Fighting Poems at SDPF/CODA24

SDPF24 Coda, a poetry festival
Saturday, December 14, 2024 11:00a – 5:00p
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center Price Center East 2nd floor

Free admission
All poetry enthusiasts, all readers, all writers, all community members welcome!

Fighting Poems

2:35p – 3:35p
Cross-Cultural Center Library

w/
Alissa Tu

Bara’ah Oriqat

Francesco Levato

hamsa fae

Sonia Gutiérrez

Ted Washington

Bios:
Alissa Tu (she/her) is a Vietnamese American writer from Olympia, Washington. She received her MFA in Writing from UC San Diego and debuted her experimental memoir Confessions of a Modern Day Kumiho (2023) with Blue Cactus Press. Her work plays to soak the reader into her writing.

Bara’ah Oriqat براءة عريقات (she/her) is an independent Palestinian artist who lives for a liberated Falasteen. She graduated from UC San Diego in her hometown, on indigenous Kumeyaay land,
with a degree in Communication and an emphasis in media and film production.

Francesco Levato is a poet, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. Recent books include SCARLET; Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; and Elegy for Dead Languages. He holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Studies, and is an Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

hamsa fae (she/they) is a Vietnamese-French poet and contemporary performance artist from Los Angeles. Her poetry book, Blood Frequency, was shortlisted by C&R Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in 2022. She has publications in diaCRITICS, Vănguard, new words {press}, Yale School of Environment, Fruitslice, and the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of two full-length bilingual poetry collections, Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña (Olmeca Press, 2013) and Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma (El Martillo Press, 2024), recipient of an honorable mention for the ILBA’s The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award—One Author—Bilingual, and the novel, Dreaming with Mariposas (FlowerSong Press, 2020), winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Award 2021, the International Latino Book Awards 2022, and the ILBA Book into Movie Awards 2023. She teaches composition, critical thinking and writing, and creative writing. Sonia Gutiérrez is currently working on her first illustrated book, The Adventures of a Burrito Flying Saucer and Sana Sana Colita de Rana: Poems to Not Perish / Sana sana colita de rana: Poemas para no morir, a bilingual poetry collection. She lives in the Californias.

Ted Washington is an author, artist and reluctant businessman. He is the founder of Puna Press and author of Bone Lyre released in 2023.