Dear Friends of Poetry,
Our March 6th, Poetry Night will feature local poets Cindy Juyoung Ok, Jade Meshew and Roy Magat. We meet at 7 PM at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis, and we hope you can join us!
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward, winner of the 2023 Yale Younger Poets Prize, and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon from the Wesleyan Poetry Series. A 2024 winner of a Forward Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Ok is a former high school physics teacher and current assistant professor, and the newest hire, in the UC Davis MFA Program.
Opening for Ok will be Jade Meshew and Roy Magat, graduate students in the UC Davis MFA program. Raised in the Bay Area, Roy Magat is currently a second-year MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at UC Davis. His work has appeared in Everything Matters, and he is part of the editorial staff for the literary magazine Huizache. Jade Meshew is a first-year MFA student and a Northern California native. In 2024, she won the Pamela Maus poetry prize. Her work explores themes across identity and personhood, love and loss, and relationships with the natural world. Her current interests include ecopoetics and the potential of the persona poem.
The open mic tonight starts at 8. Performers will be asked to limit what they share to two items or four minutes, whichever is shorter. The open mic list is typically full by 6:45. People who show up early to help set up chairs will always earn a spot on the open mic list.
Find out more about the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting https://www.poetryindavis.com. Encourage 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/ or his Substack at https://andyjones.substack.com/.
In 2025, we plan to feature the poets Robby Nykodym, Oswaldo Vargas, Patrick Grizzell, Clarence Major, April Ossmann, Julia Levine, Susan Browne, Dane Cervine, Chris Erickson, Diane Frank, and more.
Upcoming Events:
March 20 – National Storytelling Day
April 3 – Clarence Major and April Ossmann
April 17 – Julia Levine and Susan Browne, meeting on the roof of the Natsoulas Gallery
May 1 – Patrick Grizzell and Oswaldo Vargas, meeting on the roof of the Natsoulas Gallery
Please plan to join us on every first and third Thursday of the month at 7 PM at the John Natsoulas Gallery for the Poetry Night Reading Series.
Fondly yours,
Dr. Andy Jones
Host, The Poetry Night Reading Series
