Poetry Santa Cruz


Nils Peterson and Sally Ashton Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola [ map ]. $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
Nils Peterson is the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County and is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he taught in the English and Humanities Departments. He was Coordinator of the Creative Writing Emphasis for more than 20 years, and served as Coordinator of the Creative Arts and Chair of the Humanities Department. He was chosen as Professor of the Year by the Student Honor Society. Peterson has published poetry, science fiction, and articles on subjects as varyied as golf and Shakespeare. His publications include Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing, a chapbook of poems; The Comedy of Desire, a collection of poems; Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango, a collection of poems; and For This Day, a collection of Christmas poems. He has been poetry consultant for San Jose State Studies, an editor for "Discover America" (a collection of poems celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the USA), and contributing editor to The Blue Sofa Review. Peterson was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart prize. See Nils Peterson’s website. See his Poet Laureate blog. Sally Ashton is a poet, writer and editor of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. She is author of Some Odd Afternoon (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), Her Name Is Juanita (Kore Press, 2009), and These Metallic Days (Main Street Rag, 2005). Poems also appear in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009) and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press, 2009) as well as journals such as Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, 5am, Mississippi Review, and Poet Lore. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship, Poetry, from Arts Council Silicon Valley and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. Ashton earned her MFA at Bennington Writing Seminars. Besides workshops, she teaches creative writing at San Jose State University and lives in Los Gatos, California. Read a review in Rattle of Some Odd Afternoon. Read Sally Ashton’s blog at www.poetryonastick.blogspot.com. Read poems and see the art in DMQ Review.
Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. Some events are supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. 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 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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