Tag: Local Poets Thu, May 17, 2012
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National Poetry Month Ramps Up
ArtsLit Apr 10, 2012, by Traci Hukill
T.S. ELIOT’s The Waste Land opens with this: “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” Had the great modernist complained of September, National Poetry Month might have been lost amid county fairs and the first weeks of school.
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Santa Cruz Poet Releases Career Collection
ArtsLit Nov 29, 2011, by Stephen Kessler 1 Comments
When Robert Sward arrived in Santa Cruz in 1985, he instantly became the area’s most nationally famous resident poet. Thanks to his much-anthologized poem “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9,” the first he ever published and one that remains a classic 50 years later, local writers knew Sward’s name and welcomed him as a borderline celebrity. Ever since then he has thrived here as a prolific poet, novelist, journalist, teacher and, in recent years, poetry editor of the Santa Cruz Weekly.
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