Roberto F. Santiago at Radar reading Series
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2015-06-09

Roberto F. Santiago is a poet, translator, and lead singer in a solo act who produces his own music, and dances rips into his pants. Roberto received an MFA from Rutgers University, BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and is the recipient of the 2011 Alfred C. Carey Prize for Poetry. Currently, he works as College and Career Coordinator at a high school in San Francisco. All of his work, both artistically and professionally, hinges upon the goal of enhancing the representation of marginalized peoples. Linguistic and geographic travel has also greatly impacted Roberto as an artist and educator. Be it pedaling past the canals in Amsterdam or the smell of rain in rural Québec. He also writes and produces his own music, and his first full-length collection of poems, Angel Park, will be released April 2015 by Lethe Press. His poetry has been published in such anthologies/journals as Assaracus - Sibling Rivalry (2014), The Acentos Review (2014) CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action(2014), Hypothetical: A Review of Everything Imaginable(2014), and The Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep you Company - CavanKerry (2013).