The Hive Live! presents Danusha Laméris and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

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Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024 7pm - 8:30pm

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Join The Hive Poetry Collective as they host the Hive Live! featuring Danusha Laméris and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Register to attend by clicking here.

Former Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate and co-founder of The Hive Poetry Collective, Danusha Laméris is Santa Cruz’s own. A UCSC grad and longtime contributor to the local literary scene, her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Danusha is a Pushcart Prize recipient and her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Orion. She was selected for the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in 2020, and her second book, Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the Paterson Award, and the winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. As Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, Laméris co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective; a radio show, podcast, and event hub. She is on the faculty of Pacific University's Low-Residency MFA program and teaches The Path of Poetry workshops online. Her third book is Blade by Blade, (Copper Canyon Press, 2024).

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet. She is the author of I Don’t Want to be Misunderstood (Alice James Books 2024), I'm Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019) and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (The Accomplices 2016). Jennifer lives in California with her wife, poet/essayist Eileen Elizabeth, and their cat and dog.