Dear Friends of Poetry,
Our August 7, Poetry Night will feature poets and authors Keith Ekiss and Robin Ekiss, two of our favorite poets that are married to one another. We meet at 7 PM inside the air-conditioned John Natsoulas Gallery, and we hope you can join us!
Our first reader of the evening will be Robin Ekiss.
Robin Ekiss earned her MA in creative writing from UC Davis so many years ago that Dr. Andy was actually one of her graduate student colleagues. A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, she’s the author of The Mansion of Happiness, winner of the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize and a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. Her poems and prose have appeared in The Atlantic, POETRY, APR, and elsewhere. She’s a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts.
Our second reader on August 7 will be Keith Ekiss.
Keith Ekiss is the author of two collections of poetry — Burial Fragments, co-winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for 2024 from Gunpowder Press — and Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010), a book about growing up on the edge of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona. As a translator, his works include The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2019), an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio in four volumes and Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio, published in 2016 by The Bitter Oleander Press. He has been a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at Stanford since 2007.
The open mic starts at 8. Performers will be asked to limit their sharings 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.
After Poetry Night, a number of us will be congregating at Delta of Venus, 122 B Street in Davis.
Find out more about the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting
http://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/. Also, see some of his recent essays on Substack:
https://andyjones.substack.com/. One recent post lists the almost 400 poets who have ever featured at the Poetry Night Reading Series.
Later in 2025, we will feature the poets Chris Erickson, Greg Miller, Diane Frank, Brad Buchanan, Julia Levine, and more.
Upcoming Events:
August 21 – Rhony Bhopla and Mariam Ahmed
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.
Also check out other Arts events in Davis, Literary Art events in Davis, Performances in Davis.
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