Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our quarterly reading series! Download the PDF flyer at right, and read more about our featured poets below:

James Weaver has published his first book, Writing Therapy. Included in the collection are poems previously published in Penumbra, Susurrus, Collision IV, Suisun Valley Review, as well as other journals in California. On reputation alone, this poet has the crowd snapping at their seats and enjoys connecting with the audience. When he’s not doing poetry, he enjoys spending time with family and friends.

Joseph Nolan is a practicing attorney. Joseph self-published three books of poems in 2017: Human Grace, Cats Can’t Use Straws, and Sky Gardens. Joseph likes to work in rhyme and meter, writing mostly shorter poems. His writing has been published in the Sacramento Voices anthology (2017) and will be published in its upcoming 2018 Edition, in Poetry Now, an online quarterly journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and in Collision V, an anthology of poetry from local poets in combination with artistic photography from local professional photographers. He is an active member of the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.

Camille Norton’s book, A Folio for the Dark, was chosen for publication by Sixteen Rivers Press during its 2017 open reading period. It will appear in the spring of 2019. Her first book of poems, Corruption, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner, published by HarperPerennial in 2005. Her work has appeared in Field, The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, and in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. One of her poems in A Folio for the Dark,“ The Prison Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,” was published in The Best American Poetry of 2010. Camille grew up outside of Philadelphia and studied English and American Literature at Harvard University. A Professor of English at University of the Pacific, in Stockton, CA since 1994, she teaches courses in poetry, gender studies, and critical theory. She has worked collaboratively with artists and composers since the early 1990’s, when she co-edited Resurgent: New Writing by Women, an anthology of experimental writing by women in literature, film, and the visual arts. She lives in Stockton, near the San Joaquin River, and is at home in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry explores the interstices between artistic expression and the political systems that define who reads, who writes, and who is remembered.

Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016), The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008) and nine previous small press collections and online chapbooks.  Her work has appeared in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. For more information, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com.