Through his writing, he crafted an identity for this wild piece of the West Coast. Warning off visitors with a thicket of “No Trespassing” signs, the poet perched there for more than half a century, gazing with a fierce eye on the Pacific Ocean, setting down his vision in words (many of them) until the day he died. There, like a bird of prey at the “very turn of the world,” 1 Jeffers clenched his talons deep into the granite. In 1914, Robinson Jeffers got his first look at the rock and surf of Carmel, at the American continent’s western edge, where he saw his destiny. Please join us on Thursday, October 7th, at 7 PM at 521 1st Street in Davis.Carmel & Big Sur, California Robinson Jeffers
Vaccinated folks are invited to join us! To protect the safety of everyone in attendance, please bring and wear your masks. Open mic participants will be limited to four minutes or two items, whichever is shorter, so we can move on to the after-party. There will be an open mic after the featured performers.
This event will take place at the Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street) at 7 PM (note the time) on Thursday, October 7. Andy’s new (free) weekly newsletter at – Please subscribe! Andy Jones, the poet laureate emeritus of the City of Davis. The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7 PM, is generously supported by the people and poets of the Sacramento Valley, and by John Natsoulas and the staff at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
His poems have appeared in Tule Review, Pearl, Chiron Review, and Nerve Cowboy and the anthologies Incidental Buildings & Accidental Beauty, Burning the Little Candle, and Late Peaches. Bradford writes about being a father of daughters during the era of global climate change and pandemic, including the anxiety and the slivers of hope that can embed into daily life. Opening for Tom Goff will be Aaron Bradford.Īaron Bradford teaches creative writing, argument, and literature courses at American River College.
He recently has been published in Spectral Realms #14 (Hippocampus Press, 2021), and is represented in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Press, 2018). He has written five chapbooks of poetry and one full-length collection, Twelve-Tone Row: Music in Words (I Street Press, 2018). An instructional assistant in the Reading and Writing Center at Folsom Lake College, Goff has degrees in music performance from Sacramento State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Tom Goff is the winner of the 2021 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize. We will be joined by two standout Sacramento poets, Tom Goff and Aaron Bradford Poetry Night in full swing! Join us at 7 PM on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1 stStreet in Davis.
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