Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Dena Taylor present The 30th Annual In Celebration of the Muse Saturday, March 10, 7:30 PM, Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos Readers: Ellen Treen, Barbara Bloom, Adela Najarro, Lisa Simon, Julie Hannah Brower, Laura Young, Tilly Washburn Shaw, Elizabeth McKenzie, Dee Roe, Patricia Zylius, Alta Ifland, Clifford Henderson, Lisa Allen Ortiz, Farnaz Fatemi, Susan Freeman, Suki Wessling, Jo-Ann Birch, Rosie King, Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméris. • Advance tickets, $16 general or $8 with Cabrillo College Student Activity Card, are available from February 15 until 2 pm Saturday, March 10 at: Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, downtown Santa Cruz ($16 general admission only) Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola (both $16 general and $8 with Cabrillo Student Activity Card) Crossroads Books, Main Street, Watsonville (both $16 and $8) • Will Call tickets may be reserved by mail: Send no later than Wednesday, March 7 your check made out to Poetry Santa Cruz to: Poetry Santa Cruz / PO Box 259 / Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0259. Include the number of tickets being ordered and email address or phone number for confirmation. • The Cabrillo Crocker Theater is on the south (lower) side of Soquel Dr. off Cabrillo College Drive and parking is available in lot L. [ Mapquest Map ]  [ Download the Cabrillo map ]  [ Directions to Theater ] • Doors open for seating and ticket sales at 7:00 PM.  $18 or $8 with Cabrillo College Student Activity Card, cash and checks to Poetry Santa Cruz accepted.  We will have no credit card processing capability. For faster service, make out your check in advance or bring exact change. • Ellen Treen’s Defining Moments, winner of the 2012 In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award, and other books by the readers will also be available for purchase. • On Sunday March 4, Susan Freeman hosted In Celebration of the Muse readers Adela Najarro, Rosie King, Lisa Simon and Laura Young on The Poetry Show on KUSP. You can listen to the show or download it for later listening on The Poetry Show Blog.

Poetry Santa Cruz is also sponsored by In Celebration of the Muse, Casablanca Inn, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, KUSP, the William James Association, the Museum of Art & History, and Cabrillo College English Department.  Membership premiums have been donated by Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Coffee House Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, and Robert Sward.