Poetry Night via ZOOM! Join us at 8 PM on Thursday, April 15th, 2021.
Dear Friends of Poetry,
We have a rare treat awaiting us in the form of an online poetry reading at 8 PM on Thursday, April 15th. 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 (30ish-minute) reading will feature poetry by Michael Rothenberg. Please join us Thursday for the particular pleasures of poetry.
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine BigBridge.org, co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100tpc.org), and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit 501(c)(3), assisting poets in crisis. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975.
Rothenberg has published 20 books of poetry, including Nightmare of The Violins, Favorite Songs, Man/Women (a collaboration with Joanne Kyger), Unhurried Vision, Monk Daddy, The Paris Journals, Choose, My Youth As A Train, and Murder. His most recent books of poetry include Sapodilla (Editions du Cygne–Swan World, Paris, France, 2016) and Drawing The Shade (Dos Madres Press, 2016). I Murdered Elvis was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2020. In Memory of A Banyan Tree, Poems of the Outside World, 1985-2020 will be published by Lost Horse Press in 2022.
His work has been published widely in literary reviews and included in anthologies such as Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street (Trinity University Press), 43 Poetas por Ayotzinapa, edited by Jesús González Alcántara and Moisés H. Cortés Cruz (Mexico), Saints of Hysteria, A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, edited by David Trinidad and Denise Duhamel (Soft Skull Press), Hidden Agendas/Unreported Poetics, edited by Louis Armand (Litteraria Pragensia), and For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals, edited by Tyler Doherty and Tom Morgan (Bootstrap Productions).
Rothenberg’s editorial work includes several volumes in the Penguin Poets series: Overtime by Philip Whalen, As Ever by Joanne Kyger, David’s Copy by David Meltzer (a former Poetry Night performer), and Way More West by Edward Dorn. Rothenberg is also editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, published by Wesleyan University Press (2007).
Rothenberg currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida where he is Florida State University Libraries Poet in Residence. Tallahassee, Florida is three hours later than in California, meaning that you should make a special effort to stay up late, East Coast Time, to hear some Rothenberg poems!
After the featured performance, we will hear a few open mic poems, individual poems that will be limited to three minutes per performer. Would you like to read one?
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, and those from many other locations via the magic of Zoom. Your host is Dr. Andy Jones, the poet laureate emeritus of the City of Davis. See Dr. Andy’s (free) weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com – Please subscribe!
Please join us on Thursday, April 15th, at 8 PM via ZOOM!
Dr. Andy
Find the Facebook Event Page for this Reading Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/465270541197460
P.S. Future Poetry Night readers will include Katie Peterson (in May), DR Wagner, and Hannah Stein (this fall). Please plan always to join us on first and third Thursdays of the month! We appreciate you.
