Trina L. Drotar, Emily Wallis Hughes, and Jihyun Yun at Poetry Night – join us September 3, 2020 at 8PM via Zoom!
Dear Friends of Poetry,
On September 3rd 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 other attendees.
Tonight’s short event will feature Trina L. Drotar, Emily Wallis Hughes, and Jihyun Yun!
Trina L. Drotar is an award winning author in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction and visual art. She has co-hosted a reading series, served on several arts and writing boards of directors for various centers and organizations, and has taught classes in creative and academic writing. The author of more than a dozen books on subjects literary and artistic, Drotar has been widely published in journals in California and beyond.
Emily Wallis Hughes is a poet and editor who is known locally for the many years she spent honing her craft at the University of California, Davis. Sugar Factory, her first full-length book of poems, containing a series of twelve new paintings by Sarah Riggs in collaboration with Emily’s poetry, was published in January 2019 by Spuyten Duyvil. Her poems have been published in The Berkeley Poetry Review, Cordella, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, and many other important journals. While pursuing an MFA in Poetry at New York University, Emily was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow, working for the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in partnership with the NYU Creative Writing Program. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Jihyun Yun is a Korean American poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. A Fulbright research fellow, she has earned degrees from the University of California, Davis and New York University. Her brand new book, published this very week, Some are Always Hungry,won the 2019 Prairie Schooner book prize in poetry. Her work can be found in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Best New Poets, and many other publications.
There is no cost to attend this poetry reading, though you are encouraged to support your local independent bookstore by buying books of poetry, and to support the California Community Foundation for Northern California Wildfire Relief with a donation.
The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on the first and third Thursdays of the month, is generously supported by the John Natsoulas Gallery and 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 do join us at 8 on September 3rd.
Dr. Andy
P.P.S. Find the Facebook event page for tonight’s reading at https://www.facebook.com/events/2003215946481372/
