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Toi Derricotte and
Ellen Bass
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
[ map ].
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
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Toi Derricotte was born in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1941.
Her most recent book of poetry, Tender (1997), is the winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is the
author of three previous books of poems and a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton, 1997), which won the
1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her essay,
“Beginning Dialogues,” is included in The Best American Essays 2006, edited by Lauren Slater. She has received numerous
honors including the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America; two Pushcart Prizes, and the Barnes & Noble
Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, Inc. With Cornelius Eady, in 1996, she co-founded Cave Canem Foundation,
North America’s premier “home for black poetry.” She is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Read a literary biography of
Toi Derricotte on the Poetry Foundation website.
Visit Toi Derricotte’s website.
Ellen Bass’s most recent book of poems, The Human Line,
(Copper Canyon, 2007) was named a Notable Book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle. She co-edited with Florence Howe
the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973) and has published several previous volumes
of poetry, including Mules of Love (BOA, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her non-fiction books include
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Harper Collins 1988), which has sold over a
million copies and has been translated into ten languages. She currently is teaching in the low residency MFA program
at Pacific University and has taught poetry and creative writing in Santa Cruz and at other beautiful
locations nationally and internationally since 1974.
Read sample poems from The Human Line
on the Ellen Bass website.
Read an interview with Ellen Bass
on the Poets & Writers website.
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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, Casablanca Inn, Cabrillo College, and KUSP.
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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