On the second Sunday of each month, come to Old Capitol Books to see the poets of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium. This afternoon's featured poets are Stephen Kessler and Simon Hunt, who will read from their work. There is a suggested donation of $5.

Stephen Kessler’s poems, translations, essays, criticism, and journalism have appeared over the last fifty years in hundreds of literary magazines, newspapers, anthologies and books, most recently Garage Elegies, new poems from Black Widow Press. His translations of Luis Cernuda have received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Poetry, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Center USA Translation Award. His version of Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cortázar received a Northern California Book Award. He is also the editor and principal translator of The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges, and the author of a novel, The Mental Traveler. His columns appear regularly on the opinion pages of the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey Herald.

Simon Hunt’s first collection of poetry, Lesser Magi, is published this month, June 2018, by Hummingbird Press and will be available at the reading. Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and raised in England and the United States, he co-edited Renaissance Culture and the Everyday (1999) and contributed an essay to that volume. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Measure, Homestead Review, Light Quarterly, The Raintown Review, The Seventh Quarry, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. He has taught English at various levels in California, Missouri, and Nevada.