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Travis Mossotti and Ingrid Browning Moody
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
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$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Travis Mossotti received his MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has been a faculty lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and McKendree University, and his poetry continues to appear widely. Mossotti was awarded the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review in 2009, and his poem “Decampment” was adapted to screen in 2010 as an animated short film. His first collection of poems, About the Dead (Utah State University Press, 2011), was awarded the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award by contest judge Garrison Keillor. Mossotti currently resides in St. Louis with his wife, Regina.

Read and/or listen to Travis Mossotti’s poem “Crossing the Gap” on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.

Read a book review of About the Dead in Basalt.

 
Ingrid Browning Moody’s poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, RHINO, and elsewhere. She has received artist grants from the Squaw Valley Poetry Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her chapbook, Learning About Fire, won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in February. She teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and crafts artisan jewelry in her Santa Cruz studio. Find her online at ingridbrowning.com.

Read three poems by Ingrid Browning Moody in Saxifrage.


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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