Dian Duchin Reed, Tilly Washburn Shaw, T. Mike Walker and Ken Weisner
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
[ map ].  $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Dian Duchin Reed is the author of Medusa Discovers Styling Gel (Finishing Line Press, 2009).  Recent poems appear in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and Poetry East.  She has been the recipient of a Sundberg Family grant for literary criticism, the Mel Tuohey Award for writing excellence, and the Mary Lonnberg Smith Award in Poetry.

Read a poem in Rattle by Dian Duchin Reed and three poems in Good Times.
 

Tilly Washburn Shaw is the author of Swimming Closer to Shore (Hummingbird Press, 2002) and poetry in selected magazines.  After years of teaching literature, she retired to the enjoyments of age, lives in Santa Cruz with her fruit trees, friends, writing groups and books, every year does some traveling, swims whenever she’s able.

Read poems by Tilly Washburn Shaw on the Hummingbird Press website.

Writer, teacher, public speaker, Executive Director of Santa Cruz Art League, T. Mike Walker weaves poetry, collage, painting, mixed media and music into this thing called his life.

Read three poems by T. Mike Walker on the Santa Cruz Weekly website.

View some collages by T. Mike Walker.

 
Ken Weisner received his BA in English from Oberlin College, an MFA in Poetry Writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCSC.  He edits Red Wheelbarrow through De Anza Community College in Cupertino, where he teaches literature, composition, and creative writing.  He is the author of two books of poems, The Sacred Geometry of Pedestrians, (2002) and Anything on Earth (2010), both published by Hummingbird Press.

Read Ken Weisner’s poem The Gardener on The Writer’s Almanac.

Read poems by Ken Weisner on the Hummingbird Press website.

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.