Poetry Santa Cruz featuring Taije Silverman and Maria Garcia Teutsch

05/11/2010 7:30 pm
05/11/2010 9:00 pm

 

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.

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