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Eva Salzman and Patti Sirens
Tuesday, August 11 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Eva Salzman, a native New Yorker, has been living in Britain since 1985, where she is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Ruskin College, Oxford.  Her writing includes poetry, fiction, essays and opera, including a libretto, Cassandra, written for her composer father, Eric Salzman.  She has taught in schools, community centers and prisons, and read her work frequently on BBC Radio and the Worldservice.  Her books of poetry are Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004), Bargain with the Watchman (Oxford University Press, 1997) and The English Earthquake (Bloodaxe, 1992).

See Eva Salzman’s website.

Read two poems in Salt Magazine and a poem on Verse Daily.

Read an interview on writewords.org.uk.

Patti Sirens has had a lifelong love affair with the ocean, she’s an avid boogie boarder, a deejay, and a certified animal massage therapist.  She is working on her second book of poetry and hopes to one day visit Borneo.  Her poetry has won prizes in the Artists’ Embassy International Dancing Poetry Contest, National Writers Union Poetry Contest, and the Virginia Poetry Society Contest.  Her first collection of poems, Antarctica, was published by Burning Bush Publications in 2000.  She lives in Santa Cruz.



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 and Kathleen Flowers.  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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