• Morton Marcus died Wednesday morning October 28 after a two-year struggle with renal cancer. There will be a celebration of his life this Saturday November 7, 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the new Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos.
• Rebecca Foust and Danusha Laméris.
Tuesday, November 10 at 7:30 PM, Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola. [ map ] $3 donation suggested. Presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. [ Read more about this event ]
Rebecca Foust’s book, all that gorgeous pitiless song, won the 2008 Many Mountains Moving Book Award and will be released in 2010. Two chapbooks, Dark Card (poetry about raising a son with autism) and Mom’s Canoe (poetry about people and place in western Pennsylvania) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years, and were published by Texas Review Press in 2008 and 2009. Foust’s recent poetry is forthcoming in Hudson Review, Los Angeles Review, Margie, North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, elsewhere, and has received awards and distinctions including two 2008 Pushcart nominations and International Publication Prizes from Atlanta Review in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Read poems by Rebecca Foust on her website.
Read the poem “In French”
on the Women and Food website.
Danusha Laméris’ work
has been published in Lyric, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Sun and
The Crab Orchard Review as well as in a variety of other journals. Her poems have also appeared
in the anthologies In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare and Intimate Kisses.
Her poem “The Interview” was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as an honorable mention for
Water-Stone’s Jane Kenyon Prize and last year she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She lives and writes in Santa Cruz, California.
• Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader Robin Somers.
Sunday, November 15 at 2:00 PM, Santa Cruz Main Library Meeting Room, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. [ map ] Free.
• A Woman’s Life in Pieces, written and performed by Patrice Vecchione.
Thursday, Nov. 5*, 12, 19 at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, Nov. 8, 15 at 2:00 PM, Wave Street Studios, 774 Wave Street, Monterey. [ map ]
Tickets $20 or $10 with student ID; *Nov. 5 is $35, a benefit for the YWCA’s Women’s Shelter with 6:30 reception and refreshments. Info & tickets: (831) 655-2010 or www.livenetworks.tv.
• Kat Meads and Sally Ashton. Friday November 20, 7:30 PM, Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz. [ map ] Free. [ Read more about this event. ] Presented by A New Cadence Poetry Series.
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. Some readers
receive support from the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
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 sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, the Watsonville Public Library, 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.