Robert Bly

• Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 7:30 pm
  The Attic, 931 Pacific Avenue, 2nd floor, Santa Cruz. An elevator is available. [map]

• Please note the date, which has been changed since an earlier flyer and posting on this website.
• Tickets $10.
• THIS READING IS NOW SOLD OUT.
• The Attic will close the day of the reading at 4:00 for setup and reopen at 5:45 for dinner and beverages.
  At 6:30 we will open for seating of those with tickets, Will Call, and sale of any remaining tickets.
 

As a poet, editor, and translator, Robert Bly has had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry.  He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, numerous collections of translations, and several books of nonfiction. His latest are My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (HarperCollins, 2005) and The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations (HarperCollins, 2004).

The reading will include accompaniment by Marcus Wise on tabla and Bruce Hamm on sarod.

Read Robert Bly's biography page on his personal website.

See photos taken by Bill Roberts at the 2006 reading.

Robert’s 80th birthday was celebrated in December at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

The University of Minnesota has bought Robert Bly's collection of manuscripts and letters, which includes more than 80,000 handwritten pieces.

Coleman Barks and Robert Bly were honored in Tehran in 2006 for bringing Rumi's poetry to the West.

Listen to an interview heard on NPR in 2005.

Read an article by Chris Watson about Robert Bly in the Santa Cruz Sentinel at the time of the 2006 reading.

This event is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.  This event is supported by a grant from Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
 

Poetry Santa Cruz receives funding from the the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County and Poets & Writers, Inc., and is sponsored by the Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Cafe, The Attic, Casablanca Inn, the Museum of Art & History, the National Writers Union Local 7, KUSP, Cabrillo College and the William James Association.  Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Patricia Grube, Coffee House Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.