The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Gary Young is a poet, artist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, among them That’s What I Thought, and American Analects, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror, translations from the Japanese; Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese; Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the California Arts Council, among others. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, for Excursive (Roof Books), Thirst & Sufeit (Threadsuns Press), and, collaboratively with Susanne Dyckman, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press). In the past five years, Robinson has received Editors’ Choice Awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters, and a Pushcart Prize. Vulnerabiity Index is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025.

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This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.