Andy Jones
Monday November 14 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street
Host: Bob Stanley
Dr. Andy Jones is a poet, MC, faculty member at UC Davis, radio talk show host, academic technology center director, and public speaker. Andy has taught writing and literature classes at the University of California, Davis since 1990, and since 2000 has hosted “Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour” on KDVS, Wednesday afternoons at 5:00 P.M. Among the 1,000 guests he has interviewed on the radio show have been Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, Ian MacKaye, and Gary Snyder. Andy also coordinates and hosts the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California (first and third Thursdays at the John Natsoulas Gallery).
His poems have appeared in many small journals and newspapers, including Poetry Digest, Epicenter, A Light Left On, The Homestead Review, Snakeskin, The Blue Moon Literary and Art Review, and The Sacramento News and Review. Andy is working on a variety of book projects, including a book on putting poetry into prose, a book on creativity and professional development, and abook on parenting (co-authored by his wife, Kate). His next poetry book, newly in search of a publisher, is titled Cages. Andy’s most recent book of poetry, Split Stock, was published in 2006. He has performed poetry throughout Northern California, and in Nara, Japan. Find out more about Andy Jones at http://www.andyojones.com.
Alcoholic’s Bucolic
I wish to disappear so far into my drink
That I would actually disappear.
I wish to be drunk as much as
My wine wishes to be drunk.
Together we will prove the pleasures
Of a thousand fermented roses.
Purple pool, darkest deep end,
Pupils more rich than any woman’s,
I shall dive and dive and dive,
And may I never hit the bottom.
