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Poetry Santa Cruz PresentsToi Derricotte and Ellen Bass
02/07/2012 7:30 pm
| $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz. |
Read a literary biography of Toi Derricotte on the Poetry Foundation website. Visit Toi Derricotte’s website. Read sample poems from The Human Line
on the Ellen Bass website.
Read an interview with Ellen Bass
on the Poets & Writers website.
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Ellen Bass’s most recent book of poems, The Human Line,
(Copper Canyon, 2007) was named a Notable Book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle. She co-edited with Florence Howe
the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973) and has published several previous volumes
of poetry, including Mules of Love (BOA, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her non-fiction books include
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Harper Collins 1988), which has sold over a
million copies and has been translated into ten languages. She currently is teaching in the low residency MFA program
at Pacific University and has taught poetry and creative writing in Santa Cruz and at other beautiful
locations nationally and internationally since 1974.
