Joseph Stroud and Susan Freeman Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30 PM, Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola. $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.
Joseph Stroud has a new collection of poems arriving this winter: Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, December 1, 2008). His previous collections are In the Sleep of Rivers (Capra Press, 1974), Signatures (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1982), Below Cold Mountain (Copper Canyon Press, 1998), Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), and three limited-edition chapbooks. He was born in 1943 in Glendale, California and received his BA in Literature and Philosophy in 1966 and his MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1968. He taught writing and literature at Cabrillo Community College for 35 years and co-hosted The Poetry Show on KUSP. He is the recipient of the prestigious Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. His poems have been featured on National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He divides his time between Santa Cruz and his cabin at Shay Creek on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.(from the Poetry Santa Cruz December Newsletter)
Read The Potato from Country of Light by Joseph Stroud on the Academy of American Poets website.
Read three more poems from Country of Light on the Copper Canyon Press website:
“Cathedral”, a selection from “I Wanted to Paint Paradise” and “A Coat of Many Colors”.
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