Poetry Santa Cruz
Poetry Santa Cruz
Books

Below is an incomplete listing of published poetry books written by Santa Cruz County/Monterey Bay poets (including some formerly resident here and still strongly associated with the area). Also included are anthologies and books about poetry edited by local authors, and books of translation by local authors of poetry in foreign languages. Not included are periodicals and anthologies in which one or a few poems by a local author appear. These are much too numerous to list. Please e-mail us any additions or corrections.

When possible, we have linked to the publishers or independent bookstores online which carry these books. Click on the bookstore's name to either purchase by mail or pick up the book at the store. Outside of the Santa Cruz area, please visit BookSense.com to find independent bookstores near you.

We have also created a Featured books page to highlight books by our recent and upcoming visiting writers.

Books by Santa Cruz area writers



Frances Payne Adler

 
 
 
 
 

Francisco X. Alarcón
  • Laughing Tomatoes And Other Spring Poems/jitomates Risuenos Y Otros Poemas De Primavera (The Magical Cycle of the Seasons Series) with Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children’s Book Press; Bilingual edition, 2005)
  • From the Bellybutton of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems / Del Ombligo de la Luna: Y Otros Poemas de Verano (The Magical Cycle of the Seasons Series) with Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children’s Book Press; Bilingual edition, 2005)
  • Angels Ride Bikes: And Other Fall Poems / Los Angeles Andan en Bicicleta: Y Otros Poemas de Oto–o (The Magical Cycle of the Seasons Series) with Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children’s Book Press; Bilingual edition, 2005)
  • Iguanas in the Snow: And Other Winter Poems / Iguanas en la Nieve: Y Otros Poemas de Invierno (The Magical Cycle of the Seasons Series) with Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children’s Book Press; Bilingual edition, 2005)
  • Poems to Dream Together/poemas Para Sonar Juntos: Poemas Para Sonar Juntos, with Paula Barragan (Lee & Low Books; Bilingual edition, 2005)
  • From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2002)
  • Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 2001)
  • Snake Poems (Chronicle Books, 1992)
  • De Amor Oscuro / Of Dark Love (Moving Parts Press, 1992)
  • Loma Prieta (We Press, 1990)
  • Vortice: Literatura, Arte y Critica (2:2,3 verano) (Stanford University, 1979)


Julia Alter
  • Walking the Hot Coal of the Heart, 2004, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
 

Nicola Amadora

 
 
 
 
 

Len Anderson
  • Invented by the Night, 2011, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Affection for the Unknowable, 2003, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • BEEP, 2003, Night Machinery Press). Available from Bookworks Aptos or from the author.


 
 
 
 
 

Charles Atkinson
  • Fossil Honey, 2006, Hummingbird Press
  • Because We Are Men, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Series, 2006. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • The Only Cure I Know, 1991, San Diego Poets Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


 
 
 

Kate Aver Avraham
  • Perhaps the Truth is Also Blue, awarded the In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award 2011 (Poetry Santa Cruz, 2011)
  • What Will You Be, Sara Mee?, poetry for children, 2010, Charlesbridge Publishing
  • Joey’s Way, children’s book, 1992, MacMillan/M. McElderry Books.


 
 
 

Ellen Bass
  • The Human Line, 2007, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Mules of Love, 2002, BOA Editions [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Courage to Heal, (prose) ed. with Laura Davis, 1994, Harper Perennial [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • No More Masks!, An Anthology of Poems By Women, edited with Florence Howe, 1973, Anchor Press/Doubleday.


 
 

Nathan Israel Beck

 
 
 
 
 

Rebecca Black

 
 
 
 
 

Barbara Bloom

 
 
 
 
 
Angie Boissevain
  • Notes from Here, awarded the In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award 2010 (Poetry Santa Cruz, 2010)


 
 
 

Lorna Dee Cervantes
  • Drive: The First Quartet (Wings Press, Jan. 2006)
  • From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger, (Arte Pœblico Press, 1991)
  • Emplumada, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.


 
 

Dane Cervine
  • The Way God Laughs, 2012, One Pony Press
  • Fist, Palm, Hand, 2008, One Pony Press
  • The Last Days, 2007, One Pony Press
  • The Jeweled Net of Indra, Plain View Press, 2007
  • News from a Burning Man, 2006, One Pony Press
  • What a Father Dreams: Poems of Family, Love & Aging, Xlibris, 2005
  • Moving the Dark God’s Hand, 2005, One Pony Press
  • Speaking in Tongues, 2004, One Pony Press
  • Blue in the Face, 2003, One Pony Press
  • Fiercely Everything, 2001, One Pony Press
    [all titles available at Bookshop Santa Cruz or from the author]

Bryant Clifford
J.C. aka John Cosgrave
  • Wildlife in the Redwoods, 1997, available from the author (831-338-3948)

Lynika Cruz
Andy Couturier
  • A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance, (Stonebridge Press, 2010)
  • Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer, (Ulysses Press, 2005)


Bruce Cutler
 
 

Rufus Daigle

 
 
 

J.P. Dancing Bear
  • The Abandoned Eye, 2012, FutureCycle Press
  • Family of Marsupial Centaurs and other birthday poems, 2012, Iris Press
  • Inner Cities of Gulls, March 15, 2010, Salmon Poetry.  Available from Salmon Poetry.
  • Conflicted Light, 2008, Salmon Poetry.  Available from Salmon Poetry.
  • Gacela of Narcissus City, 2006, Main Street Rag (chapbook)
  • What Language, 2002, Slipstream Press (chapbook)
  • Billy Last Crow, 2004, Turning Point Books [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Blue Hand, 2002, Pudding House Press (chapbook)
  • Gods of America, 2001, Laughing Bear (chapbook)
  • Prospero in Therapy, 1999, Dream Horse Press (chapbook)
  • Disjointed Constellations, 1998, Toth Press (chapbook)
  • What Language, 1996, Toth Press (chapbook)

Jenny D’Angelo
Sandra Dasmann
  • Praying For Fog, 2003, Spindrift Press

Maria Davico
  • Corpo Sonoro, 2005 (in Portuguese)

Guarionex Delgado
  • Being Human, Poems of Resistance and Renewal, 2001, Rim of Fire Press [available at Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Susan Samuels Drake
  • Fields of Courage : Remembering Cesar Chavez & the People Whose Labor Feeds Us, 1999, Many Names Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Terri Drake
  • At the Seams, 1998, Bear Star Press [Amazon.com]



Pamela Eakins

  • Heart, Breath, and Graceful Movement, 2006, Wild Girl Publishing.


The Emerald St. Poets
  • Harvest from the Emerald Orchard, 2007, an anthology of the Emerald St. Poets: Julia Alter-Canvin, Len Anderson, Virgil Banks, Dane Cervine, Jenny D’Angelo, Guarionex Delgado, Kathleen Flowers, Robin Lysne, Joanna Martin, Phyllis Mayfield, Maggie Paul, Stuart Presley, Carol Rodriguez, Joan Safajek, Lisa Simon, Robin Straub and Philip Wagner.  Available from the authors.


 
 
 



Dion Farquhar



 
 
 
 



Kathleen Flowers

  • Call it Gladness, awarded the In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award 2008 (Poetry Santa Cruz, 2008)


Carolyn Brigit Flynn, editor.

  • Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women. 2008, Wild Girl Publishing. Contributors include Deena Metzger, Gail Brenner, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, Kate Aver Avraham, Linda Holiday, Andrea van de Loo, Patti Sirens, Carolyn Davis Rudolph, Maria Papacostaki, Mary Camille Thomas, Marigold Fine, Connie Batten, Lisa Espenmiller, Gretchen Sentry, Jean Mahoney.
  • The New Story: Creation Myths for Our Times, 2003, . Available in Bookshop Santa Cruz or from The Kindred Spirit.
    Foreword by Pamela Eakins. Contributors: Johanna Bochner, Cassandra Brown, Melody Culver, Marigold Fine, Carolyn Brigit Flynn, Cara Lamb, Jane Nyberg, Jean Mahoney, Maggie Muir, Judy Phillips, Dawn Roh, Carolyn Davis Rudolph, Caroline Rupp, Karen Sallovitz, Gretchen Sentry, Mary Camille Thomas.



Diana Garcia



 
 
 
 

Peter Gizzi
Bert Glick
  • I Used To Be Me: Selected Poems, 2002, Marimbo Communications
  • Cookie Aura: Selected Poems, 1977, Crosscut Saw Press

Geoffrey Gluckman
  • Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, Griffin, 2005 [Geoffrey Gluckman contributor, edited by Sarah Bynoe] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Erica Goss

Patricia Grube
  • Layer by Layer, 2011, Chartreuse Publications. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz or from the author.
  • The Green Door, 2002, Chartreuse Publications.


Oscar L. Guzman

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
  • A Most Improbable Life (Finishing Line Press, 2003)

 

Lou Harrison
  • Joys and Perplexities: Selected Poems of Lou Harrison, 1984, Jargon Society [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


Ellen Hart
Diana Hartog

Frances Hatfield
  • Rudiments of Flight, October 2012, Wings Press.

Peggy Heinrich
  • Forward Moving Shadows: A Tanka Memoir, with photographs by John Bolivar, 2012. Available from iUniverse and the author.
  • Peeling an Orange, 2009, Modern English Tanka Press.  Available from Lulu.com.
  • A Minefield of Etceteras, 2006, iUniverse, Inc.  Available from iUniverse and the author.
  • Sharing the Woods, 1992, Old Sandal Press.  Available in Bookshop Santa Cruz and other local bookstores and the author.


 
 
Kabir Helminski
  • On the Way of Love: Songs Inspired by Rumi, CD by Ruby (Lisa Ferraro, Erika Luckett, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, 2009, PranavasonicProductions BMI.  www.WorldofRuby.com.
  • Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey, 2008, Shambhala.
  • The Rumi Collection, translations of Rumi, with Andrew Harvey, 2005, Shambhala.
  • Love Is a Stranger: Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, translations of Rumi, 2000, Shambhala.
  • The Pocket Rumi Reader, (Shambhala Pocket Classics) 2001, Shambhala.
  • The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems, by Yunus Emre, translations by Kabir Helminski and Refik Algan (Shambhala Pocket Classics) 1999, Shambhala.
  • Living Presence, 1992, Tarcher.
  • See other items on Amazon.com


 
 
Nick Herbert
  • Harlot Nature: Selected Verse 2000-2012, 2012, Sea CreaturePress
  • Physics on All Fours: Selected Verse 1995-2000, 2000, Sea CreaturePress
  • Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics, 1994, Plume
  • Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, 1989, New American Library
  • Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics, 1987, Anchor


 
Daniela Hurezanu
  • Eyeseas [Les Ziaux], poems of Raymond Queneau translated from the French with Stephen Kessler, 2008, Black Widow Press.


 
 

Alta Ifland

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

J. W. James
  • Fish Dreams, or St. Anthony’s Sermon, 2004, Edwin Mellen Press, available through the author with author’s discount


 
 
 
 
 

J. Esmé Jel’enedra
  • Stilt Walking at Midnight, 2004, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
Stephen Kessler
  • The Tolstoy of the Zulus: on culture, arts & letters, (essays) 2011, El Léon Literary Arts
  • The Sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges, poems of Jorge Luis Borges translated from the Spanish, Stephen Kessler as editor and principal translator, 2010, Penguin Classics
  • The Mental Traveler, a novel, 2010, Greenhouse Review
  • Desolation of the Chimera, poems of Luis Cernuda translated from the Spanish, 2009, White Pine Press
  • Eyeseas [Les Ziaux], poems of Raymond Queneau translated from the French with Daniela Hurezanu, 2008, Black Widow Press
  • Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation, (essays) 2008, El Léon Literary Arts
  • Burning Daylight, November, 2007, Littoral Press
  • Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda, translated from the Spanish, 2004, City Lights Books
  • Aphorisms, by César Vallejo, translated from the Spanish, 2002, Green Integer [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Machu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda, translated from the Spanishby Stephen Kessler with photos by Barry Brukoff , 2001, Bullfinch
  • Tell It to the Rabbis and Other Poems, 2001, Creative Arts
  • After Modigliani, 2000, Creative Arts
  • Ode to Typography, by Pablo Neruda, translated from the Spanish, 1998, Peter Koch Printer, bilingual edition
  • Save Twilight: Selected Poems, by Hugo Cortázar, translated from the Spanish, 1997, City Lights Books, bilingual edition [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • From Beirut, by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1992, Pygmy Forest Press
  • Akrílika, by Juan Felipe Herrera, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1989, Alcatraz Editions, bilingual edition
  • The Funhouse, by Fernando Alegría, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1986, Arte Público Press
  • Changing Centuries: Selected Poems, by Fernando Alegría, translated by Stephen Kessler, Latin American Literary Review Press, bilingual edition
  • Widows, by Ariel Dorfman, translated by Stephen Kessler, (novel) 1983, Seven Stories Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Living Expenses, 1980, Alcatraz Editions
  • Beauty Fatigue, 1978, Alcatraz Editions
  • Homage to Neruda, Poems by Fernando Alegría, Efraín Barquero, Oscar Hahn, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Omar Lara, Sergio Macías, Miguel Moreno Monroy, and Pablo Neruda. Translated by Stephen Kessler, 1978, Ediciones Puelche, bilingual edition
  • Thirteen Ways of Deranging an Angel, 1977, Greenhouse Review Press
  • Destruction or Love, by Vicente Aleixandre, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1976, Green Horse Press
  • Poem to Walt Disney, 1976, ManRoot Books
  • Nostalgia of the Fortuneteller, 1975, Kayak Books


 
 
 
 

Rosie King

 
 
 
 
Donna Kuhn

Ron Lampi
  • Bay of Monterey, Poems of Monterey Bay, 2010.  Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Lamp Light, A selection of short poems, 2009.  Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • The Poet Reflects, 2007.  Available from the author.
  • Poetry Is, A Selection about Poetry & the Poet’s Calling, 2002. Available from the [available from the author.
  • Advent, 1980s-2002.  Available from the author.
  • Bay of Monterey, 1983-2002.  Available from the author.
  • Technos & Psyche, A Prelude 1992/2002.  Available from the author.
  • Lamp Light, a selection of short poems 2002.  Available from the author.
  • The Giant Santa Cruz Poem, 1988-2002.  Available from the author]
  • The Multi Guy on Pacific Ave, 2000-2001.  Available from the author.
  • On The Cruz, Poems of Santa Cruz, 1980s-2001.  Available from the author.
  • The Tail of Hale-Bopp, a poem chronicle 1997/2001.  Available from the author.
  • The Cruz & other poems, 1988-1990, 2001.  Available from the author]
  • Threshold of the Millennium & other poems, 2000.  Available from the author.
  • A Femme Affair 1999-2000.  Available from the author.
  • The Great Santa Cruz Mountains Earthquake, 1989-1990.  Available from the author.
  • The Birth of Psyche & other poems, 1982-1988.  Available from the author.
  • The Lessons of Psyche, 1983-1987.  Available from the author.
  • Memory and Fire, 1972-1983.  Available from the author.


David Lau
  • Virgil and the Mountain Cat, 2009, UC Press.


 
 
 
 
 
John Laue

Theodore Berhanu Levine

 
 
 
 
 

George Lober

 
 
 
 
 
Robin Lysne
  • Heart Path: Learning to Love Yourself and Listening to Your Guides (poetry and prose), 2007, Blue Bone Books.
  • Dancing Up the Moon (poetry and prose), Conari Press.
  • Living a Sacred Life (prose), Conari Press.



Nathaniel MacKey

  • Splay Anthem, 2006, New Directions
  • Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (Contemporary North American Poetry), 2005, University of Wisconsin Press
  • Atet, A.D., 2001, City Lights [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Discrepant Engagement, 2000, University of Alabama Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Whatsaid Serif, 1998, City Lights [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • See a more complete listing at Amazon.com


Morton Marcus
  • The Star Wizard’s Legacy, , translation of six poetic sequences by Vasko Popa, 2010, White Pine Press
  • Striking through the Masks, 2008, Capitola Book Company
  • Pursuing the Dream Bone, 2007, Creative Arts
  • In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems, by Bert Meyers, edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers 2007, University of New Mexico Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Shouting Down The Silence, 2002, Creative Arts [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Moments Without Names, 2002, White Pine Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • When People Could Fly, 1997, Hanging Loose Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants : A Journey in Poems, 1988, Coffee House Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Breshnev Memo (Novel), 1981, Dell/Delacorte
  • Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast By Stars: Poems, 1972-1980, 1987, Brown Bear Reprints (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz)
  • The Armies Encamped In The Fields Beyond The Unfinished Avenues: Prose Poems, 1977, Jazz Press
  • Origins, 1987, Brown Bear Reprints (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Where The Oceans Cover Us, 1972, Capra Press
  • The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, 1992, Capitola Book Company (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz)

Donald Marsh
  • An Ice Cream Communion, 1990, Caminito Press
  • The Clouds of Magellan, 1987, Caminito Press
  • The Stone Humpers, 1970, Delacorte Press

 

Joanna Martin

 

Ric Masten


Ryan Masters
James Maughn

Joseph McNeilly

 

 

 
Kat Meads

  • Little Pockets of Alarm, (short fiction) Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2008
  • The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Benedict Roberts Duncan, (fiction) 2006
  • Sleep, (fiction) 2004
  • Quizzing the Dead, (poetry) Puddinghouse Press, 2002
  • Stress in America, (fiction) 2001
  • Night Bones, (poetry) Linear Arts, 2000
  • The Queendom, (poetry) Linear Arts, 1998
  • Born Southern and Restless, (nonfiction) Linear Arts, 1998
  • Wayward Women, (fiction) 1995
  • Filming the Everyday, (poetry) Lightning Tree Press, 1989


Hermie Medley
 
 
 

Maude Meehan
  • As If the World Made Sense (Many Names Press, 2003). Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Washing the Stones: Selected Poems, 1975-1995, (Papier-Mache Press, 1996) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Before the Snow (Moving Parts Press, 1991) [out of print]
  • Chipping Bone (Embers Press, 1985) [out of print]


William Minor
  • Mortality Suite: Poems & Music, CD, 2008.
  • Trek: Lips, Sunny, Pecker and Me (comic novel), Park Place Publications, 2007.
  • For Women Missing and Dead, book and CD.
  • Some Grand Dust, 2002, Chatoyant Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, 1997, Angel City Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Unzipped Souls: Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union, 1995, Temple University Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Goat Pan, Betty's Soup Shop Press [Order from publisher]
  • Natural Counterpoint: Poems by Paul Oehler and William Minor, Betty's Soup Shop Press [Order from publisher]
  • Poet Santa Cruz: Number 4.
  • Pacific Grove, 1974.


Ingrid Moody
  • Learning about Fire, 2012, Texas Review Press.


Neli Moody
  • After Altamira, 2006, Ishmael Reed Publishing.


Peter Nash
Martina Nicholson
  • Bread for Stardust Pilgrims, 2009, Old Mountain Press, available from the author
  • Walking on Stars and Water, 2007, Old Mountain Press, available from the author
  • My Throat Is Full of Songbirds, 2007, Old Mountain Press, available from the author

Ekua Omosupe
  • Legacy, 1997, Talking Circles Press.

Kevin Opstedal
  • California Redemption Value (University of New Orleans Press, 2011)
  • User’s Manual to the Pacific Coast Highway, (Seven Fingers Press, 2007)
  • Rare Surf, Vol. 2, New and Used Poems, (Smog Eyes Books, 2006)
  • Jungles (Gas Editions, 1992)
  • Sand in the Vaseline (Mike & Dale's, 1997)
  • California Redemption Value (Blue Press, 1998)
  • Like Rain (Angry Dog Press, 1999)
  • Crush (surfZombie, 2000)
  • Beach Blanket Massacre (Smog Eyes, 2001)
  • Nine Palms (Aurthur Klang & Sons, 2002)
  • Variable High Cloudiness (The Dozens, 2002)
  • 9th & Ocean (Auguste Press, 2002)
  • Next to Dreaming, or The Phone Never Rang (Angry Dog/Midget Edition, 2002)
  • Rare Surf, Vol. 2 (jackmagazine.com, 2003)
  • Heavy Water (Surf Donkey, 2003)
  • Radio Beach (Pelican Press, 2003)
  • El Tsunami (Auguste Press, 2004)
  • The Deep End (Plywood Press, 2004)
  • Straight Up & Down (Blue Press, 2004)

Lisa Allen Ortiz
Pamela O’Shaughnessy
  • Burning Gorgeous: Seven 21st Century Poets, (anthology), includes 40 pages each by Pamela O’Shaughnessy (Editor), Beth Pittenger and five other authors, published by the authors (2010)
  • Flying at Sea-Level, (Cross-Creek Press, 2006)

Maggie Paul
  • Borrowed World, 2011, Hummingbird Press.  Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Stones From the Baskets of Others, 2002, Black Dirt Press.  Available from the author.

Eugenia Hepworth Petty
  • Pamyat Selo (Memory Village), 2007, Premier Poets Chapbook Series: No. 33.

Dan Phillips
  • Places of the Spirit, 2014, Dandasana Books.
  • The Bali in Me, 2005, Dandasana Books.
    Both available from the author.



Dian Duchin Reed



Bernice Rendrick

  • Trainsong, awarded the In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award 2009 (Poetry Santa Cruz, 2009)

Adrienne Rich

Barbara J. Rios
  • Who Is In Charge Here?, 2002.  Available from the author. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Things Could Change, 1997.  Available from the author.
  • Taking It With Me, 1993.  Available from the author.
  • Where Is Love?, 1990.  Available from the author.
  • A Nobody In New York.  Available from the author.
  • It's Anybody's Guess.  Available from the author.

Doren Robbins
  • Amnesty Muse, 2011, Lost Horse Press.
  • My Piece of the Puzzle, 2008, Eastern Washington University Press.
  • Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry, 2004, Cedar Hill Books.
  • Driving Face Down, 2001, Eastern Washington University Press.
  • Donkey’s Tale, 1998, Red Wind Press.
  • Sympathetic Manifesto, 1987, Perivale Press.

Mark Rovan
  • Surfing the Soul, 2003.  Available from the author. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Joan Safajek
  • In Deep Time, 2012.


C.J. Sage
  • The San Simeon Zebras, March 15, 2010, Salmon Poetry.  Available from Salmon Poetry.
  • Oddysea, 2007, Turning Point Books
  • Let’s Not Sleep, 2002, Dream Horse Press


 
 
 
 
 
 

Samuel Salerno
  • Spirithouse, 2007, Lighthouse Press
  • The New World, 2005, Lighthouse Press
  • Pygmalion’s Cross, 2003, Lighthouse Press
  • Janus Dreaming, 1999, Lighthouse Press


 
 
 

Tilly Washburn Shaw
  • Swimming Closer to Shore, 2002, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
 
 
Patti Sirens

Elizabeth McBride Smith
  • Adult ABCs Plus Sins: 7 Deadly and 7 Not Quite So Deadly, Speedbump Press


 
 
 
 
 
Robin Somers
  • A Poet Must Be Lightning, 2009, Somersault Studios [www.robinsomers.com]
  • Backyard Burning, 2009, Somersault Studios [www.robinsomers.com]
  • The Chadwick Garden Anthology of Poets, editor, 2009, Somersault Studios, available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café and Bay Tree Bookstore.


Debra Spencer

 
 
 
 
Dona Luongo Stein
  • Topographies
  • Children of the Mafiosi
  • Heavenly Bodies


Joseph Stroud
  • Kingdom Come, 2011, Tangram
  • Of This World: New and Selected Poems, 2008, Copper Canyon Press
  • Ukiyo-e: Snapshots of the Floating World, 2007, Tangram
  • Three Odes by Pablo Neruda, translation, 2005, Tangram
  • Country of Light, 2004, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Burning the Years, 2002, Tangram
  • Unzen, 2001, Tangram
  • Below Cold Mountain, 1998, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Signatures : Poems (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol 8) [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • In the sleep of rivers [out of print]

 
 

David Allen Sullivan

 
 
 
 
 

Amber Coverdale Sumrall

David Swanger
  • Wayne’s College of Beauty: New and Selected Poems, 2005, BkMk Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café and Amazon.
  • This Waking Unafraid, 1995, University of Missouri Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café and Amazon.
  • Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1991, Edwin Mellen Press.


 
 

Robert Sward

Jeff Tagami

 
 
 
 
 
 
Maria Garcia Teutsch (nee Tabor)
  • there are no cars on this highway, available from the author.
  • Surrender Dorothy, available from the author.

David Thorn
  • In C Minor & Other Works

Margarite Tuchardt

Patrice Vecchione
  • Faith and Doubt : An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2007, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Revenge and Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2004, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize [Vecchione, editor], 2002, Cricket Books. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2002, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Truth and Lies : An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2001, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice By Looking Within, 2001, Contemporary Books [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Territory of Wind, 1999, Many Names Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Storming Heaven's Gate : An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Catholic Girls [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors], 1992 [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Bless Me, Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors], 1994, [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


Jean Vengua
  • Prau, 2007, Meritage Press & xPress(ed).
  • The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, edited with Mark Young (New Zealand/Australia), 2005, Meritage Press & xPress(ed).


 
 
 
 
 
 

Ken Weisner

 
 
 
 
 
 
Anita Wilkins
  • Talking to the Blindman
  • The Trees along the Road
  • Means of Approach

Elizabeth Willis
Rob Sean Wilson
  • Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists, 2011, New Pacific Press
  • Pacific Postmodern: From the Sublime to the Devious, Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific in Hawaii, 2000, Susan M. Webster Schultz
  • Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge, 2000, Duke University Press [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge, 2000, Duke University Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific (Editor), 1999, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific (Editor), 1999, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [opaperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Waking In Seoul, 1998, University of Hawaii Press
  • Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational (Editor), 1996, Duke University Press Imaginary [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational (Editor), 1996, Duke University Press Imaginary (Editor) [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, 1995, Duke University Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Asia\Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, 1994, Duke University Press (Editor) [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, 1991, University of Wisconsin Press [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, 1991, University of Wisconsin Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Michael Wolfe
  • Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs, 2012, Johns Hopkins University Press
  • One Thousand Roads to Mecca, 1997
  • The Hadj, 1993, Grove Press
  • Invisible Weapons, 1986, Creative Arts
  • In Morocco, 1980, Sombre Reptiles
  • No, You Wore Red, 1980, Tombouctou Books [out of print]
  • World Your Own, 1977, Threshold Books
  • How Love Gets Around, 1974, Soft Press [out of print]


Gary Young
  • Even So: New and Selected Poems, 2012, White Pine Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, , edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young, 2008, Greenhouse Review Press
  • Pleasure, 2006, Heyday Books [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • No Other Life, 2002, Creative Arts [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Braver Deeds, 1999, Gibbs Smith [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Dream of a Moral Life, 1990, Copper Beech Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • In the Durable World, 1985, Bieler Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Hands
  • Days

Joan Zimmerman
  • Wild Violets, 2011 Anthology of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Edited and introduced by Jerry Ball and J. Zimmerman, available pre-paid by mailing check made out to Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (YTHS) for $12 plus p&p ($5 USA; $10 for Canada, Mexico, or Europe; $12.00 for Asia, Australia, and New Zealand). Include your mailing address with your payment to: YTHS Treasurer, 6116 Dunn Avenue, San Jose, CA 95123, USA.
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