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Jack Marshall and Cheryl Dumesnil $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz. Prize-winning poet Jack Marshall was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria.  At 19 he shipped out as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter to West Africa.  Returned to New York, he worked on 42nd Street, attended night classes in poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Robert Lowell, and moved to the Lower East Side, taking part in the growing poetry scene there.  He married and then in 1968 moved with his family to San Francisco.  He has published twelve books of poetry, the most recent being Gorgeous Chaos: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2002), which won a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and a collection of new poems, The Steel Veil, published by Coffee House Press in Fall, 2008.  His memoir, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, was a PEN Center USA finalist. Read a book review by Steve Kowit in the San Diego Union Tribune. Watch Jack Marshall on UC Berkeley’s reading series Lunch Poems on YouTube (28 minutes). Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.  She is also the editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall, and co-editor, with Kim Addonizio, of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.  Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Indiana Review, Calyx, and Many Mountains Moving, among other literary magazines.  Her essays have appeared on literarymama.com, hipmama.com, mamazine.com and in Hip Mama Zine.  For over fifteen years she has taught creative writing at universities, conferences, K-12 schools, and in private settings.  She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their two sons. Read a poem by Cheryl Dumesnil on Verse Daily. Read a poem by Cheryl Dumesnil in The Cortland Review. Learn more on Cheryl Dumesnil’s website.