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Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Community Book Group

Led by Julie Minnis with a discussion with Prof. Bruce Bridgeman

Book Choice: My Stroke of Insight—by Jill Taylor

* please note 7:00pm start time of this event

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We are celebrating our third year of Community Book Groups—a monthly Book Group that is open to everyone in the community.  While we’ll continue to honor titles written by local authors in our area, we thought we would also celebrate the amazing minds of our community.  With
art, thought and culture, being Santa Cruz ’s backbone, we decided to
bring some of that creativity and smarts into our Book Group as well.  To
start the idea off, we’ll literally be talking about what sparks ideas
in the first place—brains—with the help of UCSC’s neuroscientist Bruce
Bridgeman. 

Bookshop’s next community selection will be Jill Taylor’s, My Stroke of Insight. At
37, Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive
stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind
deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or
recall any of her life-all within four hours, Taylor alternated between
the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she
felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical,
sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and
enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take
her eight years to fully recover.  For Taylor, her stroke
was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the
right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that
are often sidelined by "brain chatter."  A beautiful personal account of brain science, this is a memoir that will leave you touched and curious.

To help with that curiosity, our Community Book Group will feature a discussion about the book at 7:00 pm facilitated by Julie Minnis, followed by a dialogue with local neuroscientist Professor Bruce Bridgeman at 7:30pm.  My Stroke of Insight will
be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price from
Tuesday, January 12th until the February 10th meeting date (for those
last minute readers!). We hope you’ll join us.

PS—There will be snacks and tea!!

Meltzer’s
began her book Girl Power as a single article in Slate Magazine years
ago when she spoke to the greater loss that women felt when the band
Sleater-Kinney broke up.  At the time, her article
generated a tremendous reader response and inspired Meltzer to take a
deeper look at the role of women in music and the situation they face
today, and so the title for Girl Power was born.

The
nineties were a boom time for women in all genres of music. It was a
time when underground met the mainstream: riot grrrls wearing kilts and
playing in all-girl punk bands, rock musicians like Courtney Love and
Liz Phair writing songs about sex, the Spice Girls’ pop domination
while assuring girls that they could—and should—kick ass. It was Lilith
Fair and Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos.

Meltzer
writes, “Girl power recognizes that not everything is pure: it delights
in ambiguous gray areas. It’s not just about testing out your own
relationship to feminism, but about finding your identity in the world.
But girl power’s ‘do-it-yourself’ message of ‘You can do anything ‘is a
powerful entrée to feminism, especially because its simplicity brings
in the very young . . . Girl power is a way station, not an endpoint,
and a gateway, I hope to a more profound equality of the sexes.”

Interspersing
her own personal accounts with interviews with some of the most
powerful voices in women’s music, from The Indigo Girls to the Spice
Girls, Meltzer gives us a powerful account to the importance of women
in music.

Marisa
Meltzer is the co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life. Her writing has
appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Salon, Slate, and
SPIN.  As a one time Santa Cruz resident, Bookshop Santa Cruz is proud to welcome her back to the area to honor her book.

Timothy Ferris, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, and author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, has published a new book, The Science of Liberty, a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy across the modern world. In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—"the best popular science writer in the English language today" (Christian Science Monitor)—makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free and democratic societies from less than 1 percent of the world population four centuries ago to more than a third today.

Ferris deftly investigates the evolution of these scientific and political revolutions, demonstrating that they are inextricably bound. He shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism—from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism.

A sweeping intellectual history, The Science of Liberty is a stunningly original work that transcends the antiquated concepts of left and right.

Please help up welcome Mr. Ferris for a reading, signing, and Q&A, on what is sure to be an insightful and interesting night.

Help us celebrate a new novel by Santa Cruz ’s beloved Clifford Henderson. Local and best-selling author Clifford Henderson (co-founder of the Fun Institute, Santa Cruz ’s renowned school of improv and solo performance) will be at Bookshop Santa Cruz to celebrate her newest novel, Spanking New.

Getting born is trickier than Spanky ever imagined. Yearning for life, Spanky chooses Nina, a flighty actress just out of college, and Rick, a sax player who changes tires to get by, to be his parents. Only Nina seems to be hung up on her gay guy friend Pablo, and Nina’s best girlfriend Dink is hung up her! Will Nina and Rick get it together in time to conceive Spanky before he evaporates? And if this hurdle gets crossed, will they choose to keep him? There’s not much Spanky can do but watch from above while his fate plays out—and if that’s not scary enough—an unexpected twist of fate makes Spanky have to completely reevaluate his expectations. He’s a girl! A poignant, hilarious, unforgettable look at life, love, gender, and the essence of what makes us who we are.

We are so happy to welcome Clifford back to Bookshop Santa Cruz and know that this will be a night filled with talent, laughter, and stories to be told. Please help us welcome Ms. Henderson for the debut reading of her newest novel. Signing and Q&A will follow.

February
is Black History Month, and in honor of it, we will be holding a
special event with award winning children’s author Elizabeth Partridge
for her new title, Marching for Freedom.

Only 44 years ago in
the United States , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to
win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for that movement became
Selma , Alabama. Author Elizabeth Partridge leads us straight into the
chaotic, passionate, and deadly three months of protests that
culminated in the landmark march in 1965. However, she tells the story
by focusing her eye on the courageous children who faced the terrifying
violence accompanying the journey, while marching alongside King. 

This is an inspiring book that honors all the children who participated in the Selma to Montgomery March during the Civil Right Movement’s fight
for
the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the
text, and make this book a tribute that is to be seen as well as read. 

But
one cannot talk about that March in 1965, without also honoring the
music that carried it through. Partridge discusses some of the
spirituals that the children would sing while marching in order to keep
them hopeful and strong. It was the children themselves who created the
verse, “We Are Not Afraid,” to the song We Shall Overcome, letting
the power of those words carry them forward even as violence erupted
around them.

We will be holding this event as an open discussion with
Ms. Partridge and audience members, facilitated by Julie Minnis, and
highest of honors, we will be joined by Gateway School’s 2nd and 5th graders as they sing the song that yesterday’s children sung to give them the strength to carry on.

PS—As an added bonus, in honor of Black History Month, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be offering Marching for Freedom at 10% off its cover price the entire month of February.

Local poet, writer, teacher and sustainable living advocate Andy Couturier has written a book that is as beautiful as it is telling. Focusing on eleven men and women raised in the tumult of Japan 's industrial powerhouse, each of the people profiled in Couturier’s book made a transition away from industry-fueled careers toward more sustainable, fulfilling lives. They are today artists, philosophers, and farmers who reside deep in the mountains of rural Japan . We meet people like Atsuko Watanabe, an environmentalist and home-schooler who explores Christian mysticism while raising her two daughters in an old farmhouse, to Akira Ito, an ex-petroleum engineer who became a painter and children's book illustrator. Couturier, by presenting the journeys of these ordinary--yet exceptional--people, shows how we too can travel a meaningful path of living simply, with respect for our communities and our natural resources. These Japanese are pioneers in a sense; drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom they have forged a new style of modernity, and in their success is a lesson for us all: live a life that matters.

Andy Couturier will read from the book, give a presentation about his journey in Japan , do an audience Q&A, and sign copies of A Different Kind of Luxury. We hope to see you there!

With free gifts, books, wine, cheese, staff reviews and a look at what’s coming out next!

If you are in a Book Group, or looking to join one, this is an event you don’t want to skip! Our next soiree is set for March 4th.  Get information about the many benefits of registering your book group at Bookshop Santa Cruz, hear staff share with us their favorite book group recommendations, get a chance to share your own favorite reads, and get the inside scoop about books to keep an eye out for in the coming months (like a new Isabel Allende or Anne Lamott….) And for extra bonuses, there will be a raffle and many free giveaways to all who attend. We’ll also be offering a 20% off coupon for all paperback fiction titles that will be good for that night alone.  And, yes, there will wine and cheese!
We can’t wait to see you there!

Cecilia Woloch and
Jeff Tagami

$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Prize-winning poet Cecilia Woloch
is the author of four award-winning collections of poems, most recently Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press 2006
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award.  Carpathia, newly available from BOA Editions Ltd., is her fifth book.
Her previous books of poems are Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem;
and Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004.  She is currently a lecturer
in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California, as well as the founding director
of The Paris Poetry Workshop.  She spends a part of each year traveling, and in recent years has divided
her time between Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Shepherdsville, Kentucky; Paris, France; and
a small village in the Carpathian mountains of southeastern Poland.

Read a poem by Cecilia Woloch in the Cortland Review.

Read a poem by Cecilia Woloch in Ted Kooser’s column American Life in Poetry.

Read a Cecilia Woloch poem and interview Diane Lockward’s Blogalicious.

Jeff Tagami is the author of October Light,
a collection of poetry, and has co-edited four anthologies, including Without Names: A Bay Area Filipino
American Poetry Collection (Kearny Street Press) and Poets and Writers of the Monterey Bay (Quarry West).
His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Breaking Silence and The
Open Boat.  He is one of sixty American poets featured in the P.B.S. film The United States of Poetry.
He has been invited to read his work by The Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Society of America.
He is co-founder of the Bay Area Pilipino American Writers group and is a charter member of Kearny Street
Workshop, San Francisco.  He was born in Watsonville, lived 15 years in San Francisco, has returned home,
and now lives in Santa Cruz and teaches at Cabrillo College.

Read on The Poetry Foundation Website a review
by Barbara Jane Reyes of Jeff Tagami’s October Light.

Led by Julie Minnis with a discussion with John Dizikes
Book Choice: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
* please note 7:00pm start time of this event

Our next Community Book Group celebrates Gregory Maguire’s Wicked. Following the traditions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Gardner and J.R.R. Tolkien, Wicked is a richly woven tale that takes us to the darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West's odyssey through the complex world of Oz--where people call you wicked if you tell the truth. First published in 1995, the novel was called a work of vision and re-vision. Fifteen years later, Wicked is not only a best-selling novel, but it’s also been made into a hit Broadway play.

The Chicago Sun says this of the play, “Wicked has worked its magic the old-fashioned way: not with reviews or awards or heavy marketing, but by connecting with audiences through its accessible music, story and characters…the show's themes--the rewards and trials of friendship, outsiderness vs. popularity, courage in the face of an oppressive system--have struck a deep chord in theatergoers....”       

                                             
Our Book Group facilitator Julie Minnis will be joined by UCSC’s emeritus professor of American Studies, John Dizikes, (who is also a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, Opera in America: A Cultural History, as well as a self-proclaimed Broadway enthusiast) to discuss the book, and then carry things a step further by talking about the Broadway play.  Can any book become a musical? Is there something in the story that Maguire tells that allows it to carry over to sound and movement?  Is this story indicative of a new style of Broadway, or is there something familiar in it compared to yesterday’s hits? Join us as we discuss the nuances of the story, sound, and stage surrounding Maguire’s Wicked. 
This is sure to be a night filled with insight, laughter, and dialogue you won’t want to miss!

Bookshop Santa Cruz is honored to welcome bestselling writer and teacher Geneen Roth to discuss and sign copies of her newest book, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything.

The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. The world is on your plate.  When you begin to understand what prompts you to use food as a way to numb or distract yourself, the process takes you deeper into realms of spirit and to the bright center of your own life. Rather than getting rid of or instantly changing your conflicted relationship with food, Women Food and God is about welcoming what is already here, and contacting the part of yourself that is already whole--divinity itself.

"Geneen Roth does it again! Women, Food and God is absolutely mesmerizing. And loaded with insights which can change your life."  --Chistiane Northrup, MD, ob/gyn physician and author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"A hugely important work, a life-changer, one that will free
untold women from the tyranny and fear and hopelessness around their
bodies."  --Annie Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

One-time UCSC professor Hugh Raffles has written a book that is as beautiful as it is informative. Insectopedia is an exploration of the stunning, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with which we share this world: INSECTS.

For as long as humans have been here, insects have been here. Yet we hardly know them--the insects that eat our food, share our beds, live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically, with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, author Hugh Raffles uses the prism of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics and popular culture to show how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our fears, and beguiled our imaginations.

Deftly combining the anecdotal and the scientific, Raffles has given us an essential book of reference. Please join us as we welcome Mr. Raffles for a book talk, signing, and q&a.

Atsuro Riley and Stephen Kessler

$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Prize-winning poet Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry.  His first collection of poems is Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series, April 1, 2010).  His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets (2007), and has been featured on Poetry Daily. He has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and a grant from the Artists Fund of the Peninsula Community Foundation.

Download MP3’s of Atsuro Riley reading his poems.

Stephen Kessler, editor and principal translator of The Sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges, reads new translations from that book and from Poems of the Night (edited by Efraín Kristal), its companion volume, both newly published by Penguin Classics.  The Argentine Borges (1899-1986) is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century—a peer of Joyce, Proust, Kafka and Beckett—best known for his remarkably inventive short prose fictions.  Less well known is that Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet, and his 600-page collected poems in Spanish establishes him as the equal of his Latin American contemporaries Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo and Octavio Paz as one of the leading poets of his time.  In The Sonnets Borges proves himself a master of this most traditional form, and in Poems of the Night he explores in other forms the themes of twilight, darkness, blindness, visions and dreams.  Longtime Santa Cruz writer Stephen Kessler’s other recent books include The Mental Traveler (novel), Desolation of the Chimera by Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (translation), Burning Daylight (poems) and Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation (essays).

Learn more about the works of Stephen Kessler on his website.

Discussion led by Julie Minnis, with guest speaker TOM MARSHALL
Book Selections: Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems, Volume 1 & Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island
Read the Discussion Questions

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Our next Community Book Group celebrates--but what else in the month of April?-- poetry! We are delighted to honor National Poetry Month by selecting two acclaimed books of poetry as our community reads.

Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems was originally published in 1992, and Oliver was thus awarded the National Book Award. In the years since its initial appearance, this volume has become one of the bestselling collections of poetry in the country. Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. Her passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for Turtle Island. With nature as their backbone, these poems range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives.

We hope you will read these two outstanding books of poetry, then join us at our event on April 20th. Our book group facilitator, Julie Minnis, will be joined by local poet and teacher Tom Marshall to discuss the poetry of Mary Oliver and Gary Snyder. They will be discussing both writers' individual work, as well as the ways that Oliver and Snyder's poetry compare to one another.

Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems and Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island will be discounted 10% from March 11th until the April 20th meeting date.

We hope you’ll join us!
P.S. There will be snacks and tea!

We are launching the second season of our popular series, Bookshop Santa Cruz Outdoors, with a Hike & Poetry event led by Ellen Bass.

In honor of National Poetry Month, be inspired by nature while discovering your poetic voice. Join local poet Ellen Bass as she leads a moderate hike through beautiful Wilder Ranch State Park and guides you through writing exercises inspired by the natural world.

Cost
Individual price: $30 includes the 2+ hour hike, refreshments, & one copy of either Mules of Love or Human Line.

Couples price: $45 includes the hike, refreshments, & one copy of a collection of Ellen’s poetry for the couple to share.  

Registration begins April 1, 2010  

Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Please stop by our information desk or call us at 831.423.0900 to purchase tickets. Customers who register over the phone will have their book, ticket, and registration materials placed on hold for them to pick up at the store.

Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome NPR contributor Dave Isay to Bookshop to present his new book, Mom.

Since 2003, StoryCorps has been one of the most ambitious oral history projects ever undertaken. Founded by Dave Isay, it has collected the life stories of more than fifty thousand Americans in all fifty states, and preserved these interviews for future generations at the Library of Congress. Millions of radio listeners look forward to hearing these stories each Friday morning on NPR.

Selecting StoryCorps’ most revelatory stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.
In stories that take us from the Bronx to the rural South and beyond, we are introduced to mothers and children from all walks of life—single moms, working moms, moms with one child, moms with a dozen or more children, mothers who adopted children, mothers who lost children. Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph, we learn new truths about that most ancient and sacred of bonds—the relationship between mother and child.

Please join us for a book talk, signing, and Q&A with Dave Isay.

In the spirit of the StoryCorps, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be creating our own homage to mothers compiled of contributions from the community and we’ll be presenting highlights of this project at the event. Click here for details. Don’t miss this night!

An Evening With
DAVID SEDARIS

Sunday, May
2nd at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 

David Sedaris,
NPR humorist and bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and When
You Are Engulfed in Flames, is coming to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
for one night only: Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased via SantaCruzTickets.com, by phone
(831)420-5260, or in person at the Civic Box Office, 307 Church Street (Tuesday-Friday
11am-6pm, Saturday 10-1:30pm). 

Bookshop Santa Cruz will be selling books at this event. We are delighted to once again be a part of welcoming David Sedaris to town!

With sardonic
wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s
pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through
cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is
a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing
the human condition today.  

David Sedaris
is the author Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well
as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One
Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy
and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which
became a bestseller.  There are a total of seven million copies
of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. 
He was the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules:
An Anthology of Outstanding Stories.  Sedaris’s pieces appear
regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in the
Best American Essays collections.  He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have
collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written
half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center,
and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump
the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received
an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book
of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. 
David Sedaris’s original radio pieces can often be heard on This
American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International
and produced by WBEZ.  David Sedaris has been nominated for three
Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. 

           
“Sedaris ain’t the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident” -Entertainment Weekly 

“Sedaris
has hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation,
or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world might
actually want and find useful. . .  He’s smart, he’s caustic, he’s
mordant, and, somehow, he’s . . . well, nice.”

—Bill
Richardson, Toronto Globe and Mail 

“Sedaris’s
droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s
crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” 

—Chicago
Tribune

“Sedaris
belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are
revising our ideas
about what’s funny.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Photo by Anne Fishbein

Pultizer Prize winner and Bookshop Santa Cruz favorite Jane Smiley will be here to celebrate her new novel, Private Life—a stunning tale that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880’s to World War II.

Private Life is a evocation of a woman's inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, an unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers.

Please join us for a reading, signing, and audience Q&A with one of the nation’s most talented contemporary writers.

Taije Silverman and Maria Garcia Teutsch 

$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

Prize-winning poet Taije Silverman’s first collection of poems, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009.  The recipient of the 2005–2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she now lives and teaches in Philadelphia.  Her individual poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, and The Massachusetts Review.  Her book has just been translated into Italian, with excerpts to be published in the Italian Poetry Review at Columbia University and ClanDESTino at the University of Bologna.  Her own translations of contemporary Italian poetry are forthcoming in Pleiades and Hunger Mountain.

See Taije Silverman’s page at Emory University, including a poem and an audio recording of a reading.

Read a poem in Elegant Thorn Review.

Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet residing in Santa Cruz. She is editor-in-chief of Ping-Pong journal of Art and Literature published by the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, as well as The Homestead Review, published by Hartnell College in Salinas.  She also serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Henry Miller Library.  Her publications include Cold Mountain Review, Monterey Poetry Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, South Carolina Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Santa Clara Review and Lullwater Review.

Read a poem by Maria Garcia Teutsch on the Women and Food website.

Read Maria Garcia Teutsch’s blog.

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, The Attic, Casablanca Inn, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Cabrillo College, KUSP and the National Writers Union Chapter 7.  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.