Emily Wallis Hughes and Meredith Herndon will be the featured poets at the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, January 17, 2019. Please join us at 8 PM at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1stStreet in Davis, California. An open mic will follow the featured poets.
Emily Wallis Hughes graduated with two degrees from UC Davis, including an MA in Creative Writing and English Literature, and one from New York University, an MFA in Poetry. Hughes grew up in Agua Caliente, California, a small town in the Sonoma Valley. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Menage, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prelude, A Women’s Thing, ZAUM, and other little magazines. She co-edited Slovene avant-garde poet Jure Detela’s Moss & Silver, translated by Raymond Miller with Tatjana Jamnik (Ugly Duckling Presse). Hughes currently teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers—New Brunswick, and she usually lives in Brooklyn, from where she works for Fence as Editor of Constant Critic and copy edits Fence magazine.
The new Emily Hughes book is Sugar Factoryfrom Spuyten Duyvil Publishing. About this new book, Patricia Killelea says, “Like Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” Hughes’ Sugar Factoryis a laud for the land, a deep song of praise for the ecstasy in the ordinary. Riding the train, peeling fruit, contemplating streaks of color–here we find everyday encounters opening doorways to memory, both intimate and ancestral. The result is a quietly fierce collection of poems that spans coasts and continents as it boldly ‘carries the voices of the living/and the dead.’” Find out more at http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/sugar-factory.html.
Opening for Emily Hughes will be Meredith Herndon, a poet currently working towards her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of California, Davis. Herndon moved from Colorado where she worked as an accountant for her alma mater, the University of Colorado Denver. In a previous life, she was in the Air Force. In this life, she has worked as an editor, writing consultant, and conference assistant. She spends her free time writing to-do lists, playing with her pup, and cooking with her husband. You can read some of her poems in Copper Nickel, Mochila Review, andGlass Mountain.
Please join us to hear readings by the featured poets at 8 PM, and from open mic performers at 9 PM. Come early to secure a spot on the open mic list, which is usually full by 7:45. Open mic performers are limited to two items or five minutes, whichever is shorter. Hosted for more than a dozen years by Dr. Andy Jones, the Poetry Night Reading Series is made possible by the owner and staff of the John Natsoulas Gallery, Dr. Andy’s interns, Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Houron KDVS (Wednesdays at 5 at 90.3 FM), and the community of poets who gather fortnightly in downtown Davis.
This winter we are celebrating the publication of new books by favorite local and traveling poets. Please mark your calendars for these future Poetry Night events:
January 17 – Emily Hughes with Meredith Herndon
February 7 – Tim Hunt with Lenore Wilson
February 21 – Lee Herrick
March 7 – Joshua McKinney
March 21 – Don Schofield
April 4 – The Poets’ Quartet
April 18 – Angela James and Friends
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” Charles Baudelaire
For more information, call the John Natsoulas Gallery at 530 756-3938, or visit https://www.poetryindavis.com.
