KPBS San Diego Book Festival, Aug. 22, SDPA @ Booth #20, Poetry Panel and Main Stage

August 22, 10am–4pm @ USD: SDPA will have booth #20 at KPBS San Diego Book Festival @ USD, and we will have poets on the main stage, Blas Falconer, Katie Manning, Ana Carrete, and Michael Klam at 2:30 on the dot. Please see poet bios and links below. At 10:30am, Michael Klam will be in a panel with Kazim Ali, author of The Man in 119, and Elizabeth Metzger, author of The Going is Forever. Panel Time: 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. PT. Location: KIPJ Section C & D. Book Sales & Signing: The Book Catapult.

Links and bios:

Poetry panel, Kazim Ali, Elizabeth Metzger, and Michael Klam at 10:30, KIPJ Section C & D:

Main stage poets @ 2:30:

Blas Falconer is the author of Rara Avis (Four Way Books 2024), winner of the Thom Gunn Award; Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018); The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012);  A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007);  and The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006).  He is also a co-editor for The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and Mentor & Muse:  Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.

Katie Manning is the founding editor of Whale Road Review and a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University. Winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for Tasty Other, she’s the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Hereverent (Agape Editions, 2023) and How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press, 2022). Her writing has been featured with Poetry Unbound, Tangle News, Verse Daily, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and many other venues. Find her online at katiemanningpoet.com.

Ana Carrete lives in San Diego but has spent much of her life in Tijuana with family. She is a bilingual poet, a video-making, online-lit-mag-editing 21st-century poet. Her poems are blunt but subtle, playful but serious. Her latest collection is Blush & Blink (Lang Books, 2023). Instagram: @ana__carrete.

Michael Klam is associate publisher of the San Diego Poetry Annual. He is editor-in-chief of the bilingual edition of SDPA. Klam hosts San Diego Central Library’s Conversations with Poets. His books include Anything for a Dull Moment (Garden Oak Press: 2020), and The Cheapest Flight to Paradise (Puna Press: 2017). His latest is Stay There (Garden Oak Press: 2026). @sdpoetryannual

September, SDPA at La Jolla Library: