John Boe Performs on March 3rd

University Writing Program professor John Boe is a popular personality amongst his students, and a fan favorite at Poetry Night. On Wednesday, March 3 he returns to Bistro 33 to regale a packed audience with his poetry, music, and original stories.

John Boe’s storytelling prowess has been featured at festivals (including the California Storytelling Festival and Picnic Day), on radio and TV (including ABC’s 20/20), at clubs (often The Freight and Salvage in Berkeley), conferences, conventions, schools, and other venues. He is author of Life Itself: Messiness is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays, and co-author of Your Joke is in the Email: Cyberlaffs from Mousepotatoes. In addition to being a storyteller, Boe is also a poet, painter, and piano player. He serves as the editor of the journal Writing on the Edge, and is an award-winning essayist. He is a lecturer for the University Writing Program UC Davis where he was the first winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.

The event is free and open to the public, though many stories may not be suitable for children. Early arrival is encouraged, for the Bistro 33 banquet room is expected to fill to capacity for Boe’s performance.

Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of every month at 8 P.M. with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M. For more information, visit poetryindavis.blogspot.com.


Who: John Boe
What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33
When: Wednesday, March 3rd, 9 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.

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

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

Tim Kahl and Robert Grossklaus to Perform!

Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Tim Kahl and Robert Grossklaus on Wednesday, February 3 at a new time, 8 P.M., at 226 F Street in Davis. Please join us to enjoy the latest and best work by these two established poets and poetry activists.



Sacramento poet Tim Kahl is the author of the poetry collection, Possessing Yourself (Word Tech Press, 2009), and his poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Letters and Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, and numerous other journals. He has also translated, among others, the work of German poet Rolf Haufs, Brazilian poets Ledo Ivo and Marly de Oliveira, and the poems of Jose Saramago, the Portuguese language’s only Nobel Laureate. He currently serves the poetry community as the editor for Bald Trickster Press and as the Vice President of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He teaches at Sacramento City College.

Robert Grossklaus is a poet and musician who runs the small press and graphic design house, Polymer Grove. His poetry has been published in such publications as Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, Eclectica, and Liquid Ohio. His musical endeavors include the forthcoming album, Corporeal Landscapes in which he appears with the band, Litany, and he continues to create his own electronic music/poetry under the name dphunkt. He currently resides in Roseville with his wife.

Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday and third Thursday of every month at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at about 9 P.M. The new third Thursday events will take place at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 First Street in Davis.

If you have often lamented the late starting time of Poetry Night at Bistro 33, now is your chance to see what you have been missing. Join us for live poetry at a reasonable hour!


Who: Tim Kahl and Robert Grossklaus

What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33

When: Wednesday, February 3 at 8 P.M. (New Time!)

Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.

Media Contact:

Andy Jones

aojones@ucdavis.edu

http://poetryindavis.blogspot.com

Bistro 33 – (530) 756-4556

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

01/20: Poetry Night presents Brett Eugene Ralph

Brett Eugene Ralph is a poet, musician and college professor whose performed poets are not to be missed. Kids writer and director Harmony Korine calls Ralph “a true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare,” and Ralph’s work has been described by musician and actor Will Oldham as “an excuse for hope . . . sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing.”

The work of Brett Eugene Ralph has appeared in publications such as Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review, as well as in the McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader anthologies. His first full-length collection, Black Sabbatical, was published in 2009 by Sarabande Books. Ralph grew up playing football and singing in punk-rock bands in Louisville, Kentucky. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri State University, and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies in the Himalayas of northern India. He now lives in Empire, Kentucky, teaches at Hopkinsville Community College, and rocks out with his country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue.

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.



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Boston Performance Poet Maxwell Kessler Headlines Poetry Night

Happy New Year! This coming Wednesday the stage poet Maxwell Kessler will be performing his work at Bistro 33 as part of a West-Coast tour (he currently hails from Massachusetts). Will you join us January 6th for the first Poetry Night of the new year?

Performance poet Maxwell R. Kessler was born and raised in the Idaho wilderness, and he continues to draw strength and inspiration from the Rocky Mountains. An artist in multiple media, Kessler has performed in a heavy metal rock band, he has written and acted in locally-produced plays and films, and today video of many of his performed poems can be found online.

Kessler has been a member of two Emerson College Slam Teams (including the 2009 College Nationals Finalists) and a member of the 2009 Cantab Team, and he was awarded the title of Champion of Champions at the Boston Poetry Slam. In addition to performing his work throughout New England, he is the co-founder and coordinator of the Emerson Poetry Project, a weekly poetry reading at Emerson College. In 2009 Kessler was named “Emersonian of the Year.”

Maxwell Kessler will bring significant stage experience, energy and talent to the first Poetry Night of the new decade. We hope you will also bring yourself to this performance, and then stick around for the always surprising and diverse Open Mic.

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

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

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.