Hive Live! with Alexandra Lytton Regalado and Jennifer Tseng
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, May 14, 2024 7pm - 8:30pm
Location
Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Ave
Details
Join The Hive Poetry Collective as they host The Hive Live! Tuesday, May. 14, 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA. Featured poets for the evening are Alexandra Lytton Regalado and Jennifer Tseng.
Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, editor, and translator. She is the author of Relinquenda, winner of the National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2022); the chapbook Piedra (La Chifurnia, 2022); and the poetry collection, Matria, the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Alexandra holds fellowships at CantoMundo and Letras Latinas; she is winner of the Coniston Prize; and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, poets.org, World Literature Today, Narrative, and The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, among others. Her translations of contemporary Latin American poetry appear in Poetry International, FENCE, and Tupelo Quarterly and she is translator of Family or Oblivion by Elena Salamanca. She is co-founding editor of Kalina, a press that showcases bilingual, Central American-themed books and is assistant editor at SWWIM Every Day an online daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets. www.alexandralyttonregalado.com
Jennifer Tseng’s new book, Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive, poems made with her late father’s English letters, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by University of Massachusetts Press this spring. She teaches literature and creative writing at University of California, Santa Cruz.
ABOUT THE HIVE:
Along with its bi-monthly poetry readings, The Hive Poetry Collective hosts weekly radio shows Sunday nights at 8 p.m. on KSQD FM 90.7. You can find more information at hivepoetry.org.
