The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome poet Alice Jones on Thursday, September 20th at 8 P.M. She will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1st Street in Davis.
Alice Jones is the author of The Knot, winner of the 1992 Beatrice Hawley Award; of Isthmus, winner of the 2000 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award; and of Gorgeous Mourning, recipient of the 2001 Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She also received the Poetry Society’s Lyric Poetry Award in 2006, and her poem “Spell” won First Place in Narrative Magazine’s First Annual Poetry Contest. Her most recent poetry collection is titled Plunge (Apogee Press, 2012).
A poet, physician, and psychoanalyst, Jones has seen her work published in myriad journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, Antioch Review, and Chelsea. Her honors include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1994, her work was included in The Best American Poetry, edited by A. R. Ammons.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to 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 and produced by Evan White, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery. The Poetry Night Reading Series is made possible by the support of the Cultural Action Committee of Davis.
Who: Alice Jones
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, September 20th, 8:00 pm
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street
Media Contact: Evan White
– poetryindavis@gmail.com
The John Natsoulas Gallery 530-756-3938
www.poetryindavis.com
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