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Joseph Stroud and
Susan Freeman
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Read The Potato
from Country of Light by Joseph Stroud on the Academy of American Poets website.
Read three more poems from Country of Light on the Copper Canyon Press website:
Susan Freeman moves between teaching teachers, working as an arts educator,
and her own writing. She co-directed the Central California Writing Project and its Invitational Summer Institute for eight years,
and has been on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo and Pacific Oaks Colleges. She has also has worked with The Cultural
Council of SC County and the Bay Area California Arts Project. Her poetry has appeared in Quarry West, Poets and Writers of
the Monterey Bay, The Monterey Poetry Review, 100 Poets Against the War, The Napa Review, In Celebration of the Muse, and
on-line publications. She has participated in readings in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Toronto, and Dublin, Ireland.
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Joseph Stroud has a new collection of poems
arriving this winter: Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, December 1, 2008).
His previous collections are In the Sleep of Rivers (Capra Press, 1974), Signatures (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1982),
Below Cold Mountain (Copper Canyon Press, 1998), Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2004),
and three limited-edition chapbooks. He was born in 1943 in Glendale, California and
received his BA in Literature and Philosophy in 1966 and his MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in
1968. He taught writing and literature at Cabrillo Community College for 35 years and co-hosted The Poetry Show on KUSP.
He is the recipient of the prestigious Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.
His poems have been featured on National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
He divides his time between Santa Cruz and his cabin at Shay Creek on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.
Poetry
Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
Some readers receive matching grants from Poets & Writers, Inc., through
a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors, In Celebration of the Muse, and those who donated
in memory of Maude Meehan. The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years.
Our readings are sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, The Attic, Casablanca Inn, The Santa Cruz
Museum of Art & History, Cabrillo College, KUSP and the National Writers Union Chapter 7.
Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press,
Robert Sward, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.