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Poets of the Monterey Bay

Hummingbird Press Author Events
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.
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.
• 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.
    • “Her Legacy” April 28, 2008.

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.