Beginning its fifth year in the city of Davis, the Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome a UC Davis poetry favorite, Alan Williamson, on Thursday, February 2nd at 8 P.M. He will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1st Street in Davis.
One of the most important poet-critics of his generation, Alan Williamson has received a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship. Williamson has taught for the UC Davis English Department since 1983, having previously taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard University, and Brandeis University.
Alan Williamson studied poetry with Robert Lowell at Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in 1969. While Williamson published numerous works, including both literary criticism and his own poetry, Williamson’s Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell (1974) helped distinguish him as an esteemed poet-critic. Some of his other poetry collections include, “Love and the Soul” (The University of Chicago Press, 1995) and “The Muse of Distance” (Knopf, 1988). The University of Chicago Press stated that Williamson was “the unequalled detective of the mythic reverberations behind the psyche’s complex inner weather.”
The new millennium brought new works by Williamson. The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems (2004) inspired this praise from the University of Chicago Press: “Williamson’s verse is a refreshing example of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life . . . and the recurrence of themes across the span of four previous collections [presents] a survey of a major American poet in a single volume.” Professor Williamson directed Dr. Andy’s dissertation, and continues to be a favorite poet and professor of many students and faculty at UC Davis and beyond.
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 open mic list is usually full by the time the featured poet is introduced at 8pm. The Poetry Night Reading Series, organized and hosted by Andy Jones, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Who: Alan Williamson
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, February 2nd, 8 pm
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street
Media Contact: Andy Jones
poetryindavis@gmail.com
The John Natsoulas Gallery 530-756-3938
www.poetryindavis.com
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