Sotère Torregian
Sotère Torregian: born in 1941, is an American poet of Sicilian, Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry. He is associated with the New York School of poets and painters and has taught at the Free University of New York, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University where he helped establish the Afro-American studies program in 1969. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry. He currently resides in Stockton, California.