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.