San Diego International Airport’s Live Poetry Experience Turns Travel Stories Into Art

Next time you pass through San Diego International Airport (SAN), your journey might become a poem! The airport’s Spring 2025 Performing Arts Resident, Poets Underground, invites travelers to share their stories at The Great Poetic Baggage Exchange—a luggage-inspired stage where conversations about travel are transformed into poetry.

A Creative Take on the Travel Experience

This interactive residency explores five themes—Adventure, Baggage, Connection, Checkpoint, and Rise—turning real traveler experiences into spoken word, written poetry, and live mural painting.

Poets Underground, a San Diego-based nonprofit, specializes in using poetry and storytelling to build inclusive communities, and now they’re bringing that creative magic to SAN.

Select poems from this residency will be featured in three live performances on May 2, 6, and 8, preserving these travel-inspired moments in an anthology that captures the poetry of movement and connection.

See you there!

📅 View the full schedule: SAN Arts Program
📍 Find the poets in the terminals through April 29
ℹ️ More info here

Whether you’re just passing through or staying a while, this is your chance to turn your travel experience into art at SAN. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage with the Spring 2025 Performing Arts Resident, Poets Underground, at The Great Poetic Baggage Exchange!

See you there, San Diego!