Phillip Barron, Stella Beratlis, Heather Altfeld, Troy Jollimore and Paco Marquez Read at the John Natsoulas Gallery on June 20th at 8PM

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome five featured poets: Phillip Barron, Stella Beratlis, Heather Altfeld, Troy Jollimore and Paco Marquez. These headliners will perform on Thursday, June 20th at 8 P.M. at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1st Street.

Phillip Barron is a poet, writer, and award winning digital media artist. He has taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina and now teaches poetry and digital humanities at the University of California, Davis. Barron is co-editor of the journal OccuPoetry and editor of The Squaw Valley Review. His poems appear online and in print. Other writing appears in Inside Higher Ed, Radical Philosophy Review, and Urban Velo among other journals, and his photography and digital art have shown in galleries in Durham, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Phillip lives in Davis, California.
Phillip Barron’s website

Stella Beratlis is an Instructor of English at Modesto Junior College. She co-edited an anthology of Modesto poets titled More than Soil, More than Sky, on Quercus Review Press, and her poems have appeared in Penumbra, hardpan, Song of the San Joaquin, Dirty Napkin, Quercus Review, and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She is a regular participant in the Second Tuesday Poetry Series at the Barking Dog Restaurant, hosted by Modesto Poet Laureate Gillian Wegener.

Heather Altfeld teaches composition at California State University, Chico and at Butte Community College. She is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and has poetry published or forthcoming in Pleiades, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Jewish Currents, The Tule Review, The Squaw Valley Review, Clackamas, The Arroyo Review, The New Guard, The Greensboro Review, Superstition Review, Laurel Review, and Zone 3. She has just completed her first manuscript of poems, entitled The Disappearing Theatre.
Heather’s Altfeld’s Website

Troy Jollimore is a poet, book critic, essayist, and Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He received his B.A. from University of King’s College in Halifax and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University. Jollimore’s poems have been widely published in various journals including The New Yorker, Poetry, and McSweeney’s. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry in 2006. His second collection, At Lake Scugog, appeared in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011. Currently a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Humanities Center at California State University at Chico, Troy Jollimore was selected as an Outstanding Professor for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Troy Jollimore’s website

Paco Marquez is originally from Mexico and studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a board member of the Sacramento Poetry Center, a Squaw Valley Writers alumnus, and a member of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol. His poems have appeared in Occupoetry, Late Peaches: Poems by Sacramento Poets, and is forthcoming in Squaw Valley Review. He is one of the poets chosen by SMAC for the Del Paso Words & Walls project. He will start his MFA at NYU this fall as a Lillian Vernon Fellow.Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the John Natsoulas Gallery to secure a seat, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Leanne Watkins, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.

Who: Phillip Barron, Stella Bertalis, Heather Altfeld, Troy Jollimore and Paco Marquez
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, June 20th at 8 P.M.
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street

Media Contact: Leanne Watkins
Email: leawatkins@ucdavis.edu
The John Natsoulas Gallery 530-756-3938

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