Brighton-Based Poet Rosy Carrick to Perform at Poetry Night

Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Brighton-based poet Rosy Carrick on Wednesday, October 21st at 9 P.M.

Rosy Carrick’s poetry has been described as simultaneously shocking, sensual and comedic. Longtime host of Hammer and Tongue, Brighton England’s largest monthly poetry and spoken word event, Carrick teaches writing workshops for adults and youths. She spends much of her time traveling through the UK and abroad reading poetry, and is currently on tour. Carrick holds a B.A. in English and Writing from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Writing from Sussex University. In addition to performing her poetry, Rosy may discuss some of her recent academic publications, including essays with titles such as ‘Getting Lost: Death, Bliss and Creativity,” and “‘Avant-Garde Poetry: Disordered Eating or Unpalatable Truth?” This fall and winter she will participate in “The Cinderella Project,” an innovative multimedia collaboration which seeks to “blur the boundary between paint and performance to create an immediate, visceral and interactive experience for its audience.” Visit her website, www.rosycarrick.co.uk for more information, to read samples of her poetry, and purchase her latest CD, VOLODYA.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.

Poetry Reading by Poet and Translator William O'Daly

Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome poet, translator, and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, William O’Daly on Wednesday, October 7th at 9 P.M.

A resident of the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California, William O’Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. His published works include eight books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, The Book of Questions, The Hands of Day, and World’s End), and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry for Still Another Day and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he has worked as a literary and technical editor, a college professor, and an instructional designer; his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. He is a co-founder of prestigious Copper Canyon Press. With co-author Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The poet and musician Rob Roy will be visiting Bistro 33 from Korea in order to participate in the open mic. Don't miss it!

Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.

Who: William O’Daly

What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33
When: Wednesday, October 7th 9pm
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.

Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones@ucdavis.edu
http://poetryindavis.blogspot.com
Bistro 33 – (530) 756-4556

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Blue Moon Literary and Art Review Reading Tonight!

Tonight, Friday September 18, the Blue Moon is releasing their fourth issue. The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts will be hosting the event at the corner of first and E.

Come by at 7pm for wine, appetizers, and fantastic readings from the upcoming issue, which features beautiful artwork by local artist Pat Mahoney, the winner of the Will Albrecht Young Writer Contest, and much more.

Yosefa Raz performs at Poetry Night at Bistro 33

Yosefa Raz is an Israeli-American poet and UC Davis graduate who impresses audiences with the sensitivity and international flavor of her poetry. Raz has published poetry, fiction and translations in Glimmer Train, ZYZZYVA, Tikkun Magazine, Lilith, Bridges and Zeek. Her full length poetry book, In Exchange for a Homeland, was published in 2004 by Swan Scythe Press in Davis. She has been an editor for Bridges: A Feminist Journal, and is currently the poetry editor for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought & Culture. Originally from Jerusalem, Yosefa Raz currently divides her time between Tel Aviv and Berkeley, where she is working on a PhD in Hebrew Literature.

For more information about Yosefa Raz and samples of her writing, visit her blog at www.yosefaraz.blogspot.com.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.

Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.

Jenny Overman Performs One Woman Show

Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Jenny Overman on Wednesday, September 2nd at 9 P.M. She will be performing her one-woman show titled “Worries on Wall St. and Mr. Jones.”

Jenny Overman is a performance poet, artist, dancer and actress who looks forward to presenting a new piece of theatrical poetry, “Worries on Wall St. and Mr. Jones,” at Poetry Night at Bistro 33. A native New Yorker now living in Oakland, Overman is the author of the poetry collection I am So White in Some Ways, a book that explores topics concerning social status, race, body image, sexuality and religion.

“Worries on Wall St. and Mr. Jones” is a poetic and personal telling of Jenny Overman's relationship with New York City, Wall Street, and the economic crisis. The performance will addresses themes of loss, wealth, Judaism, anti-Semitism, and creativity. Included will be a narrative poem about Bernie Madoff as well as other poignant and topical pieces that respond to personal, social, and economic insecurity.

More information about Jenny can be found at www.jennyoverman.com.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.

Thrilling performance by Alice Anderson

Wednesday night Alice Anderson's presence and grace enchanted the audience.

Above was the marvelous opening act by Patrick Grizzell

Critical Acclaim for Alice Anderson

Alice Anderson is a gifted, intense, lucid, and absolutely fearless young poet. Human Nature marks a splendid debut. - Thomas Lux

The poet here is someone new in American letters. . . These poems are shocking and bravem relentless in their obsessive power. - Garrett Hongo

Alice Anderson is willing to investigate the darkest of answers . . . her ferocious map of the past also points the way out. "Welcome," she tells us "to the living." - Mark Doty

Beware, all who enter here. Anderson's remarkable first book, winner of the 1994 Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, is like an outcropping of hell-the reader is compelled by fascination and horror to keep reading. These are poems of paternal incest and complicity: the brother brought into the sister's room to watch her sexual activity with the father; the mother talking about it with the daughter as if "we're in this together"; the woman grown, betrayed, enraged, and convinced that "no man will ever adore me that way again." Dedicated to Sharon Olds, these poems bear her influence: the unflinching look at a difficult reality, the rich attention to physical detail, the rush of overwhelming experience, the aesthetic control. The book's last line-"It's the human's nature to survive, welcome to the living"-which also gives the book its grim and hopeful title, celebrates survival. Anderson's life force is implicit in the language throughout these
poems, objective, exact, charged with an emotional force given only to those who have been to hell and returned to tell the tale. - Publisher's Weekly, starred review