Poetry Reading with Paula Jones on March 23 at 2 pm

Details of this event at Santa Cruz Zen Center will be posted as they are set.

Biography:

Paula Jones is a teacher at Floating Zendo in San Jose. Paula became a student of Kobun Chino’s the first night she attended Santa Cruz Zendo. That year she, with her very young daughter, joined the residents in practice at the School Street House next to the zendo. During that time, she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills, where she first met Angie Boissevain. She later spent some days working and more days sitting sesshins in the earliest days at Jikoji Zen Center.

After many moves and many years, having arrived again at Jikoji for Kobun’s funeral, she exchanged bows with Angie. Not too long afterward, she became her student. Since receiving transmission from Angie in 2014, she has shared some of Angie’s teaching duties, which include giving Dharma talks and leading sesshins at Jikoji.

Paula earned a Masters in Creative Writing at San Francisco State and soon began teaching English and poetry in Santa Cruz, then at a small town near a naval weapons center on the East Side of the Sierra Mountains. After moving to San Diego she taught many poetry workshops, including at the University of San Diego, where she taught literature and writing classes as a part-time teacher