Breaking into Print: Poetry Books by Local Authors
• Dahlia Seroussi is the author of What I Know
from Finishing Line Press now available for prepublication purchase ordering.
• Lisa Allen Ortiz’s second chapbook is Self Portrait as a Clock
from Finishing Line Press and is now available for prepublication purchase ordering.
• Helene Simkin Jara has published her first book, Because I Had To,
a collection of award-winning short stories, poems, monologues and plays. Available
from Amazon.com.
• Joanna Martin’s second book of poetry is Where Stars Begin
available from Hummingbird Press. The release reading as held
March 16 at the Cabrillo Horticulture Center.
• Stephen Kessler has two new books out. Scratch Pegasus is the ninth
collection of his own poems and is published by Swan Scythe Press. Poems of Consummation is a collection of
his translations of poems by the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre and is published by Black Widow Press.
• Dane Cervine’s new book of poetry is How Therapists Dance
from Plain View Press.
• Anna Citrino is the author of Saudade
from Finishing Line Press and is now available for prepublication purchase ordering.
• Peggy Heinrich’s seventh book of poetry is Forward Moving Shadows: A Tanka Memoir
with photographs by John Bolivar. Available from iUniverse and the author.
• Michael Wolfe is the translator for Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
with a foreword by Richard P. Martin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He read at the Gabriella Cafe Monthly Literary Salon
on December 4 and brought his surprising tale of the oldest artful writing in the Western world to the annual Northern California
Phi Beta Kappa symposium at Asilomar in the opening presentation on Friday, February 15.
See reviews in Poetry and
The Arts Fuse.
• Lynika Cruz is the author of the chapbook If We Never Went Home, being published in December 2012
by Finishing Line Press and may be ordered now. Early orders are encouraged since orders help determine the size of the printing.
Her memoir Beggars CAN Be Choosers was published by Global Publishing in August 2012.
• C. J. Sage’s latest book is Open House.
• Patrice Vecchione’s book The Knot Untied, is available
at Bookshop Santa Cruz and through the book’s website www.theknotuntied.net.
The website also includes an extensive list of the author events,
including a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz on April 2.
• Nick Herbert is the author of Harlot Nature, 2012, Sea Creature Press.
• J.P. Dancing Bear’s latest book, The Abandoned Eye (FutureCycle Press, 2012) is available online at
Amazon.com.
• Frances Hatfield is the author of Rudiments of Flight, available now from Wings Press.
• John Laue’s latest chapbook is Shadows, published in January 2013 by
Finishing Line Press. Also, his book Colma (City of the Dead/ Elegy for Skeptics)
was reissued in February in a new augmented edition with photos he took of that cemetery city (Futurecycle Press, 2013).
Word Gains, a chapbook of 3-line, 5-7-5 syllable European and American poems he calls Highkus (not haikus) is
due out in April from a publisher in Taiwan. (His chapbook A Confluence of Voices was published in 2012,
by Finishing Line Press.
An interview with him and a selection of poems from A Confluence of Voices is featured in the newest issue of
The Seventh Quarry, an international journal out of Swansea, Wales (available by purchasing the issue).
His books are available at Bookshop Santa Cruz and Capitola Book Café.
• Joan Safajek’s collection of poems is In Deep Time, published in 2012.
She passed away on November 10, 2012.
• James Maughn’s third collection, These Peripheries, is now published in 2012
by Otoliths Books in Australia.
• Peter Nash is the winner of the 2011 Off The Grid Press Award for Poets Over 60.
His collection Coyote Bush: Poems From the Lost Coast was published in 2012, available from Off The Grid Press.
He will read on August 18 at 5:30 pm in Felix Kulpa Gallery.
• Erica Goss is the winner of the 2011 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Contest.
Her chapbook Wild Place was published in 2012, available from Finishing Line Press.
She was interviewed by Dennis Morton on The Poetry Show on Sunday, August 5. The show may be heard or downloaded at The Poetry Show Blog.
She read with Catherine Barnett at 7:30 pm on August 14 at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
• David Sullivan’s book of poems in multiple voices about the Iraq war
is Every Seed of the Pomegranate, published by Tebot Bach, June 2012. The Publication Celebration Reading
was held July 15 in the Cabrillo College Horticulture Center.
• Gary Young’s latest book of poems
is Even So: New and Selected Poems, published by White Pine Press, 2012. The celebration reading
was held April 11 in Bookshop Santa Cruz and Gary will read for Poetry Santa Cruz on .
• J.P. Dancing Bear’s Family of Marsupial Centaurs and other birthday poems (Iris Press, April 6, 2012)
is available online from B&N and Amazon. Book description: Family of Marsupial Centaurs and other birthday poems is a collection
of 80 poems written as part of the 1408 pieces that comprised J.P. Dancing Bear’s Birthday Poems Project on Facebook.
The works are an homage, partially ekphrastic and often time using quotes and other facts found on the honoree’s Facebook wall.
Common themes in the book are cycles, renewal, retrospection, and outlook, thus moving beyond being poems merely written to
individuals but poems written to everyone with a birthday.
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