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Poetry Santa Cruz presents Gwyneth Lewis, Catie Rosemurgy, and James Maughn
06/08/2010 7:30 pm
06/08/2010 9:00 pm
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
 Gwyneth Lewis served as the National Poet of Wales from 2005 to 2006, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight books of poetry in Welsh and English. Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) brings together the poems from her three English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum. A Hospital Odyssey was published by Bloodaxe in April, 2010. Gwyneth’s first non-fiction book Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Harper Perennial 2002), was short listed for the Mind Book of the Year. She is currently a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, studying the effects of meter and rhyme on the body.
On the Latest News page of Gwyneth Lewis’ website, watch a short video of her reading two poems and click on the link to learn about and even watch her lecture at Radcliffe, The Health of Poetry. Read an interview with Gwyneth Lewis on the Stanford University website. Prize-winning poet Catie Rosemurgy’s second poetry collection is The Stranger Manual, published in January 2010 by Graywolf Press. Her first collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, also from Graywolf Press, came out in 2001. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Emerging Female Writers. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry and in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets and Poetry 30, a collection of work by American poets in their thirties. She teaches at The College of New Jersey. Read a short but a poem on Poetry Daily by Catie Rosemurgy and a poem in Boston Review. Read three poems in Diagram.  James Maughn lives in Santa Cruz, where he is a poetry co-editor for the literary arts journal Ping Pong, published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library. He also coordinates the A New Cadence Poetry Series out of the Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz. His first book, Kata, was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2009. Work has appeared in Otoliths, Lungfull, Parthenon West Review, TinFish, Big Bell, Sentence, Moria, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dusie, MiPoesias, and Horse Less Review. He is a member of the Black Radish Collective, and his second book, Arakaki Permutations, will be published by Black Radish Books in 2010. Another book, These Peripheries, will be published by Ahadada Press in 2010/2011. Read James Maughn’s Abecedarian in MiPoesias. Read a poem in Moria. |
