Program Description
Event Details
SDPA Book Launch and Celebration featuring 2024 SDPA authors, community readers, and community leaders. All poets and fans of poetry are welcome. Email sdpoetryannual@gmail.com to sign up early or sign up in the library on the evening of the event. Instagram: @sdpoetryannual
This edition features more than 350 poems by 331 poets, including the STEVE KOWIT POETRY PRIZE 2023 honorees, plus Marge Piercy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lee Rossi, Jan Beatty, Ron Salisbury, and many of the finest poets from our region and beyond. Also featured: community outreach special sections, including the San Diego Poet Laureate, Native Poets, Poems from Juvenile Hall, and Veterans.