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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM:
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
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Visit John Balaban’s website.
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John Balaban’s page on the Blue Flower Arts website.
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Amber Coverdale Sumrall’s second
collection of poems is Refuge (2007, Hummingbird Press). She was born in California and has
lived in Santa Cruz County since 1972. She has edited or co-edited thirteen anthologies
including, most recently, Still Heart: Reflections from The Hermitage and
Storming Heaven’s Gate: Spiritual Writings by Women. She leads Write to the Heart workshops:
journal, poetry, and editing, and writing retreats at The Hermitage in Big Sur,
St. Francis Retreat in San Juan Bautista, Mission San Antonio in Jolon and in Ireland.
For twenty years she has co-produced In Celebration of the Muse, an annual literary event
featuring Santa Cruz women writers. Her first book of poems, Litany of Wings, was
published in 1998 by Many Names Press. She spends much of her time watching, listening to,
and feeding the dozens of birds that frequent her creekside home in Soquel.
Visit Amber Coverdale Sumrall’s website. See the page for Refuge and five poems from Refuge on the Hummingbird Press website. | |
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Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from
the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
Some 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, Robert Sward and Patricia Grube. | |
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John Balaban is the author of
twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of
American Poets’ Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the
National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998
William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He was named the 2001-2004
National Artist for the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In 2003, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
His most recent books are Path, Crooked Path (2006, Copper Canyon Press), Remembering Heaven’s
Face: A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam (2002, University of Georgia Press), and
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong (translation, 2000, Copper Canyon Press)
In addition to writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, he is a translator of Vietnamese poetry,
and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. Balaban is
Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.