Please join us in celebrating the publication of Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry 2026), a poetry collection about girldom and friendship set on the rocky Atlantic coast by Rebecca Hart Olander. In addition to being a poet, Olander is the editor and publisher at Perugia Press, a press dedicated to publishing first and second books by women poets.
Olander will be joined by Santa Cruz poet Lisa Allen Ortiz and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson both of whom had first books published by Perugia Press. That first book by Lisa Ortiz was set in Santa Cruz Natural History Museum!
Come listen to poetry in the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum, learn more about Perugia Press, enjoy refreshments and a special pop-up display featuring Museum founder Laura Hecox’s historic scrapbooks.
Reception begins at 6:30pm and reading begins at 7:00pm.
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Poet and editor Rebecca Hart Olander is author of Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry 2026) and Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry 2021). She is editor and publisher at Perugia Press, dedicated to publishing new women poets since 1997.
Lynne Thompson was the 4th Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. She is author of Blue on a Blue Palette (Boa Editions 2024) , Fretwork winner of the 2018 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, Start with a Small Guitar (What Books Press 2013) and Beg No Pardon winner of the 2007 Perugia Press Prize.
Lisa Allen Ortiz is the author of Stem, winner of the 2021 Idaho Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky and Guide to the Exhibit, winner of the 2016 Perugia Press Prize.