Poetry Night via ZOOM! Join us at 8 PM on Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Dear Friends of Poetry,
On Thursday, October 1st, at 8 PM we will offer a poetry reading via ZOOM. To participate, visit https://ucdavisdss.zoom.us/my/andyojones at 8 PM, or a few minutes before if you wish to chat with the host and the other attendees.
This short (about 30 minutes) reading will feature poetry by Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Shawn Pittard.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of a new book of poetry from Main Street Rag this September, Gravitational Tug. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016), The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008) and nine previous collections, Kelly-DeWitt is one of the most talented and accomplished poets of the Sacramento Valley. Her work also appears in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She has been a reviewer for Library Journal, editor of the online journal Perihelion, Program Director for the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Women’s Wisdom Arts Program, a Poet in the Schools and in the Prisons, a blogger for Coal Hill Review, and an instructor for UC Davis Continuing Education. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.
Ilya Kaminsky said this of our featured poet: “Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a poet who finds the marvelous in the everyday, who finds in our silent moments a music, who finds wisdom in our fears and passions, and teaches us to slow down and see ourselves in ourselves. I love her work.”
Opening for Susan will be Shawn Pittard. Shawn Pittard is the author of two slender volumes of poetry: Standing in the River, which was the winner of Tebot Bach’s 2010 Clockwise Chapbook Competition, and These Rivers from Rattlesnake Press. By day, he works in the field of planning and public policy, focusing on energy and the environment.
The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on the first and third Thursdays of the month, is generously supported by the people and poets of the Sacramento Valley. Your host will be Dr. Andy Jones, the poet laureate emeritus of the City of Davis.
Please join us on Thursday, October 1st, at 8 PM.
Dr. Andy
P.S. Find the Facebook event page for our poetry reading at https://www.facebook.com/events/4476860245689417/
P.P.S. Join us on October 15th, Virgil’s birthday, for a reading by Brad Buchanan, Indigo Moor, and Rhony Bhopla.
