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Susan Kelly-DeWitt

Susan Kelly-DeWitt and David Woo

12 NOVEMBER 2020 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, from her new book, Gravitational Tug, with David Woo, Divine Fire, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)

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Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 pm PST! We are excited to bring you Susan Kelly-DeWitt and David Woo via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After you register, you will receive an email invitation with a link to join the reading. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.

Susan Kelly-DeWitt's new book is Gravitational Tug. Ilya Kaminsky says, "Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a poet who finds the marvelous in the everyday, who finds in our silent moments a music, who finds wisdom in our fears and passions, and teaches us to slow down and see ourselves in ourselves. I love her work." Her previous collections include Spider Season, and The Fortunate Islands. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow whose work also appears in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She has been a reviewer for Library Journal, editor of the online journal Perihelion, Program Director for the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Women's Wisdom Arts Program, a Poet in the Schools and in the Prisons, a blogger for Coal Hill Review, and an instructor for UC Davis Continuing Education. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Northern California Book Reviewers, and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.

David Woo's new book Divine Fire is forthcoming from The University of Georgia Press in March 2021, and may be pre-ordered at this online event. Harold Bloom said of his work, "I expect David Woo to be one of the two or three poets of his generation. Divine Fire is even more wise, eloquent, and light-bringing than was The Eclipses. David Woo now writes the poems of our climate, in the tradition of Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Elizabeth Bishop." The son of Chinese immigrants, David Woo studied at Harvard, earned an MA in Chinese studies from Yale University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His first collection of poetry, The Eclipses, won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. Woo's work has been widely published and anthologized in publications such as The New Yorker, New Republic, Threepenny Review, Southwest Review, and The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America.

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7 DECEMBER 2024 — saturday

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8 DECEMBER 2024 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Kathleen McClung, Questions of Buoyancy, Kim Shuck, Pick a Garnet to Sleep in, and Maw Shein Win, Percussing the Thinking Jar, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
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10 DECEMBER 2024 — tuesday

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11 DECEMBER 2024 — wednesday

Poetry Second Wednesdays at the Newbury Park Library presents Mary Kay Rummel, Little River of Amazements, former Poet Laureate of Ventura County, share your poem with the group afterwards, hosted by poet Ron Fullerton, Newbury Park Library Meeting Room, 2331 Borchard Road, Newbury Park, and Virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: libcal.tolibrary.org/event/12621402)
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12 DECEMBER 2024 — thursday

San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In, hosts "Poem Jam," featuring poetry from poet/essayist Wanda Sabir, poet/educator Karla Brundage, Blood Lies: Race Trait(or), and poet/social worker Sara Biel, Prescribed Burn, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A and B, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events/2024/12/12/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam)
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13 DECEMBER 2024 — friday

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14 DECEMBER 2024 — saturday

Poetry on Eighth at the Blanchard Library takes place second Saturdays monthly, share a poem with the group, hosted by artist Anita McLaughlin, Blanchard Library, 119 N. 8th Street, Santa Paula, free, Noon to 2pm PST (For more information, visit: blanchardlibrary.libcal.com/event/11797749)
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