Featured Reader: Poet Stephen Kessler

The work of Stephen Kessler, a Santa Cruz poet, editor and translator, has been widely published. Most recently his poetry collections include Scratch Pegasus (Swan Scythe Press, 2013); The Mental Traveler (Greenhouse Review Press, 2010); Burning Daylight (Littoral Press, 2007) among others. His translations of the poet Luis Cernuda have received numerous awards including a Lambda Literary Award for Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda (City Lights, 2004) and the Harold Morton Landon Award for translation from the Academy of American Poets for Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press, 2009).

The public is welcome to read their own original work at the open mic. Usually readers have up to five minutes. Sign-ups are at 2:15 p.m. and priority is given to people who did not read the previous month.

Limited parking is behind the library accessible via the Bagelry parking lot on Soquel Drive.