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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nContact: Julia McDermott 831-454-0478\n\nVoices of 
 Veterans: Poetry Jam on December 21, 2017 at the Santa Cruz County Veterans 
 Memorial Building\n\nThe Veterans Poetry Circle of Santa Cruz will recite 
 poems from their new anthology, Voices of Veterans, on Thursday, December 
 21 from 7 to 9 pm at the Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St, Santa 
 Cruz, CA, 95060. Eight Veteran poets have been meeting weekly with circle 
 leader Ruth Mota to write and share their verse. For anyone interested in 
 understanding Veteran experiences, poetry provides insight in a way that 
 can be both enlightening and healing.\n\nThe recital will include live 
 music with drums, mandolin and Tibetan bells. Local award-winning poet 
 Ellen Bass will join the circle as a special guest and read from her 
 collected poems. Come celebrate with us, join the circle and bring a poem 
 to share. Admission is free for Veterans and the general public is asked to 
 donate $10. Proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial 
 Building.\n\nRuth Mota has taught poetry to men at the Rountree 
 Correctional Facility in Watsonville. Anthologies of their work collected 
 by Ruth can be found in the Santa Cruz and Watsonville Library System. 
 Ruth’s poetry has been published in local literary journals and will soon 
 appear in a national anthology of poems by teachers working in the US jail 
 and prison systems. \n\nEllen Bass is the author of eight poetry 
 collections, the most recent of which is Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon 
 Press, 2014), which The New York Times notes “pulses with sex, humor and 
 compassion.” She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American 
 Poets in 2017 and is the recipient of fellowships from the California Arts 
 Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Lambda 
 Literary Award for Poetry, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and three 
 Pushcart Prizes. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific 
 University.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/17/18805341.php
SUMMARY:Voices of Veterans Poetry Jam with Ellen Bass
LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/17/18805341.php
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