Poets Katie Peterson and Candice Reffe Perform at the John Natsoulas Gallery on November 21stat 8 PM
The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to feature UC Davis professor and poet Katie Peterson, reading with Massachusetts poet Candice Reffe. They will perform on Thursday, November 21st at 8 P.M. at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1stStreet in Davis.
KATIE PETERSON is the author of four books of poetry: This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), Permission (New Issues, 2013), The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013), and her new book, A Piece of Good News (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019). She is the editor of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017).
Peterson’s work has been recognized with awards and fellowships, including the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas for The Accounts, a Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her poems have been collected in anthologies including The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Knopf, 2016) and Poems for Political Disaster (Boston Review, 2017). She collaborates on film and artists’ books with her husband, the photographer Young Suh. Peterson is the Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California at Davis.
CANDICE REFFE was born in Paterson, N.J. She earned her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1985 after a ten-year hiatus from literature, which included a post in Kenya with the Peace Corps. Twice chosen as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, she has been awarded a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship and a Grolier Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Agni, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, and The Threepenny Review.
Candice Reffe’s new book of poetry is titled Live from the Mood Board, Winner of the 2018 Elixir Press Anti-Venom Poetry Award. About this book, Kathleen Winter has said this: “Supple syntax and subtle variations in poetic form also add to this debut collection’s complexity and polish. Readers across age ranges and geographical and economic situations are likely to resonate with the struggle toward psychic and professional liberation that builds momentum throughout this book—the sense of consciousness taking wing to escape the mundane, as the conflicted self ‘becomes a hallelujah.'”
Arrive early (by 7:45) to sign up for a spot on the open mic that will follow the readings by our featured poets. Please bring your poems, short stories, and songs. Performers with instruments are especially welcomed. Participants will be asked to limit their performances to four minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. The Poetry Night Reading Series is hosted by Davis poet laureate emeritus Dr. Andy Jones and supported by Dr. Andy’s fervent fall 2019 interns.
“Writing is an act of reclamation and revolution. It is a dance with power.” Rae Gouirand
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