Nov. 14, 11am: Elixir Reading and Conversation with Chus Pato / Lectura de Elíxir y Conversación con Chus Pato: SDPA and Conversations with Poets present a special online live video interview with 2024 Spanish National Poetry Prize Winner, Chus Pato. Select readings from the 2023-24 Elixir SDPA, which features one of Chus Pato’s poems, will follow. Join Elixir Editors, Olga García and…
Category: Profiles
Profiles of local poets, writers, artists and performers.
SDPA Reading (La Jolla 7/23) & Poetry by Ameya Pandit
Saturday, July 23, 2-5 p.m.: San Diego Poetry Annual reading with special guest Jack Webb, founder and director of the Border Voices Poetry Program. Join us at the La Jolla/Riford Library, located at 7555 Draper Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037. Hosted by Seretta Martin, Managing Editor, SDPA. All authors, fans of lit arts, and poets looking to publish are…
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Playwright, poet and director
Malachi Black
Malachi Black will perform at Poetry & Art on April 12 at the San Diego Art Institute. Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by…
Jeff Walt
Poet and regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual
Lori Walkington
Professor and Revolutionary Poets Brigade poet
Michael Turner-Ortega
Teacher, poet, and Vietnam and Navy veteran
Jeeni Criscenzo
Performance poet, activist and feminist
Shadab Zeest Hashmi @ SDAI Sept. 21
Author, teacher, recipient of the San Diego Book Award and Nazim Hikmet Prize
Julie Corrales @ SDAI Sept. 21
Spoken word poet, advocate for Chicano issues
Joe Milosch @ SDAI Sept. 21
Poet and Vietnam veteran