Poets Phillip Barron and Karen Terrey
Read at the John Natsoulas Gallery
January 21st at 8PM
The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome poets Phillip Barron and Karen Terrey on Thursday, January 21st at 8 P.M. They will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1st Street in Davis.
Phillip Barron grew up in Florida and South Carolina and studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a Master of Arts in philosophy. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 2015 and, he currently teaches courses in philosophy and the humanities at Woodland Community College. His first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, won the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award, and was published by Fourteen Hills Press of San Francisco.
Barron is also the author of the non-fiction book The Outspokin’ Cyclist (Avenida Books, 2010), a collection of his newspaper columns on bicycling. His non-fiction prose has also appeared in Orion, Saw Palm, Inside Higher Ed, and Radical Philosophy Review, and his photography and digital art have shown in galleries in North Carolina and Minnesota.
Karen Terrey is a poet, editor and writing coach, working with many writers in workshops and individual coaching sessions through her business Tangled Roots Writing. She also teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College and Sierra College, and volunteers with youth writing programs. She has been awarded a number of grants and scholarships, and recently completed a month-long writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her MFA at Goddard College. Her poetry chapbook Bite and Blood is available from Finishing Line Press.
Terrey is also a recipient of a Sierra Arts Endowment Grant, the John Woods Scholarship to Prague Summer Program, the Steve Turner Scholarship to Surprise Valley Writer’s Conference, and a scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in Rhino, Edge, Meadow, WordRiot, Puerto Del Sol, Wicked Alice, Canary, and Gray Sparrow Journal.
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 starts at 9 PM, and the after-party at about 10. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted and produced by Andy Jones, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Who: Phillip Barron and Karen Terrey
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, January 21st at 8 P.M.
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street
Media Contact: Andy Jones
Email: aojones@gmail.com
The John Natsoulas Gallery 530-756-3938
www.poetryindavis.com
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