Poetry Slam
Friday, Mar 22, 7-8:30pm., Henry J. Mello Center, 250 E. Beach, Watsonville.
Poetry Slam (sponsored by America Scores). PVUSD kids read their work as part of a celebration of their recent after school participation in America Scores.
Poetry @ Community Writers of SC County
Saturday, Mar 23, 2:30-4pm. Virtual.
Joe Ortiz reads from Diving into Ink—Poems of Love, Doubt & Discovery and Lyrics from the Five Musicals. Get information and zoom link here.
Mic Drop at 418 Project
Sunday, March 31, 5:30pm. 155 S. River St.
Bry An Callahan and Bo Aucoin share the feature at March’s Open Mic.
CA State Poet Laureate in Santa Cruz
Tuesday, April 2, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Along with Pulitzer prize-finalist Dorianne Laux, Lee Herrick will read and answer questions for this special National Poetry Month edition of The Hive Live! More info, and save your seat here.
Local Book News
Beloved and talented local author Ken Weisner’s most recent book of poems, Songs for the Great Horned, is just out from Shanti Arts. Note: Save the date and watch this space when Ken reads at Poetry and Music in the Park on May 19th. What enticement in Lisa Allen Ortiz’s endorsement: Here is a jewel box of owls! Here is a book of second person owl poems—poems in which the you is a strange shape, a meadow sound, a cypher, a memory, the Maquis, Yahweh, snakes, ghosts, the speaker, a grandbaby, two strangers, death, every mystery, ‘time itself.’ The yous in this book sing and swoop and hunt. They devour. They mate for life and feed their young. These yous have horns and talons. They outlive even as they flee and hide. ‘I see we are you,’ the poet writes, and the world in this book is the world I want to live in— strange and dreadful as it is— it still lasts. It has lasted. May it last still. ‘I am sometimes in dread of the sharp little binary of truth,’ the poet writes inside these pages, ‘It cuts and cuts into nothing.’
Personal Appearance: HERstory
Thursday, March 28, 5:30pm.
Museum of Art & History
I’ll be one of three local women, each representing a different era in Santa Cruz's history - the past, the present, and the future. I’ll read a few minutes of poetry honoring women, along with Rebecca Hernandez (Community Archivist, UCSC) and Lucia Nakashima (H.S. Junior, Kirby School). The evening’s events sound fun and interactive!