The Hive Live! presents Dorianne Laux & Lee Herrick

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Tuesday, Apr 2, 2024 7pm

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, The Hive Poetry Collective will bring California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and award-winning poet Dorianne Laux to The Hive Live! Tuesday, April 2, 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA. This is a special Hive Live! event with two incredible poets.

Lee Herrick is the 10th California Poet Laureate (the first Asian-American to serve in the role) and the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This Many Miles from Desire. Co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books 2020), his poems appear widely, in The Poetry Foundation, Academy of American Poets, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice with a foreword by Common, HERE: Poems for the Planet, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted as an infant, he lives with his family in Fresno, California and served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA program at University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems is available from W.W. Norton as are her award winning books, Facts about the Moon and The Book of Men. A textbook, Finger Exercises for Poets, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton as well as in January, a new book of poems, Life on Earth. She is founding faculty at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA and a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. https://www.doriannelaux.net/