Esteemed poet, and Santa Cruz mainstay, Robert Sward, has graciously agreed to become co-curator of A New Cadence Poetry Series.   Welcome, Robert!

ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada), now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2012, was published by Red Hen Press.

Born and raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada. Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria K. Alford.

For more info see:  www.robertsward.com

see also Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 206.

and, Garrison Keillor reads "God is in the Cracks"
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3