Poetry Center San Jose presents the Well-Red Poetry Reading Series at Works/San Jose! Tonight we'll be hearing readings by Stephen Kessler and William Greenwood. Admission is a suggested donation of $2, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer, and translator based in Santa Cruz. His most recent books are Where Was I? (prose poems), Need I Say More? (essays), and Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems [1924-1949] by Luis Cernuda (translation). His previous translations of Cernuda, Desolation of the Chimera, and Written in Water, received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Lambda Literary Award, respectively.

William Greenwood grew up in California where he worked with farm workers from the 1960s during early unionization through the 1980s. Subsequently, he worked on agricultural and small business projects in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Returning to his home state in 2010, he now lives in Sonoma County. He authored Into the Center of America, a 1976 poetry chapbook published by Green Horse Press, which he cofounded. He is also the translator of a selection from Guatemalan poet Arqueles Morales’ La Paz Aún No Ganada.