The Hive Live! presents Sarah Ali and sam sax

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• Tuesday, Mar 12, 2024  7pm - 8:30pm

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Join The Hive Poetry Collective as they host The Hive Live! Tuesday, Mar. 12, 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA. Featured poets for the evening are Sarah Ghazal Ali and sam sax. Register to attend by clicking here.

Sarah Ghazal Ali, a UC Santa Cruz alum, is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Djanikian Scholar, Stadler Fellow, and winner of the 2022 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems and essays appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and lives in the Bay Area, California. Learn more at sarahgali.com.

sam sax is the author of the poetry collections PIG (Scribner, 2023); bury it (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), winner of the James Laughlin Award; madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of the National Poetry Series and selected by Terrance Hayes; and four chapbooks. They earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and Stanford University.
Sax is a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion. They have won a Gulf Coast Prize, an Iowa Review Award, and an American Literary Award. Their poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, and other journals. In 2018, sax was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. They currently work as a lecturer in the ITALIC Program at Stanford University.

This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.