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Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
The Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009).
Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize (recipient receives a $1,000 prize).
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Ellen Bass's other books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by Ow Family Properties; Donna F. Mekis; Side By Side Studios; Bookshop Santa Cruz; The Hive Poetry Collective; Cabrillo College English Department; Special Collections and Archives; Cowell College, Merrill College, and Porter College at UC Santa Cruz.
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