UC Santa Cruz
Cultural Center at Merrill
6:00 pm

The Humanities Institute is proud to present The Seventeenth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick. Lee Herrick is the first California Poet Laureate to be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems(2024). He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit and the AGNI Portfolio of Adoptee Writing. His writing appears in anthologies such as Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months old, he lives with his wife and daughter, and teaches in Fresno, California. Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize (recipient receives a $1,000 prize).

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