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

Michael Hannon was born in Los Angeles in 1939.  After high school, he served in the Air Force for four years.  He published his first book of poems in 1972 and has authored more than fifteen poetry books, including three full-length collections: Poems & Days (Isis Press, 1986), Ordinary Messengers (Floating Island, 1991), and Trusting Oblivion (if publishing, 2002).  He lives in Los Osos, California.  Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work, “A very good poet indeed, and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.”

Read a generous selection of Michael Hannon poems on the ForPoetry website.

Patrice Vecchione is the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within and a book of poems, Territory of Wind.  For over thirty years, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to adults and children through her program The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.  The editor of many collections for adults, young adults and children, she’s been called “a master of anthology.”  Her newest book, Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems, has been nominated as one of the best books of the year by The American Library Association.

Visit Patrice Vecchione’s website.
 

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

Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.

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.