• Poetry Revision Workshop by Robin Ekiss at a private residence in Santa Cruz, west side.
Saturday, December 5, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Cost: $40, Lunch Included. Limited to 10 participants. Advance registration and payment required. To reserve a place, call Len Anderson at (831) 464-8983 or Email: lenand@cruzio.com.
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Robin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers, and author of the book, The Mansion of Happiness (University of Georgia Press, VQR Poetry Series, November 2009). She has a Master’s in English and Creative Writing from UC Davis, and teaches creative writing through Stanford Continuing Studies. A recipient of grants, awards, and residencies from the Barbara Deming/Money for Women Foundation, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Millay Colony for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, and Headlands Center for the Arts, her work is forthcoming or has appeared widely, in The Atlantic Monthly, POETRY, APR, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and elsewhere.
So you’ve written a poem. Now what? The real hard work begins: revising for sound, sense, syntax, style, and strength. In this hands-on, one-day intensive workshop, participants will learn practical approaches to revision, using famous “case studies” and each other’s poems as working models. Through peer critique, constructive feedback, and writing exercises designed to focus and motivate your creative process, we’ll experiment with existing poems and explore new variations in our work. Students should bring two copies for each of us of a poem they’re looking to revise and are willing to share with the group.
Cost: $40, Lunch Included. Limited to 10 participants. Advance registration and payment required. To reserve a place, call Len Anderson at (831) 464-8983. Email: lenand@cruzio.com. Checks made out to Poetry Santa Cruz should be mailed to the address below. Call first to make sure there is room. Then send in your check to hold your place.
Poetry Santa Cruz
PO Box 259
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0259
• Robin Ekiss and George Lober.
Tuesday, December 8 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 ]
• A Woman’s Life in Pieces, written and performed by Patrice Vecchione.
Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 PM 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.