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Dobby Gibson and Matt Hart
Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Dobby Gibson was born in 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1997.  His first book of poetry, Polar, won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award.  His second collection of poetry is Skirmish (Graywolf, 2009).

His poetry has appeared in many publications including Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, Conduit, and jubilat.  He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation.  He currently lives in Minneapolis.

See a review by Marianne Combs of Minnesota Public Radio (aired on NPR on All Things Considered) of Skirmish by Dobby Gibson.

See the page for Skirmish on the Graywolf Press website.

Matt Hart was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1969. He studied philosophy at Ball State and Ohio universities before receiving his MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.  His first book is Who’s Who Vivid, published by Slope Editions in 2006.  He is also author of the chapbooks Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006) and Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005).  His work has appeared in numerous journals, and he has been awarded fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.  A 20-year veteran of the punk rock music scene, he is co-founder and editor of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety and managing editor of Incliner, the student-run arts journal based at Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he teaches.

Read three poems by Matt Hart in the Konundrum Engine Literary Review.

Read an interview of Matt Hart by Laura McCullough in Small Spiral Notebook.



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 supported 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.


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