Len Anderson, Kathleen Flowers, Bernice Rendrick and David Allen Sullivan
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

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, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004 and Harvest from the Emerald Orchard.  He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition and the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award.  (photo by Sandra Vines Walker.)

Read three poems by Len Anderson in the May 24, 2006 Good Times.

Download (2.6 M) a page from the Fall/Winter 2006 Monterey Poetry Review including two poems by Len Anderson.

Kathleen Flowers is currently on hiatus as a bilingual educator and is spending every free moment reading and writing poetry.  Her poems have been published in The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004, Good Times, Harvest from the Emerald Orchard, Homestead Review, The Matrix, Moments in the Journey, and Porter Gulch Review.  She is a winner of the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award and is the first recipient of the In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award for her collection Call It Gladness.

Read two poems by Kathleen Flowers in Homestead Review.

Read six poems by Kathleen Flowers in Good Times.

Bernice Rendrick was born in Kansas in 1930.  She lived on a farm and attended her early grades in a one-room schoolhouse.  Much later she started her first garden in Scotts Valley and took writing classes at Cabrillo College.  She also worked on the first organic garden established there.  She has published poetry in many journals including the Porter Gulch Review, Quarry West and the Monterey Poetry Review.

Read a poem by Bernice Rendrick on the Women and Food website.

Read a poem on the Poets against the War website.

David Allen Sullivan was born in Illinois, and grew up in Vermont, with one year spent in Vienna—where his teacher, the novelist Jonathan Carroll, inspired him to write poetry (mostly bad Whitman knock-offs).  He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he edited The Chicago Literary Review, and went to graduate school at the University of California, Irvine.  His dissertation was on the ethics of address in the poems of Emily Dickinson and Killarney Clary.  He teaches English, Film, and Screenwriting at Cabrillo Community College, where he also edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students.  He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with Cherie Barkey, and their two children, Jules and Amina Barivan and is the author of Strong-Armed Angels (Hummingbird Press, 2008).

Read five poems by David Allen Sullivan from Strong-Armed Angels on the Hummingbird Press website.

Read four poems by David Allen Sullivan in Good Times.

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