Three hundred people filled the Merrill Cultural Center to hear celebrated poet Ellen Bass deliver the keynote presentation ...

SANTA CRUZ — Local poet Ellen Bass spoke from the lectern as more than 500 people filled the Merrill Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz last Thursday for the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading.

June Neas Bryer-Bass patiently sat on her mother Sally Neas’s lap as June’s grandmother (and Sally’s mother-in-law) Ellen Bass read her poetry at the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading last ...