San Diego Poetry Annual will be published March 1

RAINBOW – With 242 poets and 329 poems, the 2015-16 San Diego Poetry Annual marks the 10th anniversary of the annual and features new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Marge Piercy, Steve McDonald, Diane Wakoski, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Ron Salisbury, Judy Reeves, and the finest poets in the region.

Special sections include poems from juvenile hall, poems by veterans and native poets. A companion volume, Frontera - Border Corpus, of an additional 42 bilingual poems written in Spanish, by 65 poets and translators, completes the two-volume annual.

Published by Garden Oak Press in Rainbow, the annual was created by award-winning novelist and poet William Harry Harding. San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild, a local 501(c)(3) arts non-profit, together with San Diego State University and Southwestern College, partnered to help produce the 2015-16 edition.

Copies will be available online from Amazon.com.

The San Diego Poetry Annual is part of the permanent collections of every college and university library in the county, the San Diego County and City library systems and the libraries of independent cities throughout the region.

For more information, visit www.sandiegopoetryannual.com.