Ellen Bass joins Kevin Young to read “Quahogs,” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Because.” A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass has received the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry, ...

Since its inception in 2010, the annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading has become one of the most highly anticipated literary events in the Santa Cruz area, drawing luminaries of poetry from all over ...

Nicole Sealey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bass’s poem “Indigo” and her own poem “A Violence.” Sealey is the executive director at the Cave Canem Foundation and the author of the poetry ...

SANTA CRUZ — Local poet Ellen Bass spoke from the lectern as more than 500 people filled the Merrill Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz last Thursday for the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading.

Ellen Bass’s poems pulse with sex, humor and compassion. She says she writes about these things because “we are all so terribly imperfect—starting with myself. And that willingness to feel, even a ...

Poet and writer Ellen Bass spends a quiet moment with the family dog Burke in her Westside Santa Cruz studio recently. Bass who has been named 2019 Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts ...

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