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• Garrison Keillor will read “Her Legacy” by Barbara Bloom on Monday, April 28 on his daily show The Writer’s Almanac. This will be the third poem from Barbara Bloom’s collection On the Water Meridian featured by Mr. Keillor. In the Monterey Bay area you can hear The Writer’s Almanac every day on KAZU 90.3 FM at 9:01 AM and 8:01 PM.

• Tuesday
May 13, 2008
7:00 PM Joanna Martin and Illia Thompson will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.

• Tuesday
July 8, 2008
7:30 PM David Allen Sullivan and Len Anderson will read with Kathleen Flowers and Bernice Rendrick at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA. This reading is presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz. [Read more about this event.]

• Tuesday
July 8, 2008
7:00 PM Ken Weisner and John Dotson will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.

• Tuesday
October 14, 2008
7:00 PM Len Anderson and George Lober will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.

• Tuesday
November 9, 2008
7:00 PM Charles Atkinson and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.

• On November 18, 2007 Ken Weisner and Tilly Washburn Shaw read with Dena Taylor, Lilian Heritage, Morton Marcus, Gail Meehan, Charlie Meehan, Claudia Sternbach, Gael Roziere, Stephen Kessler, Gary Young, Julie Olsen Edwards, Ellen Treen (for Diane di Prima) and Rebecca Meehan in the reading Celebrating Santa Cruz Poetry Diva Maude Meehan, an afternoon of poems and stories presented by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Patrice Vecchione. This reading will be shown on The Poetry Box, a half-hour TV poetry show on Community Television of Santa Cruz County, on Comcast cable channel 27 and Charter (Watsonville) channel 73. The third part of three parts of the reading will be aired on Tuesdays, April 8 and 15 at 8:30 PM and Thursdays, April 10, 17 and 24 at 9:00 PM. The show was filmed 11/18/07 by independent producer and Hummingbird Press poet Joanna Martin.

• See Amber Coverdale Sumrall’s website for information on the writing workshops she offers.

• On the Water Meridian by Barbara Bloom and Sweetwater, Saltwater by Rosie King have been nominated for the first annual Poetry award from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.

• The following poems by Hummingbird Press poets have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio:
By Barbara Bloom from On the Water Meridian:
    • “Making Things Right” on October 21, 2007.
    • “Vancouver to Edmonton” September 28, 2007.
By Rosie King from Sweetwater, Saltwater:
    • “After Miss Shelley, Miss Hattersley, Miss Guilford—” on June 5, 2007.
    • “Old South School” on May 3, 2007.
    • “Visitation” on March 30, 2007.
    • “Saturdays” on March 23, 2007.
By Amber Coverdale Sumrall from her first collection of poems, Litany of Wings,
published by Many Names Press:
    • “Reunion” on August 2, 2005.
By Debra Spencer from Pomegranate:
    • “At the Arraignment” on March 13, 2005.
    • “The Discovery of Sex” on March 11, 2005.
    • “Moment of Inertia” on March 9, 2005 and reread on March 9, 2008.
    • “Day Bath” on March 8, 2005 and reread on March 8, 2008.

• Garrison Keillor will read “Her Legacy” by Barbara Bloom on Monday, April 28 on his daily show The Writer’s Almanac. This will be the third poem from Barbara Bloom’s collection On the Water Meridian featured by Mr. Keillor. In the Monterey Bay area you can hear The Writer’s Almanac every day on KAZU 90.3 FM at 9:01 AM and 8:01 PM.
• Tuesday May 13, 2008 7:00 PM	Joanna Martin and Illia Thompson will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.
• Tuesday July 8, 2008 7:30 PM	David Allen Sullivan and Len Anderson will read with Kathleen Flowers and Bernice Rendrick at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA. This reading is presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. $3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz. [Read more about this event.]
• Tuesday July 8, 2008 7:00 PM	Ken Weisner and John Dotson will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.
• Tuesday October 14, 2008 7:00 PM	Len Anderson and George Lober will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.
• Tuesday November 9, 2008 7:00 PM	Charles Atkinson and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts will read in the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington St., Monterey. $5.
• On November 18, 2007 Ken Weisner and Tilly Washburn Shaw read with Dena Taylor, Lilian Heritage, Morton Marcus, Gail Meehan, Charlie Meehan, Claudia Sternbach, Gael Roziere, Stephen Kessler, Gary Young, Julie Olsen Edwards, Ellen Treen (for Diane di Prima) and Rebecca Meehan in the reading *Celebrating Santa Cruz Poetry Diva Maude Meehan, an afternoon of poems and stories presented by Amber Coverdale Sumrall* and Patrice Vecchione. This reading will be shown on The Poetry Box, a half-hour TV poetry show on Community Television of Santa Cruz County, on Comcast cable channel 27 and Charter (Watsonville) channel 73. The third part of three parts of the reading will be aired on Tuesdays, April 8 and 15 at 8:30 PM and Thursdays, April 10, 17 and 24 at 9:00 PM. The show was filmed 11/18/07 by independent producer and Hummingbird Press poet Joanna Martin.
• See Amber Coverdale Sumrall’s website for information on the writing workshops she offers.
• On the Water Meridian by Barbara Bloom and Sweetwater, Saltwater by Rosie King have been nominated for the first annual Poetry award from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.
• The following poems by Hummingbird Press poets have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio: By Barbara Bloom from On the Water Meridian: • “Making Things Right” on October 21, 2007. • “Vancouver to Edmonton” September 28, 2007. By Rosie King from Sweetwater, Saltwater: • “After Miss Shelley, Miss Hattersley, Miss Guilford—” on June 5, 2007. • “Old South School” on May 3, 2007. • “Visitation” on March 30, 2007. • “Saturdays” on March 23, 2007. By Amber Coverdale Sumrall from her first collection of poems, Litany of Wings, published by Many Names Press: • “Reunion” on August 2, 2005. By Debra Spencer from Pomegranate: • “At the Arraignment” on March 13, 2005. • “The Discovery of Sex” on March 11, 2005. • “Moment of Inertia” on March 9, 2005 and reread on March 9, 2008. • “Day Bath” on March 8, 2005 and reread on March 8, 2008.