Poetry Night via ZOOM! Join us at 8 PM on Thursday, December 17th, 2020.
Dear Friends of Poetry,
On Thursday, December 17th , 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 (30 minutes) reading will feature poetry by Lob Instagon, Wolfgang Carstens, and Todd Cirillo. As David Mamet says about the arc of a good play, “Come in late and get out early.”
WOLFGANG CARSTENS’ newest book PRINCE CHARMING (Six Ft. Swell’s Press, 2020) is available now online and wherever fine books are sold. Wolfgang Carstens lives in Canada with his wife, five kids, grandson, two cats, dog, mortgage, and death. His bio indicates that his poetry is printed on the backs of unpaid bills. Find out even more about Wolfgang at wolfgangcarstens.com.
TODD CIRILLO is a poet, publisher and pirate. He has twelve books of poetry, including his latest, Kisses From A Straight Razor (Epic Rites Press, 2020), Burning the Evidence, Sucker’s Paradise, ROXY and others. He is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press and one of the originators of the After-Hours Poetry movement. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines, and cocktails napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom. He can be found at www.toddcirillo.com and www.sixftswellspress.com
Opening for Carstens and Cirillo will be Sacramento poet and musician Lob Instagon.
LOB INSTAGON is a conceptual artist from the Sacramento area, mostly known for his involvement with the local music community and his long-time sound art project INSTAGON. He also has been part of the California Poetry community since the early 1990’s as a former host to multiple weekly readings in Southern California and as one of the editors for NEXT Magazine. Instagon has been published in many zines and journals, such as Caffeine Magazine, The Neverending Page, and Lummox Journal. Instagon has released 10 chapbooks, and had made hundreds of spoken word appearances including at Lollapalooza, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC LA, UNLAV, and coffee houses and art spots all up and down the coast. Learn more at www.instagon.com.
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, December 17th, at 8 PM via ZOOM!
Dr. Andy
Find the Facebook Event Page for this Reading Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3545864382169489
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.” Octavio Paz
