Jingle bell rhymes will be challenged this Tuesday when locals gather to read poems at Poetry Santa Cruz' now-regular "Favorite Poem Project.
 
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. at the New Davenport Cash Store, Highway 1, Davenport. A donation of $3 is requested.

To get a poetic mood started, below is a piece of a poem sent in by Santa Cruz resident Wallace Wood who wanted us to know about formerly local poet Lorna Dee Cervantes and her book "Drive: The First Quartet; new poems, 1980-2005" Wings Press, $24.95.

Fifteen years in the writing, Cervantes' collection includes art by Dylan Morgan of Santa Cruz along with poems like "Love in New York," which includes the lines: "Snow sifted in strands/upon the slicked elms/It settled in branches,/gentle as my fan of black/would be upon your chest;/the waft/at the thought of your hair/made me ache from the cold/of wanting you —/your love, the sick/sparrow of your heart ..."

Cervantes, who is now an associate professor at the University of Colorado, founded MANGO in 1976, the small press and Chicano literary journal that first published the first works of Sandra Cisneros, Alberto Rios and Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Read more here.

Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel

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