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in the 2nd Annual Maude Meehan Memorial Poetry Reading reading from her own work. Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 7:30 PM in the Cabrillo Music Recital Hall VAPA 5001, Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos 95003. [ map ] [ Download the Cabrillo College map ] [ Directions to Cabrillo Stage Venues ] Sponsored by the Cabrillo College English Dept. and presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. Free Admission with Ticket. Reserve free tickets at Will Call via email or (831) 464-8983. Pick up free tickets at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Bookworks Aptos, Cabrillo Bookstore, UCSC McHenry Library. See current details on ticket availability. |
Carol Muske-Dukes
is the author of seven books of poetry. The most recent, Sparrow (Random House, 2003), is a collection of elegies
for her husband, the actor David Dukes. It was a National Book Award finalist and won The Yale Review’s Smart Award,
plus the Chapin award from Columbia University. Her previous collection, An Octave Above Thunder, New & Selected Poems (Penguin),
was published in 1997.
Her four novels are Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2010), Life After Death (Random House, 2001), Saving St. Germ (Penguin, 1993) and Dear Digby (Viking, 1989). Her collection of essays entitled Married to the Icepick Killer, A Poet in Hollywood was published in August of 2002. Her collection of reviews and critical essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and the Shape of the Self was published in the Poets on Poetry series of the University of Michigan Press, 1997. Both collections have been New York Times Most Notable Books or listed in the current year’s Best Books. She is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review and the LA Times Book Review. Her work appears everywhere from The New Yorker to L.A. Magazine and she is anthologized widely, including in Best American Poems, 100 Great Poems by Women and many others. She is professor of English and Creative Writing and founding Director of the new Ph.D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She has received many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, the Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and several Pushcart Prizes. Read “A Private Matter” by Carol Muske-Dukes on her website. Read “Twin Tree” on Poetry Daily. Reserve free tickets at Will Call now via email. |
 Photo of Maude Meehan courtesy of Dottie Jakobsen. |
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. This event is funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. 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, Kathleen Flowers, Morton Marcus and Hermie Medley. The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years. Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, The Attic, 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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