Please help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie’s Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading at 6pm.

“Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious… Maybe we should refer to Juliana Leslie’s poems as cascades, not collages; maybe she has given us a new form. If so, it is a form of beauty, mystery, and thoughtfulness. They give me courage, and I think others will find courage in her gentle cascades as well.” —Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series Judge

“Juliana Leslie’s exciting new book is constantly opening up and breaking into light, revelation, and sound. Green Is for World is a surprising book, wondrously achieved and lovingly composed.” —Peter Gizzi

Poet Juliana Leslie holds degrees from UC Santa Cruz, Mills College and UMass Amherst and is currently finishing a Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of three chapbooks and of the full-length collection, More Radiant Signal, published in 2010 by Letter Machine Editions. She is also currently a co-organizer of the UC Santa Cruz Poetry and Politics Research Group and a founding editor of the Poetry and Politics Imprint.