• The Poetry Revision Workshop by Robin Ekiss on Saturday, December 5 is full.
• Robin Ekiss and George Lober
Tuesday, December 8 at 7:30 PM, Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
Robin Ekiss
is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for emerging women writers. Her poems
and prose have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, APR, POETRY, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review,
New England Review, Black Warrior Review, VQR, and elsewhere. She has received grants, awards, and
scholarships from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference,
and residencies from The MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her
first book of poems, The Mansion of Happiness, is published by University of Georgia Press VQR Poetry Series in November, 2009.
Read a poem by Robin Ekiss in Poetry.
Read a poem by Robin Ekiss on Poetry Daily, December 1, 2009.
Read two poems in Blackbird: “Meanwhile Under the Shade Palms” and “The Lady Vanishes.”
Read four poems
from A Bridge to There on the Hummingbird Press website.
George Lober
teaches English at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts
in English from San José State and his Master of Arts in English from Fresno State. His collections
of poetry are A Bridge to There (Hummingbird Press, 2009) and Shift of Light (Hummingbird Press, 2002).
His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and journals and has been awarded the
Ruth Cable Memorial Prize for Poetry. He lives in Carmel, California.
• Poet/Speak Open Reading with no featured reader, all open reading.
Sunday, December 27 at 2:00 PM, Santa Cruz Main Library Meeting Room, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. [ map ] Free.
• Michelle Bautista and Nicole Mauro. Saturday, December 12, 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.