Poetry Night at the John Natsoulas Gallery features Don Schofield, Mary Zeppa, and Joe Bacchus on March 21stat 8 PM
Please join us on Thursday, March 21stat 8 PM for a reading by Don Schofield, the American poet who has been writing in Greece since 1980. Opening for Schofield will be Sacramento poet Mary Zeppa and Fairfield poet Joe Bacchus. This event, followed by an open mic, takes place at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1stStreet in Davis.
Don Schofield is our featured poet. Born in Nevada and raised in California, Don Schofield left America in 1980. Since that time, he has been living and writing in Greece, traveling extensively, and teaching and serving as an administrator at various Greek, American, and British universities. Fluent in Greek, a citizen of both his homeland and his adopted country, Schofield has published five poetry collections, as well as an anthology of American poets in Greece and translations of contemporary Greek poets.
Don Schofield has been awarded the Allen Ginsberg Award (US), the John D. Criticos Prize (UK) and a Stanley J. Seeger Writer-in-Residence Fellowship from Princeton University. His first book, Approximately Paradise, was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, and his translations have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Greek National Translation Award. Recently retired, he lives in both Athens and Thessaloniki.
Mary Zeppa, a singer and lyricist as well as a poet and literary journalist, has been active in the Sacramento Poetry Center (SPC) since 1981. Zeppa served as Co-Editor of Poet Newsfrom 1984-1995 and was a founding Editor (1993) of The Tule Review. Her Interviews with Robert Hass, William Stafford, Diane Di Prima, Charles Wright, Sandra McPherson and Dennis Schmitz appeared in Poet News(1983-92) and Poetry Now(1997). She currently serves SPC as Board Member at Large, co-host of Third Thursdays in the Sacramento Room and Archivist Emerita.
Zeppa, also a three-time fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, is the author of two chapbooks, Little Ship of Blessingand The Battered Bride Overtureand the full-length collection, My Body Tells Its Own Story.
Joe Bacchus is a Jungian and correctional psychologist, and a poet. His poems focus on synergy and cycle.
An open mic (five minutes or two items, whichever is shorter) will follow the featured poets. Arrive by 7:45 to grab a spot on the list.
Don Schofield, with Mary Zeppa and Joe Bacchus
Thursday, March 21st
8:00 P.M.
The Open Mic begins at 9:00 P.M.
The John Natsoulas Gallery
521 1stStreet in Davis
Hosted by Dr. Andy Jones
