Part newlywed, part songstress, part mother, part Pushcart Prize nominee,
the poet Julia Alter-Canvin now resides in Venice Beach.
Her firstborn book is Walking the Hot Coal of the Heart (Hummingbird Press, 2004).
Be on the lookout for Julia’s forthcoming recordings, soothing fusions of poetry and jazz.
Poet and physicist Len Anderson is the author of
Affection for the Unknowable (Hummingbird Press, 2003). His poems have
appeared in Bellowing Ark, Caesura, DMQ Review, Good Times, Monterey Poetry Review,
The Montserrat Review, Porter Gulch Review, Quarry West, The Sand Hill Review, Sarasota
Review of Poetry, and The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004. He is a winner of the
Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition and the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award.
Virgil Banks scrabbles for poems.
Dane Cervine’s book What A Father Dreams and
recent chapbooks are available from the author at his website:
http://danecervine.typepad.com/. Over 100 of Dane’s
poems have appeared in print, including The Hudson Review, The Sun, and various anthologies.
His work was chosen by Adrienne Rich as the 2005 National Writers Union winner, and by
Tony Hoagland as a finalist for the 2005 Wabash Prize for Poetry.
Dane was the Porter Gulch Review 2005 Poet of the Year. His new book is The Jeweled Net of Indra
published by Plain View Press in 2007.
Jenny D’Angelo has been writing since her first poems
appeared on hand-made greeting cards at age 6. Born in Massachusetts, she lived and studied
in Europe before moving to California in 1977. Her work has appeared in Bellowing Ark and
Only the Sea Keeps. Her spoken word CD, Light from the Tip of the Tongue, sells
internationally and may be ordered at www.nlpu.com/Jenny.
A longtime student of spirituality, healing and light, Jenny lives in a little bungalow by the sea
with her urban chickens and their lovely blue-green eggs.
Guarionex Delgado: Long-haired brown male. 60ish.
Member of the divine creation. Nemesis of church and state and corporate power. Friend of
saints, sinners, pagans, prophets, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed. Long live the spirit of life.
Long live Coyote.
Kathleen Flowers is a bilingual educator.
Her poems have been published in The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004,
Porter Gulch Review, The Matrix, and Moments in the Journey.
She is a winner of the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award.
Robin Lysne is the author of Heart Path: Learning to Love
Yourself and Listening to Your Guides (poetry and prose, Blue Bone Books, 2007), and
Dancing Up the Moon (poetry and prose) and Living a Sacred Life (prose), both published by Conari Press.
Her poems have appeared in Porcupine, North American Review and several anthologies.
She has shared her poetry in readings such as In Celebration of the Muse, and around the San Francisco Bay Area.
She works as a substance abuse counselor for PVPSA, and is also a medium and intuitive.
Her website is: www.thecenterforthesoul.com.
Joanna Martin is the author of The Meaning of Wings (Hummingbird Press, 2003).
She received her BA in Literature and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
She has been a nurse for 19 years at Dominican Hospital, and works in Cardiac Care.
Her work has been published in Porter Gulch Review and Quarry West.
She is a winner of the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award.
Phyllis Mayfield lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
A poet for 27 years, a love poet for 14, her work has appeared in Women Artists’ Datebook,
Porter Gulch Review, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and the Poet’s Eye Artist’s Tongue art exhibit,
and she has read at In Celebration of the Muse and on KPIG radio. She hosts the monthly
Verbal Moonshine reading and is finishing her memoir, Gazebo.
Maggie Paul holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College.
Her work has appeared in Poetry Miscellany, Smartish Pace, Sarasota Review of Poetry, Rattle,
and other journals. Maggie is a co-founder of Poetry Santa Cruz.
Her chapbook, Stones from the Baskets of Others, was published by Black Dirt Press in 2002.
Stuart Presley is a poet, husband, carpenter and photographer
in search of the ineffable. He wrote his first poem at age twelve. Later poems have been
published in California and the Southwest. Currently living on the north coast of Santa Cruz
County with the love of his life, he communes with bobcats and silence.
Having fled the Kansas of her childhood, Carol Rodriguez
(formerly Housner) has explored the Oz of poetry for the past 12 years. Mother to three,
sister to four and friend to a myriad, she presently lives in Aptos with her two sons.
Because prairie sun still lives in her heart, she has recently donned her ruby slippers
again, but remains a huge fan of flying monkeys.
Joan Safajek is a retired psychotherapist and former English
teacher who lives with a Tibetan puppy called Kaimu. Her poems have been published in
The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004 and Porter Gulch Review. She is also a
recipient of the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award. Following in the footsteps of Zen poet
Ryokan, her elder life with children and grandchildren is like an old hermitage . . . simple and quiet.
Lisa Simon is a writer, teacher and singer whose love of language
was nurtured in her birthplace of Birmingham, Alabama. She holds an MFA in Writing and a BA in English.
She has read at In Celebration of the Muse and her poems have appeared in Quarry West,
Porter Gulch Review and elsewhere. She lives in Santa Cruz County with her husband and daughter.
Robin Straub lives free in the Utah high desert of the Colorado Plateau.
She is a full time plein air oil painter and a once-upon-a-time in another life poet, teacher and volunteer.
Every day she is astonished by the natural beauty and kind friends that surround her.
Philip Wagner. After all these years, still an idealist.
With wine, a philosopher. One-time documentary maker and editor of ACT in Paris. Hosted the
National Writers Union poetry reading for four years, co-produced the NWU poetry show on local television
and co-founded Poetry Santa Cruz. Teaches poetry in county mental health program. Lectures
on Mythology, Art, and Psychology. Published in
Porter Gulch Review, Quarry West, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004 and has two chapbooks,
Wild Horses Are Always in Heaven and Found Poems.
Guarionex Delgado, Kathleen Flowers and Robin Straub will be unable to join us at the reading,
but other members of the group will read poems for them.
Poetry Santa Cruz is supported, in part, by a grant from
the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
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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,
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