Breaking into Print
• Daniela Hurezanu and
Stephen Kessler have co-translated
Eyeseas (Les Ziaux), poems by the French novelist and poet Raymond Queneau (1903-1976).
The book is published by Black Widow Press.
• Stephen
Kessler has a new book of essays: Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation
from El Leon Literary Arts in Berkeley. Pre-publication copies are available directly
from the author through October.
• The 2008 issue of
Ping•Pong, art and literary
journal, featuring work by international writers and artists. Available for $12 now in area
bookstores. The release party was Saturday, August 9 at
Henry Miller Library.
• Rick
Masten’s last collection poems, Take 3—Not Dead Yet, is available for $33
including postage from SunInk Publications, 37931 Palo Colorado Road, Carmel, CA 93923.
• Porter Gulch Review 2008 includes poems by
Philip J. Wagner, Manuela Wehrmann, Nancy Hofmann, Adela Najarro, Ken Weisner, Julia Alter, Pam Lemke,
Dan Phillips, Jennifer Pittman, Erin Redfern, Aaron Quiggle, Andrew Walsh, Amber Coverdale Sumrall,
Lily Dayton, Carol Rodriguez, Jean Walton Wolff, Kathleen Flowers, Sylvia Bortin Patience, Jeff Towle,
Martha Clark Scala, Helene Simkin Jara, David Thorn, Joan Safajek, Zoë Cross, Winifred Baer,
Kathryn Petruccelli, Marilyn Jean, Pat Zylius, Shirley Ancheta, Robert S. Pesich, Len Anderson,
Barbara Bloom, Jo Ann Birch, Marcia Adams, Douglas McClellan, Dane Cervine, Manfred Luedge,
Jenny D’Angelo, Megan Bontrager and Joan Zimmerman. The winner of the 2008 Porter Gulch
Review Award is Zoë Cross. Porter Gulch Review is edited by the students of David Sullivan’s
English 1B class. It is available in local bookstores and from the authors represented in it.
It will also be available online as a PDF,
along with a PDF of student critiques of some of the poems.
• The next issue of
Monterey Poetry Review, edited by Nicole Henares,
is in production and will include poems by
Peter Neil Carroll, Bernice Rendrick, John Laue. Neal Whitman, Sam Salerno, Jr., Kathleen Flowers,
Gene Pare, Jose Torres, Flame, Tad Wojnicki, Jeanne Lupton, Dane Cervine, Rosalie Nelson,
Susan Freeman, Isai Ambrosio, Jennifer Lagier, Diana Garcia, Nancie M. Brown, with artwork by
Jill Fressinier and photography by Juleen Johnson.
• Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California,
editd by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young (2008, Greenhouse Review Press) includes prose poems by
local poets Alta Ifland, Stephen Kessler, Morton Marcus, Doren Robbins, Joseph Stroud, Robert Sward and Gary Young,
as well as many other fine prose poets, and essays on poetics. This anthology was featured in
the May 13 Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
• J.P. Dancing
Bear’s fourth collection and second full-size collection of poems, Conflicted Light, is available
from Salmon Poetry in Ireland.
• Bryant Clifford
not only has a book of poems and prose published,
The Monarch of Evening Time, it has been made into
a film.
• David Sullivan’s first collection of poems,
Strong-Armed Angels, has been published by Hummingbird Press.
His launch reading was February 24 and books are available in the stores.
• Kathleen Flowers received the
In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award, including publication of her chapbook Call it Gladness, at
the In Celebration of the Muse reading on March 9.
• Morton Marcus’s literary memoir,
Striking Through the Masks, 590 pp.,
is being published by Capitola Book Company and is in local bookstores.
The launch reading was March 13 in the Holy Cross Parish Hall.
Readers and performers included California poet laureate Al Young, Deng Ming-Dao, Ellen Bass, Geoffrey Dunn,
James D. Houston, Jean Wakatsuki Houston, Sandy Lydon, George Ow, Jr., Cheryl Anderson with the Cabrillo Symphonic
Chorus and Cantiamo singing two of Marcus’s poems from The Peace of Wild Things, which was performed at
Carnegie Hall last year. Articles appeared in the February 20 Metro and the March 6 Good Times.
• Kevin Opstedal’s latest books are
User’s Manual to the Pacific Coast Highway, (Seven Fingers Press, 2007) and
Rare Surf, Vol. 2, New and Used Poems, (Smog Eyes Books, 2006). Both books can be obtained
from Kevin Opstedal’s press, Blue Press,
which has published books, chapbooks, magazines and broadsides featuring work by Joanne Kyger,
Lewis MacAdams, Duncan McNaughton, Micah Ballard, and others.
• Prau by Jean Vengua (formerly Gier)
is out from Meritage Press and the winner of the
Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize.
• Stephen Kessler’s new collection of poems,
Burning Daylight, is published by Littoral Press.
This book, with letterpress cover by Lisa Rappaport, will be available by subscripton only and may be ordered directly
from the author for $20, handling and shipping included, check made out to him and mailed to: Stephen Kessler,
1612 Escalona Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. The release reading will be held January 24, 7 PM at the
West End Studio Theatre, Swift and Ingalls Streets, Santa Cruz.
• Samuel Salerno has a new chapbook,
Spirithouse, published by Lighthouse Press.
• The Summer 2007 issue of
Monterey Poetry Review is available in bookstores
and its other usual distribution locations.
• Adrienne Rich has a new collection of poems,
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006, published by W. W. Norton.
She will read at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 PM.
• Amber Coverdale Sumrall’s second collection of poems,
Refuge, is available in stores and may be ordered from Hummingbird Press.
She will read at Bookshop Santa Cruz on February 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM.
• Robert Sward
reports that his The Collected Poems and God Is in the Cracks are now both in their second printings.
• Viz. Inter-Arts, a Trans-Genre Anthology,
edited by Roxanne Power Hamilton explores and transgresses the boundaries between the arts.
This anthology features the work of over 100 artists. The book is available and events featuring
its authors are taking place arond the greater Bay Area. Learn more on the website:
http://www.viz.ucsc.edu/.
• The anthology Harvest from
the Emerald Orchard, poems by The Emerald Street Poets: Julia Alter-Canvin, Len Anderson, Virgil Banks,
Dane Cervine, Jenny D’Angelo, Guarionex Delgado, Kathleen Flowers, Robin Lysne,
Joanna Martin, Phyllis Mayfield, Maggie Paul, Stuart Presley, Carol Rodriguez,
Joan Safajek, Lisa Simon, Robin Straub and Philip Wagner is now available.
They read for Poetry Santa Cruz on September 25.
• Alta Ifland’s first collection of poems is
Voice of Ice, published by Les Figues Press in Los Angeles. She will read for Poetry Santa Cruz on November 13.
• C.J. Sage’s second collection of poems is
Oddysea, published by Turning Point.
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