Dear Friends of Poetry,
The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Tess Taylor and Noah Warren at 7 PM on Thursday, April 21st, 2022 on the roof of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.
Tess Taylor is a poet, editor, and critic. Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook competition. Her first book, The Forage House, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Taylor’s second book, Work & Days, was named one of the 10 best books of poetry in 2016 by the New York Times. Taylor’s third book, Last West, a hybrid photo and poetry book retracing the steps of Dorothea Lange in California, appeared as part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition at MoMA in February of 2020. Taylor’s fourth book of poems, Rift Zone, was named one of the best books of 2020 by The Boston Globe. Taylor is currently editing a new anthology of gardening poems, tentatively titled Converting Sunlight, due out from Storey Press in spring of 2023.
Taylor’s work has been featured in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Travel & Leisure, and other publications. Taylor also works as a critic, spending 10 years as the poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered, and writes editorials and book reviews for CNN and The New York Times. Taylor has received fellowships from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the MacDowell Colony, the MARBL archive at Emory University, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor chaired the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle for six years. Taylor has taught at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College and UC Davis, as well as serving as Visiting Professor at Whittier College and Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast. She spent a very happy semester teaching poetry here at UC Davis. She is currently on the faculty of Ashland University’s Low-Res MFA. Taylor resides in El Cerrito, California. Find out more about Tess Taylor at https://www.tess-taylor.com.
Co-featuring with Taylor will be Noah Warren. Warren was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and raised in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He earned a BA from Yale University, where he was awarded the Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. He is the author of The Complete Stories, published by Copper Canyon in 2021, and The Destroyer in the Glass, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His work has been supported by fellowships from Yale, Stanford, The New Literary Project, and the Arts Research Center. He is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where he coordinates the Lunch Poems Reading Series.
Warren’s poems appear in The Paris Review, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, ZYZZYVA, PEN America, The New England Review, The Southern Review, AGNI, poets.org, and elsewhere. At Berkeley, his research centers on the materialism of poetry in the American nineteenth century. He is at work on a novel and a new collection of poems. Find out more about Noah Warren at https://www.noahrwarren.com.
This event will take place at the Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street) at 7 PM on Thursday, April 21st. 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. No matter what the CDC or Yolo County has announced, we ask that you wear your mask inside the Natsoulas Gallery. This outdoor rooftop event will take advantage of ambient setting-sunlight during the 7 o’clock hour, and available electric lighting during the 8 o’clock hour for the open mic. Please dress in layers!
Dr. Andy
Upcoming Poetry Night Events:
May 5th: Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux
May 19th: Zinzi Clemmons with Mangai Arumugam
June 2: Inés Hernández-Ávila and Wendah Alvarez
June 16th: Judy Halebsky and Dean Rader
P.S. Keep checking back for future Poetry Night events with Erin Rodoni, Charles Halsted, Dean Rader (2023), and other favorites.
