MONTEREY BAY POETRY CONSORTIUM

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.  His poems have been featured on National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.  He resides in Santa Cruz.

Samuel Salerno grew up on the central coast in Carmel.  He went to Pepperdine University, and he also holds Masters degrees from the University of London and Wesleyan University.  His poetry has appeared in Free Verse, Red River Review, The California Quarterly, and Freshwater, among others.  Published collections include Pygmalion's Cross, The New World, and a chapbook, Spirithouse (Lighthouse Press).  Sam co-hosts the monthly Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium readings with Kathryn Petruccelli, and he is currently an English Instructor at the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach.

Where:  East Village Coffee Lounge

              498 Washington St., Monterey

When:   Tuesday, January 13th   7:00pm

Admission:  $5.00

For more information, please contact John Laue: 831.684.0854

Co-Sponsored by the National Writers Union, Chapter 7,

http://nwu7.org & Monterey Poetry Review.