The Hive Live! presents Francesca Bell and Jamaica Baldwin
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023 7pm - 8:30pm
Location
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Details
Join The Hive Poetry Collective as they host The Hive Live! Tuesday, July. 18, 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Featured poets for the evening are Francesca Bell and Jamaica Baldwin. Register to attend by clicking here.
Francesca Bell is a poet and translator. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Julie Suk Award, and What Small Sound (Red Hen Press, 2023). She translated Max Sessner’s collection, Whoever Drowned Here (Red Hen Press, 2023), from its original German. Her work appears widely in magazines such as ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, North American Review, Mid-American Review, and Rattle. Bell grew up in Washington and Idaho and did not complete middle school, high school, or college. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx, the translation editor of Los Angeles Review, and the Marin County Poet Laureate. She lives with her family in Novato.
Jamaica Baldwin’s debut collection, Bone Language, will be published on June 15th, 2023 by YesYes Books. Her poetry has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review, among others. Her awards include a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Aspen Words, Storyknife, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently the associate editor of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she is pursuing her PhD in English with a focus on poetry and Women's and Gender Studies. She is originally from Santa Cruz, CA.
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.
