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

Matthea Harvey’s first book, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (2000) won Alice James Books’ New York/New England prize, and her second volume, Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf Press, 2004) was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets.  Her poems have appeared in such magazines as Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, Fence, Grand Street, The Paris Review and The New Republic, among others.  Harvey was born in Bad Homburg, Germany, brought up in Milwaukee, earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  She is currently poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary and also on the staff of Bomb Magazine.  She lives in Brooklyn.

Read three poems by Matthea Harvey on Web del Sol.

Read and/or listen to eight poems on the Fishouse website.
 

Neli Moody is the author of After Altamira (Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, 2006) and a lecturer at San Jose State University.  She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Jose State in 2006.  She has been honored with the Phelan Award in 1987, 2004 and 2005, the faculty-nominated Dorrit Sibley Award in 2005 for outstanding creative achievement, the 2005 Virginia Araujo Award, administered by the Academy of American Poets, and the 2006 Marjorie Folendorf award for outstanding achievement in creative writing.  A Santa Cruz resident, Neli is a regular reader in the Monterey Bay area, has given readings in the San Francisco Bay area, and has served as Coordinator of Volunteers for Shakespeare Santa Cruz for five years. She has traveled widely, sailing, scuba diving, rock climbing and flying, and is currently at work on her second collection of poetry.

Read three poems by Neli Moody in Brick & Mortar Review.

See Neli Moody’s website.
 

This event is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.

Poetry Santa Cruz receives funding from the the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.  Some of our readers receive funding from Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also sponsored by Casablanca Inn, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, The Attic, National Writers Union Chapter 7, KUSP, the William James Association, the Museum of Art & History, and Cabrillo College.  Membership premiums have been donated by Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Coffee House Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Robert Sward and Patricia Grube.