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$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz. Keith Ekiss is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University and the past recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences, Santa Fe Art Institute, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park.  He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010). Read “Pima Road Notebook (I)” and “Pima Road Notebook (II)” on the Blackbird website. Read an interview with Keith Ekiss in Leland Quarterly. C.J. Sage is the author of three collections of poems: The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon Poetry, 2010), Oddyssea (Turning Point, 2007) and Let’s Not Sleep (Dream Horse, 2002); and the editor of two anthologies: Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (Dream Horse, 2006), And We The Creatures: Fifty-One Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation (Dream Horse, 2003).  Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review and elsewhere.  She has an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry, is the editor of The National Poetry Review, has taught at Hartnell College and De Anza College, and now lives in Rio Del Mar where she works as a Realtor. Read three poems by C.J. Sage on Verse Daily: “The San Simeon Zebras”, “Goat” and “No Wasn’t Full ” J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of four collections of poems: Inner Cities of Gulls (Salmon Poetry, 2010), Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry, 2008), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004), and Family of Marsupial Centaurs (and other birthday poems) due later this year from Iris Press.  He also has authored seven poetry chapbooks, the latest being Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006).  His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in over a thousand publications including Shenandoah, North American Review, Verse Daily, Poetry International, Puerto Del Sol, and Rattle, and nine have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.  He is the editor of The American Poetry Journal, owner of Dream Horse Press, and host of Out of Our Minds, a weekly radio show for public radio station KKUP (91.5 FM, Wednesdays 8 to 9 pm) in Cupertino. Read poems on Verse Daily by J. P. Dancing Bear.