Dear Friends of Poetry,
The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Beth Suter and Bethanie Humphreys at 7 PM on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, on the third floor (indoors) of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.
Beth Suter grew up in rural Missouri close to grandparents who survived the Great Depression by gathering wild food. She learned that the forest was both a place to look for beauty and a place to look for lunch. She has had a deep connection with nature ever since and considers herself an ecopoet. She started writing poems as an undergraduate studying Environmental Science at U.C. Davis, and continued writing during her years as a naturalist and teacher.
She started publishing poetry in 2013, and has since appeared in over forty publications including Colorado Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street, DMQ Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review. She won first place in the Nature Category at the 2013 Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest and was chosen as a finalist in the Pat Schneider Poetry Contest in 2015. A 2016 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference alumna, she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and once nominated for a Best of the Net Prize in 2020. She participates widely in workshops and readings in Davis and at the Sacramento Poetry Center. Follow Beth Suter at http://facebook.com/bethfsuter/.
Bethanie Humphreys is a writer, editor, mixed-media visual artist, educator, and late-blooming lesbian from Sacramento, California. Former Editor-in-Chief of the American River Review and Associate Editor and Art Director for Tule Review, she has seen her work appear in journals in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, including The Poetry Foundation, Artemis, Nonbinary Review, and Found Poetry Review. Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019. A California Certified Naturalist and Amherst Writers and Artists method instructor, Humphreys leads various workshops, including poetry editing, science-inspired poetry, and a guided National Poetry Writing Month experience. Learn more at https://bethaniehumphreys.com/.
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 15, 2022. 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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.” Sincerity will not be enforced. 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.
We recommend that you wear a mask to Poetry Night. According to a Yolo County December 6 press release, “This winter is the first in several years where we are seeing significant flu and RSV activity, in addition to COVID-19, so we are now making masking recommendations based on all circulating respiratory viruses, not just on COVID,” said Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson. “Wearing a high-quality mask indoors is a great way to protect yourself and others from respiratory viruses like flu, RSV, and COVID-19.”
The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on the 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.
Find the Facebook page for this event at https://www.facebook.com/events/5854316174590080/.
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 his most recent podcast, Dr. Andy interviewed crime writer Catriona McPherson, poet and novelist Mary Mackey, and Deep Work expert Jon Johnson.
Upcoming Poetry Night Events:
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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