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• 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.”


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.

Read four poems from A Bridge to There on the Hummingbird Press website.

 
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.


Events Co-sponsored by Poetry Santa Cruz
 
 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.

Looking Ahead
 
Flor y Canto / Flower and Song Open Mic Reading with featured reader to be announced.
The featured reader will read her or his own poems followed by an open mic where all are invited to read their own poetry or that of others.  Five minute time limit, with a first come/first served sign-up sheet for the open mic.  All are welcome.  Please join us and celebrate poetry at this free event!  Presented by Poetry Santa Cruz and the Watsonville Public Library, hosted by Adela Najarro.
Thursday, January 7 at 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Watsonville Main Library, Suite 100, 2nd floor Meeting Room, 275 Main St.  [ map ]
Flor y Canto / Flower and Song Lectura de Poesía con micrófono abierto.  Lectora especial.  El lectora especial leerá sus propios poemas.  Se les invita a una noche en donde podrán leer su propia poesía o la de otros.  Habrá un límite de cinco minutos, según el orden en que se inscriban para el micrófono abierto.  Todos están invitados. ¡Acompáñenos a celebrar la poesía en este acontecimiento gratis!  Presentado por Poesía Santa Cruz y la Biblioteca Pública Watsonville, dirigido por Adela Najarro.  Gratis.
jueves, 7 de enero de 6:00 a 8:00 PM, Biblioteca Pública Watsonville, 275 Main St., Suite 100, Sala de Reuniones, segundo piso  [ mapa ]
 
James Scully and Adrienne Rich.
Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30 PM, Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola.  [ map ]  $3 donation suggested.  Presented by Poetry Santa Cruz.
 
Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader to be announced.
Sunday, January 17 at 2:00 PM, Santa Cruz Main Library Meeting Room, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz.  [ map ]  Free.

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The December 8 reading is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.

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.

 


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