Beginning its fifth year in the city of Davis, the Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Rae Gouirand on Thursday, January 19th at 8 P.M. She will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1st Street.
Rae Gouirand’s poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia, The Kenyon Review: KROnline, Seneca Review, jubilat, Spinning Jenny, Bateau, Michigan Quarterly Review, Memoir (and), and two recent volumes of the Best New Poets series, & were selected for Verse Daily‘s Best of 2010 list. Her first collection of poems, Open Winter, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Four Way Books Levis Prize, the Fordham University Press Poets Out Loud Prize, Utah State University’s May Swenson Award, Ohio State University Press’ The Journal Award, CSU-Fresno’s Philip Levine Poetry Prize, the Crab Orchard Poetry Series, Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitski Prize, the Barrow Street Press Book Prize, the Dream Horse Press Book Prize, and other awards before being selected this past July by Elaine Equi for the 2011 Bellday Prize for Poetry.
An alumna of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Rae is the winner of the Meijer Fellowship, the Hopwood Award, and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Santa Fe Art Institute; a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize; and the recipient of a 2009 award from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation for outstanding work by emerging poets. She lives in Davis, California, teaches private workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction, and works the double shift as Education Programs Manager for Memoir Journal and Writer-in-Residence for the nation’s only conservancy-sponsored public arts program at Cache Creek Nature Preserve.
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, organized and hosted by Andy Jones, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Who: Rae Gouirand
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, January 19th, 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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