Davis Poet Laureate Allegra Silberstein and Davis Poet Susan Wolbarst Read on April 7th as part of the Poetry Night Reading Series

Davis Poet Laureate Allegra Silberstein Reads at Bistro 33 on April 7th at 8 P.M.

Opening for Allegra Silberstein will be Davis Poet Susan Wolbarst

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Davis Poet Laureate Allegra Silberstein on Wednesday, April 7th at 8 P.M. She will be performing at Bistro 33 at 226 F Street.

In 2010 Allegra Jostad Silberstein was named the first ever Poet Laureate of the City of Davis. A longtime Davis teacher (now retired), dancer, and philanthropist, Allegra is known widely for her work as coordinator for The Other Voice, a reading series that takes place at the UU Church of Davis, and for her support of local writers. Her poems have been published in Poetry Depth Quarterly, The Yolo Crow, Blue Unicorn, Rattlesnake Press, Poetry Now, Iodine Poetry, Poetry of the New West, California Quarterly, and other journals. She has also placed poems in a variety of anthologies, including The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems, Gatherings, A Woman’s Place, and Where Do I Walk. Her first chapbook, Acceptance, was published in 1999, and her book In the Folds was published by Rattlesnake Press in 2005. She is currently working on a full-length book of poems.

Susan Wolbarst’s poetry has appeared in Naugatuck River Review and Poetry Now, the monthly journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center. In 2008 Susan placed first in the Sacramento Poetry Center Poetry Contest for her poem “Diagnosis,” and she won an honorable mention in the same contest for “In the Ladies Room” in 2009. A longtime Davis resident who has been published in The Yolo Crow and elsewhere, Susan Wolbarst writes poetry, short stories, and essays.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at Bistro 33 to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Allegra Silberstein and Susan Wolbarst
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday April 7^th at 8 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones@ucdavis.edu
http://poetryindavis.blogspot.com
Bistro 33 – 756 4556

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Indigo Moor Reads his Poetry at this week's Poetry Night Reading Series

Indigo Moor Reads at the John Natsoulas Gallery on March 18^th at 8 P.M.

The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Sacramento poet Indigo Moor on Thursday, March 18th at 8 P.M. He will be performing at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 1^st Street.

Indigo Moor’s most recent book of poetry, Through the Stonecutter's Window, has just been announced as this year’s winner of the nationally recognized Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. His poetry has been described as vivid and soulful, exploring broad subjects from "dialogues with the visual arts to the natural world and the poet's dreams and nightmares." You may know Moor as the former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, or as the author of Tap Root, a collection of poems published in 2006 by Main Street Rag's Editor's Select Poetry Series. He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize; he was also a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee. His work has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including the Xavier Review, LA Review, Poetry Now, and Suisun Valley Review. A graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists, Moor teaches residencies and workshops across the country. For further information on Indigo’s most recent accomplishments and publications, visit his website at www.IndigoMoor.com.

Judy Halebsky trained in Performance Studies at UC Davis and is a member of Sacramento Poetry Center's Tuesday night workshop. Since 2007 she has been in Tokyo studying Japanese literature on a MEXT fellowship. Her book Sky=Empty was chosen my Marvin Bell as the winner of the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize. This will be her first public reading from the book.

Musicians: Dylan Bolles, Mark Fuoco, Keith Cary


Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the John Natsoulas Gallery to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, organized by Andy Jones and hosted this week by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.

Who: Indigo Moor
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, March 18th 8pm
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1^st Street

Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones@ucdavis.edu
http://poetryindavis.blogspot.com
The John Natsoulas Gallery – 756-3938

You are also invited to join the Poetry in Davis mailing list on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2290130152&ref=ts