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\, 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 that is a must have in every home--a beautiful beautiful book.
Please join us to celebrate with Mr. Raffles for a presentation\, signing &\; Q&\;
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.
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Led by Julie Minnis with a discussion with TOM MARSHALL
Book Choices\: Mary Oliver’s New &\; Selected Poems\, Volume 1 &\; Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island
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Our next Community Book Group celebrates but what else in the month of April\; poetry! 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 best-selling collections of poetry in the country. Mary 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. Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual\, all living things\, and the natural world.
Another award winning title\, Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for Turtle Island. With nature at 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. . . . .
Our Book Group facilitator Julie Minnis will be joined by local poet and teacher Tom Marshall to discuss the poetry of Gary Snyder and Mary Oliver. They will be discussing both writers for their individual work\, as well as the ways Oliver &\; Snyder compare to one another.
Mary Oliver’s New &\; Selected Poems and Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island will be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price from March 11th until the April 20th meeting date (for those last minute readers!). We hope you’ll join us!
PS—There will be snacks and tea!!
Bookshop Santa Cruz has managed to nab NPR’s wonderful David Isay to come to the store and 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 and 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 presentation\, signing\, and Q&\;A with David 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. Don’t miss this night!
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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
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