Dear Friends of Poetry,
The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Katie Peterson and Christian Gullette at 7 PM on Thursday, December 1st, 2022, on the third floor (indoors) of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.
Katie Peterson’s collections of poetry include This One Tree (2006), Permission (2013), The Accounts (2013), the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas, and A Piece of Good News (2019), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her fifth book, Life in a Field, a collaboration with photographer Young Suh, was selected by Rachel Zucker for the 2020 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. Her edition of the Brief Selected Poems of Robert Lowell was published in 2017. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Changes Review, Literary Imagination, the New York Review of Books, and most of the other prestigious markets for the best poems. Peterson directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis, where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow.
Christian Gullette’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Northwest Review, and Los Angeles Review. He is a National Poetry Series Finalist, the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship, and a 2022 semi-finalist for the Discovery / 92Y Contest. His manuscript has been a finalist for several prizes, including the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize. Gullette is the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.
Gullette received his Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was recently a lecturer teaching courses to graduate and undergraduate students in Scandinavian literature, translation theory, and Swedish language instruction. He earned his M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers, his M.Ed. from George Washington University, and a B.A. in English from Bates College.
This event will take place indoors on the temperature-controlled third floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street) at 7 PM on Thursday, December 1st, 2022. As with a bank robbery, masks will be worn by many of the attendees – the “tridemic” is no joke. 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. As Strunk and White say, “Vigorous writing is concise.” The open mic list typically fills by 7 PM, so please arrive early if you would like to perform something during the 8 o’clock hour.
The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on first and third Thursdays of the month at 7 PM, 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. This event is supported by Katerina Hanks, producer, and Timothy Nutter, sound and lighting engineer.
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Find out more about the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting https://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, check out his weekly podcast at https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com/ and his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com. For example, in the in the most recent podcast, Dr. Andy interviewed the poets Joe Mills (author of seven books of poetry) and dynamic performance poet Felicity Artemis.
Upcoming Poetry Night Events:
December 15: Beth Suter (author of a new book, Snake and Eggs) with Bethanie Humphreys
January 5: Allegra Silberstein (author of a new book, Dancing with the Morning Breeze) with Jean Beguin
January 19: Brad Buchanan with Frank Dixon Graham
Upcoming readers (2023) at the Poetry Night Reading Series will include, among others, Mary Mackey, Pamela Houston, Lois Jones, Brad Henderson, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, Julia Levine, and Rooja Mohassessy.
The Poetry Night Reading Series has been committed to serving the literary and arts community in the city of Davis since 2011. Happening every 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at the Natsoulas Gallery, each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. Poetry in Davis was voted “Best Open Mic” in The California Aggie’s “Best of Davis″ edition and has been featured in Davis Life Magazine. Readers have included UC Davis faculty Francisco X. Alarcón, John Boe, Joshua Clover, Jack Forbes, Clarence Major, Sandra McPherson, Katie Peterson, Margaret Ronda, Joe Wenderoth, and Alan Williamson, as well as many regional and traveling poets, including Molly Peacock, Dana Gioia, and James Ragan.
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