Please join us February 21st at 8 PM at the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street in Davis) for a reading by widely-esteemed poet Lee Herrick!
Fresno City College professor Lee Herrick recently published a new book of poetry, Scar and Flower. It’s Herrick’s first book since he finished his tenure as Fresno’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017.
Lee Herrick is the author of three books, Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including The Bloomsbury Review, ZYZZYVA, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley (2nd edition), One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form, and Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, among others. Poet Brian Turner writes that Herrick’s poetry is “Whitman revised … with a voice that is politically engaged and rooted in compassion. Gardening Secrets of the Dead is a wise, gorgeous book.”
Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States 2015-2017 says this about Scar and Flower: “This is an incredible, luminous and most serious investigation, of being, of human suffering, of war and peace — of the factories of violence and the notebook of enlightenments. We deepen into spirit and lives lost. Lee is concerned with the turning of beauty, the intimacy of death and the boundlessness of small moments, ‘the broken body of a tiny bird,, fragments that can change a life. Glitterings of light, planetary systems, electric skies available and unavailable. He is the form rider’ of hope. A stellar project, here. Rare and gifted, a timely arrival. Life-deep brilliance.”
Born in Daejeon, South Korea and adopted at ten months old, Lee Herrick lives in Fresno, California and teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College. In 2015 he was named poet laureate of Fresno.
We begin at 8 PM, with an open mic at 9. Come early to sign up. All are welcome! 521 1st Street in Davis.
