The Dallas Morning News
Named last Wednesday at City Hall, Kristoddie Woods — known as Black Ceasar — steps into a two-year term as the city’s poetic ambassador, bringing verse into schools, libraries, and public spaces alongside youth poet laureate Cadence Diggs, a 17-year-old Booker T. Washington High School student, with a shared focus on lifting young voices.
Find Woods on TikTok, where you can weigh in on your favorite Urban Cowboy x Poet slide. The Dallas Public Library also shares an earlier performance: Black Ceasar Poetry — “The Ascension” (Texas Rangers) on YouTube.
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