Mike The PoeT Sonksen at Cal Poly Pomona Urban & Regional Planning

Guest speaker Mike the PoeT Sonksen at Cal Poly Pomona Urban & Regional Planning. Photo by Jonathan Pacheco Bell

On March 5, 2022, Mike the PoeT Sonksen was the guest speaker in my Advocacy Planning course at Cal Poly Pomona. He taught us about geographic literacy and the power of place. Mike opened with poems, transitioned into a vivid slide deck lecture, then led our class through two writing exercises connecting personal memory and action to planning praxis. He stayed to co-facilitate our week’s discussion of Latin@ Urbanism.

Mike bleeds LA. If you’re looking for your next guest speaker, tour guide, essayist or poet, Mike is the one.

Senior Project at Cal Poly Pomona

Infographic by Jonathan Pacheco Bell

This semester at Cal Poly Pomona Urban & Regional Planning I’m teaching URP 4620 Senior Project, Part Two. Building on research proposals developed in URP 4600A, this course is independent and student-driven. I’ll be guiding the student’s research process leading to a capstone paper, project, or design.