Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Avenue at Broadway, Santa Cruz. [map]  Free.
 

Join us for this celebration of Maude’s life and poetry presented by Patrice Vecchione and Amber Coverdale Sumrall, featuring Diane di Prima, Lillian Heritage, Stephen Kessler, Morton Marcus, Gail Meehan, Rebecca Meehan, Gael Roziere, Tilly Shaw, Claudia Sternbach, Dena Taylor, Ken Weisner and Gary Young.

Poet Maude Meehan died in her sleep August 18.  She was 86 years old and referred to herself as “the geriatric diva.”  Through her warm and vigorous presence, expressed in her friendships and workshops and poems, she was a matriarch in the finest sense—a mentor to many.  She was the author of four collections of poems: As If the World Made Sense (Many Names Press, 2003), Washing the Stones (Papier Mache Press, 1996), Before the Snow (Moving Parts Press, 1991) and Chipping Bone (Embers Press, 1985).  Poetry Santa Cruz presented Maude with an award for her contribution to our poetry community at our All Poets’ Day Celebration on January 24, 2003.
 

Photo by Dottie Jakobsen

See the collage by Patrice Vecchione for Maude Meehan.

See the obituary and article and article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Articles have also appeared in the September 13 Good Times and in the September 12 Metro Santa Cruz.
 

This event is supported by generous donations by family and friends of Maude Meehan.

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.