The ANTHOLOGY OF MONTEREY BAY POETS 2004 contains poems by nearly 100 poets residing in the Monterey Bay Area.

Monterey Bay, California, is a refuge for wildlife both common and rare. This anthology collects the work of the rarest, or perhaps the wildest, of life in the region -- its poets. Drawing from the rich natural and human environment that surrounds their creators, the poems collected in this volume create a vivid postcard of life in this artistically vibrant region. (Release date: December, 2004. ISBN: 0-9661452-6-7. US$15.00)

The anthology is terrific...Individual poems demand appreciation -- yet the collective success exceeds any one poem's strength. Congratulations on a nicely balanced collection.

Dana Gioia
Poet/Chairman, NEA

Read the Introduction, written by William Minor.

Read the poets' contributors notes.

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NEWS

The Anthology was featured in the Monterey Coast Weekly. Read the article.

The Anthology was featured in the Monterey Herald. Read the article. And then they did a follow-up article after our reading in Pacific Grove. Read that one, too!

The Anthology was mentioned in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

The Anthology was featured in the Santa Cruz GoodTimes! Read the article .

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FROM THE ANTHOLOGY

ALL OVER THE PLANET

All over the planet, field of grass
lift quivering tongues in the moonlight.
They are a chorus singing of the bones
buried beneath them, and of the whisperings
of roots and seeds clinging to the sides of stones.
The planet vibrates with their song.
Such reverberations are our future,
all that will be remembered of us
among the gongs and cymbals of the galaxies
and the dissonant choirs of cosmic dust.

© Morton Marcus

WAVES: SCIENCE VS. IMAGE

Light waves, like radio, go 186,000 miles per second.
You'd think that would be too fast to see them.
    But I do, somehow or other.

The speed of sound waves varies with the barometer,
    But I don't notice.

If I stop my evening stroll along the beach
And I count the seconds between ocean waves,
There's a way to calculate how far away they were born.
    But I've forgotten how.

© Francis Cartier

Thanks to you both, Ryan and Suki, for your wonderful book, Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets. It came today and I'm so very pleased to be in it. It's gorgeous, done so well with such richness of voice and view; a lovely production.

Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Anthology contributor