Poetry Center San Jose presents our Fall Poetry Reading & Open Mic featuring Erica Goss, Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, at Great Bear Coffee. Help us welcome the first days of autumn! There will be a drawing and prizes for the first 25 people to show up for the event.

Erica Goss is interested in the juxtaposition between nature and human beings, finding inspiration in that tenuous intersection of the wild and the domesticated. Her poems often deal with how far people can encroach upon nature, where the boundaries are, and how we project our own hopes and fantasies upon the natural world.