Hive Poetry Collective Mission

To bring a diverse community together in appreciation
of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people.

The Hive’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We believe that poetry, through its beauty and craft, changes people’s minds,
opens them to fresh ideas, self-reflection, and self-inquiry.
In so doing, poetry has the power to inspire social change.

Pursuing a vision of equity, diversity, and inclusion, we resolve
to create a space which honors diversity across all lines of difference,
including age, economic circumstance, ethnicity, sex, race, range of ability,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, and poetic styles.

We aim to challenge beliefs and assumptions about our differences and explore new, uncharted areas in our programming. Given that inclusion and openness is an evolving process, we recognize we will always have room for growth, but we pledge to consider various perspectives in order to make real, lasting, and equitable change.

Members

Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian-American writer in Santa Cruz. Her debut book, Sister Tongue, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Tracy K. Smith. Farnaz’s poetry and prose appears or is forthcoming in Grist Journal, Catamaran Literary Reader, Crab Orchard Review, Tahoma Literary Review, phren-z.org, Tupelo Quarterly, and several anthologies (including The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me). Farnaz taught Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1997-2018 and has been awarded residencies from Djerassi, PLAYA, Marble House Project, Vermont Studio Center and I-Park Foundation.

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Dion O’Reilly is the author of three poetry collections: Sadness of the Apex Predator, a finalist for the Steel Toe Book Prize and the Ex Ophidia Prize; Ghost Dogs, winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, The Independent Press Award for Poetry, and honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Poetry Award; and Limerence, a finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition, from Floating Bridge Press. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, The Slowdown, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A private workshop facilitator and co-editor of En•Trance Journal, she splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington.

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Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Avatar Review, Edison Literary Review, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, phren-Z, Pirene’s Fountain, The Wax Paper, and West Branch among others. She co-founded Santa Cruz Writes and is the retired director of the Young Writers Program, which she established in 2012. She received the Gail Rich Award in 2017 for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County and has taught as both a classroom teacher and a writing specialist.

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Julie Murphy’s poems appear in The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Atlanta Review, Massachusetts Review, The Buddhist Poetry Review, CALYX, SWWIM, Common Ground Review, The Louisville Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, Crack the Spine, and How to Love the World, among other journals and anthologies. A licensed psychotherapist, Julie developed Embodied Writing™ taught poetry at Salinas Valley State Prison and the county jail. She is a founding member of the Right to Write Press. She lives in Santa Cruz County, CA and is a member of the Community of Writers. 

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Roxi Power is a poet, performer, and publisher whose book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published in 2023.  Her next book, Knot Narrative, is forthcoming from Carbonation Press. She founded and edits the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts, at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches.  Roxi performs Live Film Narration, or “Neo-Benshi,” around the country. She received an AWP Intro Award and has been published in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University.

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Members