Poetry Pop Up at Squid Row! Reading,  Party and Book Launch for Leigh Sugar, 29 July | Event in Santa Cruz

Poetry Pop Up at Squid Row! Reading, Party and Book Launch for Leigh Sugar

Nancy Miller Gomez

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Tue, 29 Jul, 2025 at 06:00 pm

3 hours

7 Squid Row, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

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Tue, 29 Jul, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm (GMT-07:00)

7 Squid Row, CA 95060

7 Squid Row, Santa Cruz, United States

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Poetry Pop Up at Squid Row! Reading, Party and Book Launch for Leigh Sugar
Reading and party to celebrate Leigh Sugar's new collection, Freeland (Alice James). With Leigh, Nancy Miller Gomez, and Dion O'Reily.

About this Event

Join Santa Cruz Poet Laureate, Nancy Miller Gomez, Leigh Sugar and Dion O'Reilly in celebrating the debut of Leigh Sugar's poetry collection, Freeland (Alice James Books). Food and Wine provided (but feel free to bring food or beverage of your choice to share). Doors open at 6 PM for socializing. Reading begins at 7 PM, followed by a book signing. Come party with the poets on Squid Row!

About Leigh: Leigh Sugar's debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2025, and she created and edited That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral settings (New Village Press, 2023). Her work appears in POETRY, jubilat, Split this Rock, and more. She teaches poetry workshops through various organizations including Poetry Foundation, Tupelo Press, Justice Arts Coalition, etc. She also works for Commonplace, Rachel Zucker’s poetry podcast, and created/co-facilitated (with Nila Narain) Access Oriented Lit, a reading series by and for disabled poets.


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Poetry Pop Up at Squid Row! Reading,  Party and Book Launch for Leigh Sugar, 29 July | Event in Santa Cruz
Poetry Pop Up at Squid Row! Reading, Party and Book Launch for Leigh Sugar
Tue, 29 Jul, 2025 at 06:00 pm
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