Actors’ Theatre, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz [map]  $3 donation to Poetry Santa Cruz requested.
 

David Barber is the Poetry Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and teaches at MIT.  His first collection of poems, The Spirit Level, received the Terrence Des Pres Prize and was published by TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press.  His new collection, Wonder Cabinet is out from Northwestern University Press.  His poems have appeared in Agni, Atlantic Monthly, Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Slate, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.  He has written essays and reviews for a variety of publications including Poetry, Parnassus, Boston Review, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review.

Read David Barber’s poem “To the Trespasser” on the Academy of American Poets website.

Read his essay “Does Memory Have a Future?” on Poetry Daily.

Read about Wonder Cabinet on the Northwestern University Press website.
 

Born in 1967 in Washington, D.C., Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books).  His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002.  His second collection, The Pajamaist, was released by Copper Canyon in 2006.  His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, will be published by Coffee House in 2007.

Zapruder teaches creative writing in the MFA Writing Program at the New School in New York City, where he is the co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series.  He also teaches as a member of the permanent faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  In May/June of 2007 he will be a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, TX.

Read Matthew Zapruder’s poem “Thank You for Being You” in Electronic Poetry Review.

Read his poem “Automated Regret Machine”.
 

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

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