Tuesday, July 11 at 7:30 PM:  Kevin Boyle and Hermie Medley

At Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 donation to Poetry Santa Cruz requested.

Kevin Boyle was born and grew up in Philadelphia, receiving his BA from the University of Pennsylvania.  He attended graduate school at Boston University and the University of Iowa.  He lived in Spain for a year, and has taught, through Elon University, in London and in Ireland.  His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including The Greensboro Review (which awarded him the Greensboro Review Poetry Prize), Alaska Quarterly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Northwest Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East and Virginia Quarterly Review.  His chapbook, The Lullaby of History, won the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Prize and was published in 2002.  His collection, A Home for Wayward Girls, won the New Issues Poetry Prize and came out in 2005.  Boyle teaches at Elon University in North Carolina where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Read three poems by Kevin Boyle in storySouth.

Read a poem in Blackbird.
 

Hermie Medley isn’t sure which she enjoys more—writing poetry or spending time with her two great grandchildren.  She graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, in 1942 but spent most of her working years as a special education teacher.  She has read in the Celebration of the Muse for the last three years, has been published in Porter Gulch Review and The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004, as well as in several magazines.  Her second book of poetry is scheduled to come out in the fall.
 
 
 

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
 

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