Across the Genres: A Reading

Date: Monday, 12/16

Event Schedule: Cookies at 6:30, Reading starts at 7:00pm

Location: 

Mid-City Church of the Nazarene

4101 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92105

Headliners: 

Fiction: Kevin Kearney

Poetry: Daniela Sow

Nonfiction: Marco Wilkinson

Student Readers:

Alexis Bullock, Ella Hachee, Rebecca Li, Nadeen Maida, Jane Naranjo, Allis Nash, Alan Parmeter, Sarah Southern, Anna Wang, Emma Weber, Rachel Henderson

SDPF24 Coda, a poetry festival
Saturday, December 14, 2024
11:00am-5:00pm
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center

Session Title: Enlaces and Linked Verse: A Conversation in Poems
Session Time: 1:30-2:30
Location: CCC > Library

Dr. Adrián Arancibia is a longtime educator, critic, and author. He has worked as a teacher in all levels of education from elementary to graduate school. An immigrant from Iquique, Chile, he holds a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from U.C. San Diego. Dr. Arancibia has been a member of numerous artists organizations and literacy groups. He has worked as an educator for nearly 30 years and currently teaches English Composition, Chicano Studies, and Creative Writing at Miramar College.

Brandon Som is a Chicano and Chinese American poet. His poetry collection Tripas was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His previous collection The Tribute Horse won the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He teaches at UC San Diego.

Daniela Paraguya Sow was born in New York City and raised in the Philippines and in Southern California. She is an English instructor at Grossmont College. Her writing has appeared in The Plentitudes Journal, The Hyacinth Review, and elsewhere. Half Moon Rising, her debut poetry collection, was published in May 2024 (Kelsay Books). Website: danielasow.com.

Katie Manning is the editor of Whale Road Review and a professor at PLNU. Winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, she’s the author of eight collections, most recently Hereverent (Agape Editions, 2023). Her writing’s been featured at Poetry Unbound, Tangle News, Verse Daily, The SDU-T, and elsewhere.

Ron Salisbury is the inaugural Poet Laureate of San Diego 2020-2021. Ron has taught poetry for the past forty years. He is the author of Miss Desert Inn, winner of the 2015 Main Street Rag Poetry Prize, and Please Write And Tell Me What I Looked Like When You Met Me, published by Wholon in 2023. Ron teaches the Certificate in Poetry for San Diego Writers, Ink.

WOMAN-POWERED Book Launch + Book Fair @ Mingei Museum!

More details at:
https://bit.ly/Woman-Powered

ABOUT THE EVENT: San Diego Writers Festival (SDWF) in partnership with the Community Mondays program at the Mingei Museum is proud to present an evening of joyful celebration and inspiration, honoring the creative contributions of San Diego's women authors. The event includes the book launch and presentation of POWER POINT by Jane Muschenetz, SDWF's 2024 Poetry Collection of the Year Winner, and a lively book fair featuring the works of local powerhouse women authors and women-powered literary organizations.

Book Fair Participants (Individuals): Ari Honarvar, Daniela Sow, Deana Sobel Lederman, Deborah Allbritain, Holly Kammier, Janice Alper, Judy Reeves, Karla Cordero, Katie Kemple, Katie Manning, Kristen Fogle, Leslie Ferguson, Marni Freedman, Michele Bigley, Nicole Lewis, Sandra Yeaman, Seretta Martin, Tania Pryputniewicz, Zoe Ghahremani, and more!

Book Fair Participants (Organizations) Include: San Diego Writers Festival; International Memoir Writers Association; Women Who Submit Lit; San Diego Writers, Ink; San Diego Writers and Editors Guild; San Diego Poetry Annual; Colibrí Writers; Whale Road Review; Acorn Publishing; and Wandering Words!

Poetry by Ella DeCastro Baron, Jason Magabo Perez, J. Derilo, & Karen Marie Maliwat Villa

San Diego Public Library

University Heights Branch

Prof. Carolina Hotchandani’s

Autobiographical Writing Class

University of Omaha, Nebraska

Reading and Talk: via Zoom

Thurs., October 10, 2pm, Griffin Gate (Building 60, outside southwest corner)

grossmont.edu/frs

Two student poets will feature as opening readers for Daniela Sow's reading: Kassandra Reyes and Artrice Bennett

KASSANDRA REYES was born in Encinitas, California, raised up and down San Diego and North County. She writes passionately about what it means to be a Mexican-American, proudly embracing her roots from Oaxaca and Michoacán Mexico. Majoring in English to become a teacher, she advocates for the youth and children in poverty, prejudice, and disabilities.

ARTRICE BENNETT is a poet and lover of literature with a weakness for coffee and the color of burnt clay. She graduated from Grossmont College before studying English at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University, where she is a Prebys Creative Writing Scholar. Her work is published in Crab Apple Literary, Tiny Spoon, and The Hyacinth Review.

Join us for this virtual reading event, featuring poetry from recently published collections by Daniela Paraguya Sow, Patricia Caspers, and Annie Stenzel. This event is hosted by: Sonia Greenfield.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://minnstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEofuyqqzMuGNETYMS1qJvW4deVxaxc6-Ku

Annie Stenzel (she/her) is a lesbian poet who was born in Illinois, but did not stay put. Her second full-length collection, Don’t misplace the moon, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in July, 2024. Her earlier book was The First Home Air After Absence (Big Table Publishing, 2017). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in print and online journals in the U.S. and the U.K., including Atlas and Alice, Chestnut Review, Galway Review, Kestrel, Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, Saranac Review, Scapegoat Review, SoFloPoJo, SWWIM, The Lake, Thimble, and UCity Review. A poetry editor for the online journals Right Hand Pointing and West Trestle Review, she lives on unceded Ohlone land within walking distance of the San Francisco Bay, and pays a voluntary monthly land tax to help restore Indigenous life.

Patricia Caspers is an award-winning columnist, journalist, and poet. Caspers’ work has been published widely, and in 2017 California Newspapers Association named her the best columnist and best education reporter in the state. Caspers won the Nimrod-Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize Poetry and has published three full-length collections: The Most Kissed Woman in the World (Kelsay Books, 2024), Some Flawed Magic (Kelsay Books, 2021) and In the Belly of the Albatross (Glass Lyre Press, 2015). She is the founding editor-in-chief of West Trestle Review and hosts the monthly literary reading series and open mic, Silver Tongue Saturdays in Auburn, California. Caspers graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, with an MFA in creative writing. She is a Unitarian Universalist. Follow her on Twitter @patriciacaspers, Instagram @patriciacasperswriter or Facebook @patriciacasperspoet. 

Come celebrate the 4th Annual Filipino American Friendship Festival at NTC Park Liberty Station, 2455 Cushing Dr on July 13th, 2024, 11am-6pm.

Bring your family, friends and a lawn chair! It's a FREE family friendly event!

We will also feature Filipino small businesses, food vendors, Karaoke Korner, LIVE entertainment, Filipino book authors, Duty to Country, arts and culture, kids workshops, Plumeria 101, a volleyball tournament, and so much more!

FREE parking along Cushing Drive and is easily accessible!

From Rosecrans Ave., turn left on Womble Rd, left on Cushing Rd.

From Harbor Drive, turn right on Laning Rd, right on Cushing Rd.

Join us for this anthology reading event! Hear contributors read. Featured reader: Daniela Paraguya Sow. Open mic to follow.

Hosted by Manuel Paul Lopez and the editorial team of San Diego City Works Journal.

Location: Black Box Theater at San Diego City College (located in downtown San Diego)

Unboxing: a trend where folks film themselves opening packages to unveil products (tech, gadgets, collectibles, must-haves). These storytellers are unboxing their ancient, transgenerational, quirky, spectral, animist, realest real selves. Checking/unchecking boxes of identity, feeling boxed in (a coffin)...breaking out, balikbayan, bikini area, resisting boxes.

Unboxed stories & more by: Michelle DeLiso, Jenn Derilo, Vex Kaztro, Oceana Sawyer, Daniela Sow, Cam Whelr & S.D. Mesa College Kapwa Scholars.

Salo-Salo: "Unboxing" (virtual storytelling!)

For Zoom Link, email: ella.storyteller@gmail.com (registration link in comments)

Join us on Zoom for a captivating spoken word event that will ignite your senses and leave you inspired as we raise money for Doctors Without Borders. Featured readers: Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Daniela Paraguya Sow, Deema K. Shehabi, and Azriel Almera.

Service learning/Honors project for English 249 B Intro to Creative Writing.

Coordinated and hosted by: English instructor Pegah Motaleb and student Safir Santiago.

http://tinyurl.com/PoetryPalestine

April 8, 6:30-8:00, SDPA Book Launch and Celebration featuring 2024 SDPA authors, community readers, and community leaders, Point Loma Library, 3701 Voltaire St, San Diego, CA 92107, SDPA Book Launch and Celebration featuring 2024 SDPA authors, community readers, and community leaders.

Daniela Sow will be reading her poem entitled “When the Smoky Skies Shift”

Join current and former San Diego Poetry Annual authors and editors! Featured SDP readers will be followed by a community open mic. Bring a poem to share and/or grab a seat to hear work by renowned poets Kazim Ali, Carly DeMento, Reg E. Gaines, Margarita Pintado, Katie Manning, Ted Washington, Daniela Sow, SDPA bilingual edition editor Olga Garcia, and inaugural San Diego Poet Laureate Ron Salisbury. Hosted by SDPA execs Michael Klam and Jane Muschenetz.

Location: Multi-purpose room, Bldg 400 || Coronado Public Library  640 Orange Ave. Coronado, CA 92118

San Diego Writers Festival website (click here)