On the 3/15/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Former California poet laureate Dana Gioia joins the show for a meaningful discussion of poetry – the media in which it thrives, the reasons why young audiences are more engaged than ever, and all the nuances of word choice (with none of the pretension). He shares a bit about his book Meet Me at the Lighthouse, as well as one of its poems, a psalm that provides a metaphorical map of Los Angeles with an astrological twist. Later, Vice President of the Friends of the Davis Public Library Jeff Lee tells us about local used bookstore Logos Books, their monthly book sales, and their support of the Davis Public Library.Dana Gioia is the former Poet Laureate of California. An internationally recognized poet and critic, he is the author of six collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize for the best new poetry volume of the year. His latest book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, has just been published by Graywolf Press.Gioia’s critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2022).He has also written four opera libretti and edited twenty literary anthologies. Gioia served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009 where he created major national programs such as The Big Read and Poetry Out Loud.Gioia was born in Los Angeles in a working-class family of Italian and Mexican heritage. He was the first person in his family to attend college. He earned a BA and MBA from Stanford and an MA from Harvard. For fifteen years he worked in business in New York, becoming a vice-president of Kraft-General Foods. He wrote at nights and on weekends. In 1992 he quit to become a full-time writer.He has been awarded eleven honorary doctorates and many honors, including the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame, the Presidential Civilian Medal, the Poet’s Prize, the Walt Whitman Champion of Literary Award, and the Aiken-Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. He served as the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California before retiring in 2020 to return to full-time writing.Dana Gioia will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, March 16th, with a Q&A following his reading.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 3/8/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Teacher, writer, and Davis resident Dawn Yackzan, along with novelist and lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Program David Masiel, join Dr. Andy in the studio to talk about their books, getting listeners excited to hear them excerpted and read by actors at Stories on Stage Davis. Later, Peter Shahrokh tells us stories about his college years, his decision to become a Davisite, his dad’s friend’s Frankenstein-esque experiments and his free newsletter.Dawn Yackzan, a first-generation American-Lebanese, is a writer, mother, teacher, and activist. Her background includes teaching in public elementary schools, primarily low socio-economic, under-served communities, for thirty years. This work led her to found the Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign in 2013, a grassroots program which gained support from local schools, law enforcement, University of California leaders and state politicians. Having moved once a year in her first two decades of life, she discovered different regions and cultures of the United States. These nomadic and diverse cultural experiences, including living as an expat in North Africa at seventeen, have influenced her writings and become prominent subjects in her nonfiction and fiction writing. Since retiring, her projects include her memoir Precious Crazy and a young adult novel called Leap Frog. An early draft of Precious Crazy won a spot at the Community of Writers (in the High Sierra) and was selected as a 2022 finalist in an international book contest in Paris. Dawn and her husband live in Davis, California, and have two adult children.David Masiel lives, writes, and teaches in Davis. A graduate of the UC Davis creative writing program, Masiel has taught in the English Department and University Writing Program over the past two decades, teaching courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and professional editing. Between 2011-2019, he served as editor of Writing on the Edge, a UC Davis journal on writing and teaching writing, co-editing the journal’s collected interviews with writing scholars, Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews (Routledge). His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Outside Magazine, and The Washington Post. He has published two novels: 2182 Kilohertz (Random House 2002), a New York Times Notable Book that year, and The Western Limit of the World (Random House 2005).Peter Shahrokh was born in Berkeley and earned a BA in English from UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in American Literature from UC Davis, and much later received a working-professionals MBA from the same institution. He worked as an analyst for the University of California Davis Office of Architects and Engineers and retired in 2016. Shahrokh has studied in Vienna, and taught English and American Literature at the Università di Pisa. In 2005 he learned to paint with watercolors, and, from his website, he now delivers eclectic biweekly online-newsletters to 150 subscribers to accompany digital images of his latest paintings. His website is petershahrokh.com.Dawn Yackzan and David Masiel will be featured authors at Stories on Stage Davis on Saturday, March 11th, 2023.Former California poet laureate Dana Gioia will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, March 16th, 2023.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 3/1/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy and his first guest, alien hunter and exhibit designer Hugh Mackenzie, take a conversational romp through all things paranormal, including the extensive paranormal entertainment offerings of the Encounters UFO Xperience pop-up museum in Davis. Later in the hour, we hear from UC Davis Associate Dean of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Kupiri Ackerman-Barger about her work mitigating medical disparities, the practice of cultural humility, and building a bridge to readers when writing her book on health equity.Piri Ackerman-Barger is associate dean for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and a clinical professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. As associate dean for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Ackerman-Barger leads the school’s efforts to create a diverse and welcoming setting in which to learn, work and collaborate. She also designs initiatives to make the school’s learning environments, workforce, programs, services and partnerships more diverse and inclusive.Ackerman-Barger’s academic interests relate to health equity and social justice. She is a national consultant and speaker on strategies on mitigating health disparities and advancing health equity. She is currently writing a book about how nurses can advance health equity by using cultural humility as a framework for practice. It is from this work that she will be reading at Poetry Night.See “The Greatest Show Beyond Earth” at Encounters UFO Xperience, The Official UFO Museum and Club, at 871 Russell Blvd, Davis CA (next to Trader Joe's). Experience the world of aliens, UFOs and the paranormal right here in Davis! Explore an alien museum with a spaceship, movie props from E.T., The Predator, and Terminator, ancient aliens, accounts of extraterrestrial sightings, and the Abductee Outreach Room for your own alien encounter story! Meet those who have seen the spaceships and the orbs! Mingle with ufologists, cryptozoologists, believers and debunkers! Find out more about Encounters UFO Xperience at http://www.ufoxperience.com.Dr. Andy Jones will read with Piri Ackerman-Barger at the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, March 2nd.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 2/15/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy and poet Robert Thomas discuss Thomas’s new book, Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff, including his approach to sonnetry, themes of unconventional jealousy, and the diminished attention span of modern writers and their readers. He shares a poem using the familiar and human to convey an alien longing. Next up is writer Beverly Burch, who tells us about her new book Leave Me a Little Want, its themes of hunger, and how it emerged from our zeitgeist of impending catastrophe. She shares a poem musing about a muse. Livermore poet laureate emerita Connie Post rejoins the program to talk with Dr. Andy about her new book Between Twilight, and its bold exploration of liminal spaces, before sharing two rich and captivating poems. Finally, Dr. Andy reads an essay from his weekly blog, a story about foreshadowing, or simply the payoffs of a kindhearted mentorship.Robert Thomas’s latest book, Sonnets with Two Torches and a Cliff, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University, and his collection Dragging the Lake was also published by Carnegie Mellon. His novella Bridge, a sort of novel in prose poems, was published by BOA and received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. He has received an NEA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Thomas lives with his wife and their three cats in Oakland.Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Leave Me a Little Want (Terrapin Books), and two nonfiction books. Her work has won the John Ciardi Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Gival Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New England Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, and Los Angeles Review. She is just completing her first novel. Find out more at www.beverlyburch.com.Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet who has been writing and publishing for over twenty five years. Her work has received praise from Al Young, Ursula LeGuin, Ellen Bass, Maxine Chernoff, Dean Rader, and former US Poet Laureate Juan Herrera.Post’s first full length collection Floodwater was the winner of the 2014 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. Her second full length collection Prime Meridian was just released in January of 2020. (Glass Lyre Press) Prime Meridian was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards, 2021 International Book Awards and the 2020 American Fiction Awards. (American Book Fest). Prime Meridian was selected as a distinguished favorite in the 2022 Independent Press Awards. Her third full-length collection Between Twilight was published this February by New York Quarterly Books.She has two chapbooks from Finishing Line Press And When The Sun Drops and Trip Wires. Her other books include Waking State (Small Poetry Press) and 2 other self-published books about parenting a son with autism.Robert Thomas and Beverly Burch will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series today, Thursday, February 16th, at the John Natsoulas Gallery.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 2/8/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Poet and editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series Jesse Lee Kercheval joins the show to discuss grief, love, and family in her new poetry collection I Want to Tell You, talk about her journey as a poetry translator, and share a migratory and moving poem. Next, Sacramento poet laureate emeritus Indigo Moor talks to Dr. Andy about observing the duties of a poet laureate emeritus (there are none), writing about his past, and bearing witness to a changing country. The latter topic is the subject of a poem he then shares with listeners. Finally, storyteller Kate Farrell lets us in on the joys of the Sacramento Writers Conference (at which she will be a co-presenter) and her book Story Power.Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. She is the author of America that island off the coast of France and Dog Angel and the translator of Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. A bilingual Spanish-English edition of her selected poems, La crisis es el cuerpo, translated by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, was published in Argentina and is forthcoming in Mexico. She is also the author of the Alex Award–winning memoir Space and the short story collection Underground Women.Kercheval has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1987. Since 2010, Kercheval has regularly spent time in Uruguay learning Rioplatense Spanish. Her new book is titled I Want to Tell You.Indigo Moor is a multi-genre award-winning writer and teacher. His second book of poetry, Through the Stonecutter’s Window, won the Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first book, Tap-Root, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. In 2021, he published Everybody's Jonesin' for Something. His stageplay Live! at the Excelsior was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award. Also trained as an engineer, Moor is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program, where he studied poetry, fiction, and scriptwriting; and a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. A musician and photographer, Indigo's collaborations include the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Festival, the Livermore Ekphrastic Project, and the Davis Jazz Arts Festival.A graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies, UC Berkeley, Kate Farrell has been a language arts classroom teacher (pre-school and grades kindergarten through 12th), author, librarian, university lecturer, and storyteller in Northern California since 1966. She founded the Word Weaving Storytelling Project in collaboration with the California State Department of Education to train educators at all levels, and published numerous educational materials. Her recent book, Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories was a Gold winner in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award.Robert Thomas and Beverly Burch will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis on February 16th. Find details at http://www.poetryindavis.com. Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 2/1/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is UC Davis philosophy professor Alyssa Ney. Ney discusses a philosophical worldview informed by quantum entanglement, the subject of her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics and her upcoming Book Chat. Next, poet Susan Kelly-DeWitt shares the abecedarian title poem from her 2022 poetry collection Gatherer’s Alphabet and tells us about the Tule Review, including why and how to submit. Later, writer Teresa Pham-Carsillo talks Poetry Night, her submission process, and how her editorial role as a UC Davis student years ago informs her work today. She then shares a poignant poem. Dr. Andy rounds out the hour by reading “Agoraphobia” by poet Linda Pastan in honor of her recent passing.Alyssa Ney is a Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Graduate Advisor at the University of California, Davis, where she has taught since July 2015. She received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Brown University, and her MS in Physics from UC Davis. She is Associate Editor at The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and past-President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science. Her research focuses primarily on fundamentality, the unity of science, and the interpretation of quantum theories.Sacramento resident Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the inaugural poet in the California Poets Series with her book Gatherer’s Alphabet (February 2022). She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2020), Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016), The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008), and a number of previous small press and online collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. Teresa Pham-Carsillo is a Vietnamese American writer of poetry and fiction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Communications from UC Davis. Her published works have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous publications, including Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Black Warrior Review. She was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship and was nominated by Salt Hill Journal for the 2021 Pushcart Prize in Fiction. She was a finalist for the 2022 BART Lines Short Story Contest, and her story Interior Life can be found in dispensers at BART stations throughout the Bay Area.Alyssa Ney will discuss her 2022 book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics at the Davis Humanities Institute Book Chats series on February 8 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at International House, 10 College Park, Davis, CA, 95616. Teresa Pham-Carsillo and Rooja Mohassessy will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on February 2nd at the John Natsoulas Gallery.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 1/25/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy is first joined by Josh Henderson of Warp Trio, Artists-in-Residence at the UC Davis Department of Music. Henderson talks mixing genres, collaborating with spoken word artist DJ LiKWUiD, and the concepts at play in some of Warp Trio’s music, which can be heard at various points throughout the hour. Michael French drops in to share some free arts events, including two Warp Trio concerts and an exhibit at the UCD Design Museum. Emmy Award-winning artist Steve Oerding tells us all about his five-volume comic series Ranger Ralph, including continuing the newspaper comic tradition, turning a passion project into a business, and lessons he learned about the industry through lucky breaks and naive mistakes. Finally, postdoctoral food researcher and poet Dr. Kyle Hamilton joins the show to share a pizza poem about discovering the perfect harmony between two sensory extremes.Described as “a talented group that exemplifies the genre-obliterating direction of contemporary classical music” (Columbia Free Times), Warp Trio is an internationally touring cross-genre chamber music experience.  The one-of-a-kind trio reflects the combination of Juilliard-trained members juxtaposed with members steeped in rock and jazz styles.Black Voices is an original concert program that integrates classical, jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word—sounds and poetry created by African-American artists—in an effort to lift up lesser-known contributions that define the multifaceted culture of the United States. Featuring the award-winning artist LiKWuiD, the program utilizes poetry of Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Maya Angelou. It also features original spoken word material, set against music by Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, Harry Burleigh, and original compositions by Warp Trio members. Steven Oerding is an Emmy Award-winning artist and creator of the Ranger Ralph Comic book series. Steve and his wife Sharon run Oerding Illustrated, a mom & pop business in NorCal that does everything in-house but the printing. The Ranger Ralph comic was originally created for the couple’s two small children after Steve attended the San Diego Comic Con in 1995 and couldn’t find anything that served the kids’ age group. The Ranger Ralph comic has grown from humble beginnings as a side project, finally becoming a full-time focus after Steve’s retirement from UC Davis in 2019 after almost 30 years of graphics, media, photography and 2D animation work.Dr. Kyle Patrick Hamilton is a poet writing about food, machines, and the strangeness of having a body. Their work has featured in Powders Press and will be in the upcoming The World Beyond Our Station charity sci-fi zine. They're also a postdoctoral researcher in food science, specializing in flavor research, computational linguistics, and how we talk to each other about food.Warp Trio’s free Black Voices event will take place January 26, 2023 from 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm in the Ann E. Pitzer Center at UC Davis. Their second free event featuring works by graduate students will take place January 27, 2023 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, also at the Ann E. Pitzer Center.Rooja Mohassessy will read with Teresa Pham-Carsillo at the Poetry Night Reading Series on February 2nd, 2023.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 1/18/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is poet Brad Buchanan. Buchanan discusses his new book Chimera and the medical significance of its name, describes the role of memorization in developing a poetry performance, and shares a poem about genetic chimerism. Next, we’re joined by Founder & Director of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science Katharine Burnett, along with professor Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague and graduate student Hunter Kiley, to hear about the initiative and its upcoming 8th Annual Colloquium. Later, poet Frank Dixon Graham joins the show, discussing his work with the Sacramento Poetry Alliance and sharing a poem which observes an unusual career shift. Later still, California Aggie staff writer Rebeka Zeljko tells us a bit about her journalistic exploration of invasive technology.Brad Buchanan’s writings have appeared in more than 200 journals, and he has published four  book-length collections of poetry: The Miracle Shirker; Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter; The Scars, Aligned: A Cancer Narrative; and Chimera. His medical memoir, Living with Graft-Versus-Host Disease: How I Stopped Fighting Cancer and Started Healing, was published in 2021 by Armin Lear Press.Frank Dixon Graham’s work appears in over fifty national literary journals, including Evansville Review, Nassau Review, This Land, Hawaii Pacific Review, and the Harvard University Scriptorium. His chapbooks include The Infinite In Between (Broken Arrow Press, 2013) and Out On the Reach (Broken Arrow Press, 2009). Graham recently was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and received honorable mentions for the Muriel Craft Bailey Prize and the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. The Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science promotes evidence-based knowledge about tea, the most consumed prepared beverage in the world. The 8th Annual GTI Colloquium: Tea and Value will take place Thursday, Jan 19, 2023 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm at the UC Davis Conference Center.Brad Buchanan will read with Frank Dixon Graham at the Poetry Night Reading Series at 7 PM on Thursday, January 19th, 2023.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 1/11/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy is joined by Nebraska State Poet and Pushcart Prize recipient Matt Mason. Mason discusses his State Poet duties, his plan to perform in all 93 Nebraska counties, his hope to make a living as a poet, the act of writing geographically, and his profound renewed interest in Disneyland. He shares one poem encouraging us to support poets, a second celebrating the Nebraska Memorial Forest, and a third reflecting on an immersive childhood experience.The Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason was Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department, he has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in The New York Times, on NPR’s Morning Edition, in American Life in Poetry, and more. Mason’s 4th book, At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros, was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia.Brad Buchanan will read with Frank Dixon Graham at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis as part of the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, January 19th.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 1/4/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is first ever poet laureate of the city of Davis, Allegra Silberstein, who shares a bit about her new book Dancing with the Morning Breeze, followed by a poem. Poet Jean Biegun joins the show next to discuss catching a poem off-guard, spinning inspiration into language, and releasing her new book Hitchhikers to Eden, from which she shares a poem. Finally, Naomi Janowitz, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis, shares her expertise on the mystical origins of language across cultures and developing an abstract theory to compare them.Allegra Silberstein was the first poet laureate of the City of Davis. Originally from Wisconsin, Silberstein has lived in California since 1963. In addition to three chapbooks of poetry, she has been widely published in print journals and online publications. Her first book of poems, West of Angels, was published by Cold River Press in March of 2015, and in 2022, Kelsay Books published her new chapbook, Dancing with the Morning Breeze.Jean Biegun began writing in 2000, a few years before retiring from a career in special education with the Chicago Public Schools. Her poems have appeared in over 100 journals, anthologies, art exhibits, and even in a gumball machine at a state poetry convention. In 2022, she received the Eastern Iowa Review’s Christine Award for Best Prose Poem of 2021. Her work was included in Best of Mad Swirl 2021 Anthology, and her chapbook Hitchhikers to Eden was published by Kelsay Books. Gyroscope Review recently nominated her poem “Edge Effects” for a Pushcart Prize. Naomi Janowitz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of Poetics of Ascent (1989) and numerous articles on the religions of late antiquity. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies (with Honors) from Brown University, her M.A. in History of Religions at Divinity School, University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, with her dissertation The Poetics of Religion.Naomi Janowitz will discuss her 2022 book Acts of Interpretation: Ancient Religious Semiotic Ideologies and their Modern Echoes Wednesday, January 11th, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at I-House in Davis. Find out more at https://dhi.ucdavis.edu/events/book-chat-naomi-janowitz-acts-interpretation-2022.Allegra Silberstein will read with Jean Biegun at the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis on January 5th, 2023.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 12/28/22 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is Pushcart-nominated fiction writer and poet (and UC Davis alum) Teresa Pham-Carsillo, who shares musings on accountability buddies, her day job as a marketing ghostwriter, and her current inspirations, then reads a pandemic poem (published in Poetry) reflecting on our unsettling “march towards stillness.” Poet John Dorsey joins Dr. Andy next to talk sourcing inspiration, geographical poetry, and the process behind his new book Maple Leaf Zen. He then shares a poem. Later, United States Chess Federation Master John Langreck lets us in on the internet democratization of chess and the young talent he guides as a chess coach. Finally, Cristina Deptula stops by to inform Davis residents about Metamorphosis, a New Year's Eve variety show. Teresa Pham-Carsillo is a Vietnamese American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, she became an office-bound marketer, stealing time in the early and late hours of the day to write poems and short stories. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, The Minnesota Review, Smartish Pace, The Penn Review, and Wild River Review. She was a finalist for the 2022 One Story Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, made the longlist for the 2021 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize by Salt Hill Journal.John Dorsey is the author of more than 50 collections of poetry, including Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015), Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016), Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Poetry, 2017), Your Daughter's Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019), Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Afterlife Karaoke (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2021) and Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022). In 2022, he released Maple Leaf Zen (Crisis Chronicles Press) and From Jersey to Belle (Kindle Direct Publishing).Dorsey’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize. He was the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous.John Langreck is a CPA practicing in Sacramento and a United States Chess Federation (USCF) Master. He was a member of the Armed Forces championship chess team and 5 U.S. amateur championship teams. He has coached numerous students from beginners to experts.Metamorphosis is a New Year's Eve art, music, comedy, spoken word, and open mic show that will start at 2 P.M. on Saturday, December 31st in the fellowship hall of Davis Lutheran Church, 317 East Eighth Street, and ring in the new year at 4 P.M. (midnight GMT). All are welcome at this non-religious event. Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metamorphosis-intergenerational-music-art-lit-and-dialogue-tickets-440548371037.Allegra Silberstein will read with Jean Biegun at the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis on January 5th, 2023.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 12/21/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Entertainment and culture writer Oliver Jones joins us from Los Angeles to share movie reviewer wisdom, including his top films of the year. Former Davis city councilman Stephen Souza brings vacation news from Hawaii, political news about a struggling Ukraine, and a special winter solstice poem. Finally, continuing a December tradition, Dr. Andy reads two holiday poems.Oliver Jones has spent the past 20 plus years writing about culture, social justice and breaking news for top magazines and websites. As a staff writer for People magazine for a decade, he wrote about some of the defining social issues of our time, including gays and lesbians in the highest ranks of the military, LGBTQ life in the American heartland, and the crisis of African-American violence in L.A. Originally trained as a culture journalist (he’s covered over a dozen Oscar shows), he is equally adept in the world of social justice, covering topics like the failed drug war, the fight for fifteen, and America's education crisis for the Daily Beast, Yahoo!, and others. He is also a film and music critic and writes extensively about art institutions, including the Getty and The Museum of Jurassic Technology. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a journalism professor at Emerson College, where he teaches social justice and entertainment journalism. Find Oliver’s recent review of 15 momentous 2022 films here.Steven Souza was a member of the Davis City Council from 2004 to 2012. He is a lifelong California resident, and a Davis resident since 1979. He graduated from CSU Sacramento with a BA in government. Since 1975, Souza has been a small business owner, and is currently the owner of Ultra Clean Pool Service. He has done extensive civic service and participated in a great number of volunteer opportunities, having served as Yolo County LAFCO City Member, Yolo Natural Heritage Program Vice Chair, Davis Recreation and Park Commission Chair, Davis Human Relations Commission Chair, Davis Finance and Budget Commission officer, Street Tree Commission officer, DCTV Board of Directors and Chair, DCTV Board of Directors and Chair, and Davis Democratic Club president.Three of the favorite films of film critic Oliver Jones: The Quiet Girl (2022): In 1981 rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.Broker (2022): Boxes are left out for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies.Aftersun (2022): Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier.Allegra Silberstein will read with Jean Biegun at the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis on January 5th, 2023.Happy holidays from Dr. Andy and producer Katerina Hanks!Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 12/14/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Davis poet Beth Suter tells us about her journal submission process and her new book Snake and Eggs. She shares two poems from the book exploring nature and the gift of family history. Colorado poet and editor Andrew Hemmert talks geographical poetry in a deteriorating world, then shares two poems from his new book Blessing the Exoskeleton, an effort to elegize certain vulnerable cities before their climatological destruction. Finally, we hear a short essay from Dr. Andy’s weekly blog, this edition spotlighting a special Dr. Andy skill – speed poetry.Beth Suter grew up in rural Missouri close to grandparents who survived the Great Depression by gathering wild food. She learned that the forest was both a place to look for beauty and a place to look for lunch. She has had a deep connection with nature ever since and considers herself an ecopoet. She started writing poems as an undergraduate studying Environmental Science at U.C. Davis, and continued writing during her years as a naturalist and teacher.She started publishing poetry in 2013, and has since appeared in over forty publications including Colorado Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street, DMQ Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review. She won first place in the Nature Category at the 2013 Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest and was chosen as a finalist in the Pat Schneider Poetry Contest in 2015. A 2016 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference alumna, she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and once nominated for a Best of the Net Prize in 2020. She participates widely in workshops and readings in Davis and at the Sacramento Poetry Center. Her 2022 book from Finishing Line Press is titled Snake and Eggs.Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (Pitt Poetry Series) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various magazines including The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He previously served as an assistant editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press.Beth Suter will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series (with an introduction and short holiday story from Dr. Andy Jones) at 7 PM on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 12/7/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is prolific crimewriter Catriona McPherson, who shares some tantalizing tidbits about her new mystery novel Scot in a Trap. Next, award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling novelist Mary Mackey joins the show to discuss the origins of creativity (as she does in her 2022 book, Creativity: Where Poems Begin), including how a series of high fevers allowed her to access a wordless and inventive headspace. Finally, UCSF Collaborative Learning Environment manager Jon Johnson puts the Technology in Poetry and Technology Hour with his insights on “deep work,” an approach to productivity that recognizes the need to step back.Catriona McPherson was born near Edinburgh and lived there, in Ayrshire, in Dumfriesshire and in Galloway before moving to California in 2010, where she lives on the land of the Patwin people. A born swot, she finally left school at age thirty with a PhD in linguistics from Edinburgh University. Proper jobs have included banking (hopeless), library work in local studies and fine art (heaven), and a short burst of academia (hell). But she’s been a full-time writer since 2005 and hopes never to have a proper job again. Among numerous prizes, she has won two of Left Coast Crime's coveted Humorous Lefty Awards for the Last Ditch comedies.Mary Mackey has published eight volumes of poetry (including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence; and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of the Erich Hoffer Award for the Best Book Published by a Small Press), a short novel (Immersion—the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press), and thirteen other novels. Her recently published (2022) non-fiction book Creativity: Where Poems Begin looks at the origins of inspiration.Mackey’s works have appeared on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Lists, sold over a million and a half copies, and been translated into twelve foreign languages including Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet, she has sold feature-length screenplays to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. Jon Johnson is the manager of the UCSF Collaborative Learning Environment, and Lead Developer on The Ilios Project: Curriculum Management for the Health Professions. His areas of expertise include educational administration and curriculum development, building diverse teams, open source community maintenance and communication, and organization architecture and development.Catriona McPherson will read from her new novel Scot in a Trap at the Avid Reader bookstore, 617 2nd St in Davis, Thursday, Dec 8, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. She will be bringing wrapped chocolates in addition to the wine, soft drinks, and British candies already provided.Beth Suter and Bethanie Humphries will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on December 15th.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 11/30/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy interviews poet and UC Davis professor Katie Peterson! Peterson talks with Dr. Andy about her most recent book; about the ways that lines, images, and poems come to her;  and the process by which she discovers refrains rather than designating them. She then reads us a poem (with a refrain), titled “The Night,” a perpetual inquiry into endings and beginnings. Later, we hear select recordings of Donald Hall speaking about his entry into poetry and his experiences meeting with T.S. Eliot. Finally, listeners get a sample of Dr. Andy’s weekly blog, this edition bringing us a Thanksgiving tale of true ingenuity.Katie Peterson’s collections of poetry include This One Tree (2006), Permission (2013), The Accounts (2013), the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas, and A Piece of Good News (2019), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her fifth book, Life in a Field, a collaboration with photographer Young Suh, was selected by Rachel Zucker for the 2020 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. Her edition of the Brief Selected Poems of Robert Lowell was published in 2017. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Changes Review, Literary Imagination, the New York Review of Books, and most of the other prestigious markets for the best poems. Peterson directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis, where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow.Katie Peterson will read with Christian Gullette at the Poetry Night Reading Series this Thursday, December 1st, 7:00 PM at the Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 11/23/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy’s first guest is Joe Mills, whose odd yet delightful Thanksgiving tradition inspires discussion of how constraints foster creativity. Mills then shares a Thanksgiving poem ironically preaching freedom from Thanksgiving. Miranda Phinney, first-year Physics major and student of Dr. Andy’s Bravery Studies class, reads us an original poem. Performance poet Felicity Artemis speaks with Dr. Andy about her mission to inspire visions of a hopeful future, then shares the second Thanksgiving-themed poem of the hour, a fiery exploration of the holiday. Finally, we hear a taste of Dr. Andy’s weekly blog, reminding us of the importance of the arts.A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and was honored with a 2017 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. His work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published seven volumes of poetry with Press 53: Bodies in Motion; Exit, pursued by a bear; This Miraculous Turning, Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet; Love and Other Collisions; Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, and Somewhere During the Spin Cycle.With his wife, Danielle Tarmey, he researched and wrote two editions of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries. He has also edited a collection of film criticism entitled A Century of the Marx Brothers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). He won the 2017 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network for his essay, "On Hearing My Daughter Trying to Sing Dixie." In 2015, he won the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for This Miraculous Turning.Felicity Artemis is a performance poet, socio-political theorist, and future-mythologist. As performance artist and storyteller, Felicity Artemis is a “rebel-rouser” and a cultural heretic. Felicity's artistic mission is to disrupt the dystopian narrative that has colonized the collective imagination by evoking the empathic genius that exists within us all--to enable us to redirect the narrative toward visions of the future that are based on a universal ethos of empathy and spiritual reverence for all life on earth. Felicity Artemis is a daughter of survivors of the Holocaust, which informs her unique perspective on the human condition. For over 40 years Felicity has been a writer, educator and self-styled socio-political theorist in the areas of eco-feminism and Earth-based spirituality, teaching about the connection between racism, sexism and destruction of the natural world.Felicity Artemis will perform The End of Dystopia, presented by the Davis Community Vision Alliance, Saturday, November 26th, at 2:00 P.M. on the porch of The Wardrobe, 117 D Street in Davis.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 11/16/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:It’s a full house! Dr. Andy’s esteemed first guest is Erika Chong Shuch, 2022 Granada Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis. Shuch discusses working with students in a devised process, and expanding the “creativity prompts” of stage directions into full-fledged narratives, for The Fall Show. Next, UC Davis arts administrator Michael French shares upcoming events in the arts, heeding the calls of Davis-area listeners wanting some extra creative enrichment. Finally, students Luke Albert, Amber-Elise Harris, Abbie Hoi, Aria Liang, Geetika Mahajan, Bianca Mondragon, Viviana Padilla, Maeta Phoupraseut, Alondra Ramirez, and Estaina Ortiz bravely share original poems as contracted by Dr. Andy’s first-year seminar Bravery Studies: Three Poems A Week.Erika Chong Shuch is a performance maker, choreographer and director whose topic-driven ruminations coalesce into imagistic assemblages of music, movement, text, and design. Interested in expanding ideas around how performance is created and shared, Shuch’s work has been performed in city halls, theaters, industrial office spaces, diners, parking lots and food courts. As the Fall 2022 Granada Artist in Residence, Shuck is directing a UC Davis production titled The Fall Show.André Naffis-Sahely will read with Natachi Mez Thursday, November 17th at the Poetry Night Reading Series. Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 11/9/2022 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Acclaimed poet Suzanne Frischkorn talks to Dr. Andy about authors who inspire her, her search for her cultural identity, and the ways these topics are illuminated in her newest poetry collection, Fixed Star. We then hear two reflective and beautiful sonnets from Fixed Star. In the second half of the show, listeners get to overhear a live midterm whereby students from Dr. Andy’s first year seminar Bravery Studies: Three Poems A Week must read their own poems aloud to the Poetry and Technology audience. Emily Granger, an English major from Redding, California, gives the widely unpopular I-5 freeway a dreamy poetic makeover. Maya Simkin, a political science major from the San Fernando Valley, unravels a unique ritual for tracking the passage of time. Finally, Dr. Andy reads an excerpt from his weekly blog, which takes a cue from Ralph Waldo Emerson in appreciating our reciprocity with nature.Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Fixed Star (JackLeg Press, September 2022) as well as the books Girl on a Bridge and Lit Windowpane (both from Main Street Rag Press), and the chapbooks American Flamingo, Spring Tide, Red Paper Flower, Exhale, and The Tactile Sense.She is the recipient of The Writer’s Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Verse Daily, Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems (part of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet Series (Knopf)), Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020), NPR’s Poetry Moment podcast, and elsewhere.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 11/2/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy talks to his first guest, poet Dr. Joshua McKinney, about pandemic poetry, carving out time for hobbies, and how he hunts for new and exciting words. McKinney shares two poems, the first promising us a “lexical beatdown,” the second taking us back to the creation of one of the oldest known artworks. Joining Dr. Andy in the second half is poet and teacher Matthew Chronister, who shares his inspirations, his influences, and his projects, which include a poetry book about assisted living and a grandparent’s aging (from which he shares a rousing poem). Finally, we hear an excerpt from Dr. Andy’s weekly blog, a reflection on ghosts impermanent and permanent.Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He teaches literature and creative writing at California State University, Sacramento. His hobbies include guinea pig wrangling and playing the banjo. An amateur lichenologist, he is a member of the California Lichen Society. With Tim Kahl, he edits the online ecopoetry journal Clade Song.Matthew Chronister is from Sacramento, California, where he lives with his wife, Brie, and their dog, Bella. He teaches AP English at Union Mine High School, where he is also advisor for the anime and book clubs. He received his BA and MA from Sacramento State University, where he studied and wrote poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry Now, Suisun Valley Review and 8-West Press. His first collection of poems, Memory Care, is available from Finishing Line Press.Joshua McKinney and Matthew Chronister will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on November 3rd at the John Natsoulas Gallery.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.

On the 10/26/22 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy talks to author and poet Lauren Scharhag about a new five-stanza poetry form and its invitation for reflection in poet and listener alike. Scharhag shares a poem in said form, brimming with expressive imagery, then a shorter poem about a personal struggle. Later, Sacramento arts all-rounder Patrick Grizzell joins us to celebrate the very Sacramento Poetry Day he helped develop! Grizzell shares provocative poetry and related musings. Finally, listeners get a taste of the Poetry Night Reading Series through a sampling of Dr. Andy’s weekly Substack.Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an associate editor for GLEAM: A Journal of the Cadralor, and the author of fifteen books. Some of her titles include Requiem for a Robot Dog (Cajun Mutt Press), Languages, First and Last (Cyberwit Press), and The Order of the Four Sons series (with Coyote Kishpaugh). She has had over 200 publications in literary venues around the world. Recent honors include the SFFP Speculative Poetry Contest (Honorable Mention), the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest (Finalist), and the Seamus Burns Creative Writing Prize (Winner). Her work has also been nominated for multiple Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Rhysling Award nominations. She lives in Kansas City, MO. Patrick Grizzell is a poet, songwriter and visual artist. His books include Dark Music, Chicken Months (about which Robert Bly wrote "the poems have a sweet spontaneity and tenderness”), Minotaure Into Night (with sumi paintings by Jimi Suzuki), 13 Poems, It's Like That, and The Vignettes, a work in progress. Grizzell was a founding member and previous director of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and is currently an advisor to the board. Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.