Is there an API for drawing static text? I don't want to create new PWidgetTextDynamic objects for everything that my code draws on screen since there does not seem to be a way to destroy them; I'd really like something closer to printf() or even puts() that takes an X/Y coordinate and a font description and renders the text there.

Unfortunately that is the only method for drawing text in the current SDK. There is also a built in printf() but outputs text to the screen as if it were a console. You can define a global PWidgetTextDynamic object and re-init/re-render it with different text, fonts, colors instead of creating a new one each time.