• Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader Nancy Gauquier
Sunday, May 11, 2:00 PM, Santa Cruz Main Library Meeting Room, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. Free. [map]
• Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California with Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Morton Marcus, Robert Sward, Stephen Kessler, Alta Ifland, Doren Robbins, Diane Franks, Ana Delgadillo and Eliot Schain
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young, and published by Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions includes prose poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Morton Marcus, Czeslaw Milosz, Luis Omar Salinas, David St. John, Joseph Stroud, Amy Uyematsu, Diane Wakoski, Charles Wright, and Al Young. It also includes twenty-two essays from poets, including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Mark Jarman, Diane Wakoski, Charles Harper Webb.
Christopher Buckley was recently awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007-2008, has won four Pushcart prizes and received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review. Buckley’s latest book And the Sea is available from The Sheep Meadow Press. His fifteenth and sixteenth books of poetry, Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007 (Tupelo Press) and Rolling the Bones (Eastern University Press) will be published in early 2008. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California at Irvine.
Gary Young’s multi-faceted role as an artist includes poet, book artist,
teacher and editor. His books include Hands, The Dream of a Moral Life, Days, Braver Deeds, the
winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, No Other Life, which won the William Carlos Williams Award, and his latest book,
Pleasure, available from Heyday Press. His poems have appeared in publications such as
The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review. Young has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
won the Pushcart Prize and was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
His print work has been showcased in the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Center for the Arts. He is the editor of the
Greenhouse Review Press, teaches poetry at the University of California at Santa Cruz and teaches poetry
and book arts at Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School.
• 15th Annual High School Poetry Competition Reading, Awards Ceremony and Celebration of the Anthology.
Tuesday May 20, 7:00 PM, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, 809-H Bay Avenue, Capitola. Free. Presented by Poetry Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. [map] [Read more about this event.]
• Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax.
Tuesday May 28, 7:30 PM, Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz Free. Presented by A New Cadence Poetry Series.
