The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome poet and essayist Alan Botsford, visiting from Yokohama, on Thursday, September 16th at 8 P.M. He will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1^st Street.

Alan Botsford is the author of the dialogue, essay, and poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (Sage Hill Press, 2010) and is the co-editor of Poetry Kanto, Japan’s leading bilingual poetry journal. His two previous poetry collections are A Book of Shadows (2003) and mamaist: learning a new language (2002), about which The Japan Times wrote: “[Botsford] throws out convention to create a new art…. it’s a revitalization of old forms… he breathes new life into words by the sheer brilliance of his constructions.” Born in Connecticut and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Alan holds degrees from Wesleyan University and Columbia University, and was a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry in 2001. He is currently the Associate Professor of American Literature at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan, where he lives with his wife, illustrator Minako Saitoh, and his son.

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 Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Alan Botsford
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, September 16th, 8pm
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1^st Street
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones [at] ucdavis [dot] edu
The John Natsoulas Gallery – 756-3938

The Facebook event for this event is at:

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The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Sacramento poet Danny Romero on Wednesday, September 1^st at 8 P.M. He will be performing at Bistro 33 at 226 F Street.

Danny Romero was born and raised in Los Angeles. He has degrees from University of California, Berkeley and Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught writing for many years. He currently teaches at Sacramento City College. Romero’s poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals throughout the country, such as Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, Drumvoices Revue, Paterson Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Permafrost and Solo. His work can also be found in a number of anthologies, including West of the West: Imagining California (1989), Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction (1993), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (2003), Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (2008) and Pow Wow: Charting the Faultlines in the American Experience – Short Fiction from Then to Now (2009). He is the author of the novel Calle 10 (1996) and two chapbooks of poetry. A poetry collection is forthcoming from Bilingual Press. He lives with his son in Sacramento, California.

Old cholos stop me on
the streets of Sacramento,
mistaking me for someone else
from a 1970s barrio.

They ask me:
which way to the
Greyhound Station,
Loaves and Fishes
and do I have a dollar
for the liquor store?

We talk about shooting
dope in Maravilla,
police brutality in San Jose.
California is a state of Mexico,
an anti-Mexican state.
Sacramento is the capital.

I tell old cholos
where to stand
so the light rail train
can finally take them home.

–Danny Romero

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the banquet room of Bistro 33 to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, organized and hosted by Andy Jones, and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Danny Romero
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday, September 1st, 8pm
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F Street (530 756-4556)
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones @ ucdavis . edu

The Facebook event for this event is at:

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Jill Stengel will be reading her poetry tonight at the John Natsoulas Gallery! The show begins at 8:00, and we hope to see you there!

The Open Mic begins at 9pm. No charge.

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Davis poet Jill Stengel on Thursday, August 19th at 8 P.M. She will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1^st Street.

Poet Jill Stengel celebrates the chapbook form as publisher of the prolific micropress a+bend press, with 41 chapbook titles and more in the works. Her engagement with the chapbook form is also apparent in her own poetry: she has seven published chapbooks, with two more due out this year.  Several of her chapbooks, including lagniappe, late may, and may(be) can be viewed online at www.dusie.org. Her first full-length collection is due out in early 2011 from Black Radish Books. Stengel’s poetic community activities have included teaching poetry and book arts at various levels; participating in publishing collectives and writing collectives; participating in poetry community list-servs, including the Poet-Moms listserv; publishing mem, a journal of writing by poets who are mothering young children; and curating a poetry reading series, Second Sundays at BlueBar, in San Francisco’s historically poetically rich North Beach district. This is her first reading in Davis.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the John Natsoulas Gallery to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.  The Poetry Night Reading Series, organized by Andy Jones and hosted this week by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Jill Stengel
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, August 19th, 8pm
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1^st Street
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones [at] ucdavis [dot] edu
The John Natsoulas Gallery – 756-3938

The Facebook event for this event is at:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=117700164947069&ref=mf

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Molly Fisk will be reading her poetry tonight at Bistro 33! The show begins at 8:00, and we hope to see you there!

The Open Mic begins at 9pm. No charge.

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Nevada City poet Molly Fisk on Wednesday August 4^th at 8 P.M. She will be performing at Bistro 33 at 226 F Street.

Born in San Francisco, Molly Fisk earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, her M.B.A. from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and began writing at the age of 35. She is the author of Listening to Winter, The More Difficult Beauty, Terrain (with Dan Bellm and Forrest Hamer,) and the letterpress chapbook Salt Water Poems. She has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Marin Arts Council. She’s won the Dogwood Prize, the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize in Poetry, the Billee Murray Denny Prize, and the National Writer’s Union Prize. Says poet Molly Peacock, “These poems [are] marvels of sheer whimsy and broad, wicked observation.”

Molly Fisk is a teacher of online and in-person classes and poetry writing workshops, including her famous Poetry Boot Camp (see http://poetrybootcamp.com/). A longtime host of radio shows on writing, creativity and gender issues on independent radio station KVMR, in recent years Molly has also placed radio essays in other media, including on KQED’s The California Report. Her two CDs of radio commentary are titled Blow-Drying a Chicken and Using Your Turn Signal Promotes World Peace. About her radio work, Fisk has said, “I’ve loved radio all my life for the way it enters the human brain so directly, not impeded by visual clutter. The intimacy of it, the fact that it’s so private but still so connected is compelling. I’ve fallen in love with so many radio voices, male and female, just because of that closeness. And radio seems the perfect way to convey local or national goings on, keeping people informed and at the same time reassured that the fabric of community is in place.”

Attendees at Poetry Night are encouraged to arrive early at Bistro 33 to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of the month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Molly Fisk
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday August 4^th at 8 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones [at] ucdavis [dot] edu
Bistro 33 – 756 4556

You are also invited to join the Facebook page for this event:
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And join the Poetry in Davis group on Facebook:

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James Kaelan will be reading from his book, We’re Getting On, at The Avid Reader at 617 2nd Street, Davis, as part of his Zero Emission Book Project bike tour (from Los Angeles to Vancouver).

A recent coverman for Poets & Writers magazine, James Kaelan is the former web editor/co-founder of Flatmancrooked, a full-service, independent online and print publishing house established in 2008. He graduated with a BA in English & Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, after which he earned his Fiction MFA at Boston University. He writes for The Sweet Science and Bedlam Magazine in LA. His first novel, Brute, is forthcoming in 2010. He is also the author of We’re Getting On, which is part of the Zero Emission Book Project. The first edition of We’re Getting On has birch seeds embedded in the cover, which means that if the novel is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree – thus offsetting its production emissions. The book tour is carbon-neutral as well. James will not only forego using any fossil-fueled vehicles by riding his bike 1,900 miles, but he’ll also be eating only organic, local produce.

This special event is co-hosted by the Avid Reader and the Poetry Night Reading Series. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of the month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: James Kaelan
What: Zero Emission Book Project Bike Tour
When: Monday July 19^th at 7:30 P.M.
Where: The Avid Reader, 617 Second Street
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones @ ucdavis . edu

The Facebook page for this event can be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=107634285951344&ref=ts

For more on the Zero Emission Book Tour, visit:
http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/7376

Poets and Writers Magazine: http://www.pw.org/magazine

Chris “Whitey” Erickson and Mischa Kuczynski Erickson will be reading their poetry tonight at Bistro 33!

We hope you can join us! The Open Mic begins at 9pm. No charge.

Here’s what UC Davis Professor Joe Wenderoth has to say about these two poets:

“Chris Erickson and Mischa Kuczynski are tremendously talented writers. To have the chance to hear them read is to have the chance to be shaken and seized by the shape of where we are. Or by the rushing veins of whatever it echoes with. It is a chance to free yourself, literally, from the delusion of on-going communication. It is a chance to feel the houses that you’ve slept in.”

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome local writers Whitey and Mischa Erickson on Wednesday July 7^th at 8 P.M. They will be performing at Bistro 33 at 226 F Street.

Chris “Whitey” Erickson is a graduate of the UC Davis Master’s in Creative Writing Program and author of the forthcoming book Henrytown. His work has appeared in Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Flatmancrooked’s Not about Vampires, online at benmarcus.com, and in The Hobo-Tramp Voice as “Boxcar Whitey.” According to Andy Jones, host of Poetry Night, “Whitey’s performance pieces create ecstatic hilarity from an irrepressible mix of small-town midwestern yarns and science-fiction hyperbole.”

Mischa Erickson is a graduate of the UC Davis Master’s in Creative Writing Program and holds a BFA from the University of Utah in Studio Art. A finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, she has had her work featured in the American Poetry Review, Foursquare, and Gigantic. She has completed two books of poetry, Wait and Baby.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at Bistro 33 to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.  The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of the month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Whitey and Mischa Erickson
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday July 7^th at 8 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones @ ucdavis . edu

http://poetryindavis.com

Bistro 33 – 756 4556
You are also invited to join the Poetry in Davis group on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2290130152&ref=ts

The Facebook page for this event is http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136812969677861

Come to the International House on Saturday, July 17 at 6:00 PM for a fun and culturally diverse night of poetry! This event is open to the public and refreshments will be provided.

“Experience the sensation of a different spoken language, appreciate literature, break the language barrier, step up for a cross-cultural exchange, recognize the similarity and difference in all of us,” said I-House Volunteer Jennifer Hsieh. “We’re seeking poets and readers alike who’d like to share their own poem/s during an open microphone session in the Community Room. Or the poem reader may select a chosen poem and prepare a short biography of the poet. All poems in foreign language will be translated into English and be projected during the presentation,” she said.

Poets are welcome to sign up in advance by contacting Jennifer Hsieh at (831) 840-8089 or ms.hsieh@yahoo.com.

What: International Poetry night
When: Saturday, July 17th, 6:00 PM
Where: International House Davis, 10 College Park, Davis

Sign up early and reserve your spot! More information available at http://www.internationalhousedavis.org/prog/sp/0910/poetrynight.