Dear Friends of Poetry,
The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Patricia Caspers and Damieka Thomas for a sunset-hour reading (5 PM) on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 on the roof of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis. Dress warmly!
Patricia Caspers is a poet, editor, teacher, library tech, columnist, and newspaper reporter, as well as the founding editor of West Trestle Review. Caspers’ poetry has appeared in Quiddity, PANK, Fjord’s Review, and other publications. Her full-length poetry collection, In the Belly of the Albatross, was published by Glass Lyre Press and was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Her latest collection, Some Flawed Magic, was released in December, 2021. Caspers earned an MFA in creative writing from Mills College.
Damieka Thomas is a mixed-race writer and poet. She holds a degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Education from UC Davis. She has been published in Open Ceilings Magazine, Rejected Lit Magazine, Third Iris Magazine, and Poets.org.
Winner of the 2021 Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize for her poem “Progress,” Damieka Thomas is a co-founder and Public Relations Officer of Mad Mouth Poetry, a collective of poets dedicated to creating equitable spaces in poetry. She is applying for MFA programs this Fall and hopes to attend a program next year. Thomas can be found @damiekat on all social media platforms.
This event will take place on the roof of the Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street) at 5 PM (note the time) on Thursday, February 3rd. Please dress warmly, for we are expecting rooftop temperatures to be in the low 50s. There will be an open mic after the featured performers. Open mic performances will be limited to four minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. Please mask your vaccinated selves before entering the Gallery.
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 by John Natsoulas and the staff at the John Natsoulas Gallery. Your host will be Dr. Andy Jones, the poet laureate emeritus of the City of Davis.
Dr. Andy
Find the Facebook page for this event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/641579813924661
Upcoming Poetry Night events:
February 3: Patricia Caspers with Damieka Thomas (Natsoulas Gallery rooftop at 5 PM)
February 10: San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin (7 PM via Zoom)
February 17: Joe Wenderoth at the Natsoulas Gallery
This spring we will feature, among others, Davis Poet Laureate Julia Levine, Frank Gaspar, Tess Taylor, Joseph Millar, and Dorianne Laux.
