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Locally & Independently Published Poetry

Bookshop Santa Cruz has hundreds of locally and independently published books on our shelves. Our consignment program allows us to continue to accept all of the professionally-produced, self-published books from our local authors and to devote our resources to prominently featuring them throughout the store.

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Author Bio: 

Mycah Miller is a CA-based queer poet, artist, and student, and was a member of the winning team of the 2018 Southwest Shootout. She currently attends SJSU as an English major. She creates art as an escape from and commentary on the outside world in a continuous attempt to both understand and connect with others. In her non-writing time, she can be found drinking tea, riding her motorcycle(s), and working as a motorcycle safety instructor.

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$15.00
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ISBN: 9781636250212
Published: Ragdoll Productions - December 5th, 2020

The Immortal Sunflower

Author Bio: 

Sophia Falco believes that poetry has the tremendous power to be a form of activism. She believes poetry has the immense potential to create a change of heart regarding the perception of those who struggle with bipolar disorder—herself included. She graduated with two associate degrees from Foothill College with high honors in English and in Spanish. She will graduate from The University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020 with a B.A. in intensive literature with a creative writing concentration for poetry. In her free time she is an epic gardener.

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$15.75
ISBN: 9780359973651
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Published: Lulu.com - September 25th, 2019

The Extra Year

Author Bio: 

Jory Post has been an educator and writer for 40 years as well as making handmade books and journals with his wife. His fiction and poetry have been published in Catamaran Literary ReviewChicago Quarterly Review,  Porter Gulch ReviewRed Wheelbarrow82 Review, and upcoming in The Sun. He is the cofounder and editor of phren-z online literary magazine in Santa Cruz. 

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$16.50
ISBN: 9781681145082
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Published: Anaphora Literary Press - October 1st, 2019

The Knot Untied by Patrice Vecchione

Author Bio: 
Patrice Vecchione is the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within from McGraw-Hill, an earlier collection of poems, Territory of Wind from Many Hands Press, and the editor of many anthologies,including: Truth and Lies, The Body Eclectic, and Revenge and Forgiveness, for young adults, from Henry Holt, Whisper and
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$15.00
ISBN: 9780615693705
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Published: Palanquin Press/ Community Publishing - March 15th, 2013

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