Kirk Glaser, Rosie King, C. J. Sage and Jean Vengua
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Kirk Glaser’s poetry has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Sou’Wester, Confrontation, Octavo (Alsop Review), The Caribbean Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere.  His poetry manuscript, Leaf of Ash, was a finalist for the Tampa Review Poetry Prize.  Other awards include a C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, American Academy of Poets Prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, and Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize.  Mr. Glaser teaches writing and literature at Santa Clara University.  He is currently seeking publication of a children’s novel trilogy, entitled Lefthandland, about a boy whose microscopic world is threatened by the imperial and environmentally destructive forces of the Rightlands.

Read five poems by Kirk Glaser in The Cortland Review.

Read one poem by Kirk Glaser in Bloodroot Literary Magazine.

Rosie King was born in Saginaw, Michigan.  A graduate of Wellesley College, she came west in 1966 and did her master’s degree at San Francisco State and her doctorate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz.  Her poetry was first honed as she taught beginning poets and wrote a dissertation on the poetry of H.D.  She has practiced and taught Rosen bodywork for over twenty years and lived for six years as a Zen monk at Green Gulch and Tassajara.  She makes her home, with pond, fruit trees, and garden, near the beach in Santa Cruz.  Her first collection of poems is Sweetwater, Saltwater, published by Hummingbird Press in 2007.

Read four poems from Sweetwater, Saltwater, on the Hummingbird Press website.

Read and/or hear four poems from Sweetwater, Saltwater, that Garrison Keillor read on The Writer’s Almanac: “Saturdays,” “Visitation,” “Old South School,” “Miss Shelley, Miss Hattersley, Miss Guilford....”

C. J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review and teaches poetry at De Anza College.  Her poems appear in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, POOL, Backwards City Review, etc.  Her books are Odyssea, Field Notes in Contemporary Literature, And We the Creatures, and Let’s Not Sleep.  CJ lives in Rio del Mar, California, where she is also a full-time realtor.

Read about C.J. Sage’s second collection of poems, Odyssea and two sample poems from it.

Read a poem in Ploughshares, a poem on Verse Daily and another on Verse Daily.

Check out the website of The National Poetry Review, edited by C.J. Sage.

Jean Vengua lives in Elkhorn, California.  Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, more recently Otoliths, Fugacity, Babaylan, Going Home to a Landscape, Ping-Pong, and Field of Mirrors.  Her chapbook is entitled The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths); her book of poetry, Prau (Meritage Press), was published in December, 2007. With Mark Young, she is the co-editor of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, and The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II (xPress(ed) & Meritage Press).

See the Hay(na)ku Blog for information about hay(na)ku.

Read reviews of Prau.

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