Author Susan Hayden will be at Tecolote Bookshop in Montecito for a reading of her memoir "Now You Are a Missing Person," and a conversation with music
"A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE ‘‘ – Some shows are selling out, so don’t wait. Yes, the brilliant author Arthur Miller’s story and words are the stars here, but they would be lifeless without gifted actors, and the Ruskin stage is overflowing with them. A story of immigrants trying so hard to fit in, to the American fabric, in a different time and place but you feel you are watching your neighbors. Lead actor Ray Abruzzo ("Sopranos") is a force of nature. Fri, Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m., Ruskin Group Theatre, SMO, $20-30.
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There’s no way Gustavo Hernandez could have avoided writing about geography. A sense of place factored into his life from the start.
“You’re always so aware of the space that you’re inhabiting when you move from one place to another,” Hernandez said.
He immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico to Santa Ana with his parents in the 1980s. His dad was a landscaper, who had weed abatement contracts with Orange County. It made sense to write about where he was born and raised. It also made sense to collage a photo of his dad at work on the cover art of his first full-length poetry collection “Flower Grand First” (Moon Tide Press, $15).
Shelton poet shares personal prose about what shaped him in Tempest
Keith Loria
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1of2Shelton poet Ryan Meyer writes about the moments that shaped him in his new poetry collection Tempest. Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
2of2 Tempest will be published on March 1.Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
Shelton native Ryan Meyer is releasing his second book of poetry, but the young writer admits that poetry wasn’t something he always had an interest in, though he did know he wanted to be a writer.
“I started writing in high school but I really started getting into poetry in college, when I took a creative writing course that was a hybrid between fiction and poetry, and the poetry part was a lot more than I expected,” he said. “That’s where I discovered my favorite poets and my favorite poems, and my interest just branched out from there.”