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Cecilia Woloch and
Jeff Tagami
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Prize-winning poet Cecilia Woloch
is the author of four award-winning collections of poems, most recently Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press 2006
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Carpathia, newly available from BOA Editions Ltd., is her fifth book.
Her previous books of poems are Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem;
and Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004. She is currently a lecturer
in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California, as well as the founding director
of The Paris Poetry Workshop. She spends a part of each year traveling, and in recent years has divided
her time between Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Shepherdsville, Kentucky; Paris, France; and
a small village in the Carpathian mountains of southeastern Poland.
Read a poem by Cecilia Woloch in the Cortland Review. Read a poem by Cecilia Woloch in Ted Kooser’s column American Life in Poetry. Read a Cecilia Woloch poem and interview Diane Lockward’s Blogalicious. Read on The Poetry Foundation Website a review
by Barbara Jane Reyes of Jeff Tagami’s October Light.
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This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
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Jeff Tagami is the author of October Light,
a collection of poetry, and has co-edited four anthologies, including Without Names: A Bay Area Filipino
American Poetry Collection (Kearny Street Press) and Poets and Writers of the Monterey Bay (Quarry West).
His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Breaking Silence and The
Open Boat. He is one of sixty American poets featured in the P.B.S. film The United States of Poetry.
He has been invited to read his work by The Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Society of America.
He is co-founder of the Bay Area Pilipino American Writers group and is a charter member of Kearny Street
Workshop, San Francisco. He was born in Watsonville, lived 15 years in San Francisco, has returned home,
and now lives in Santa Cruz and teaches at Cabrillo College.
Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from the