Poetry Night with Geffrey Davis and Caitlyn Curran
Poetry Night with Geffrey Davis and Caitlyn Curran
Join us to celebrate work by established poet Geffrey Davis and Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize winner Caitlyn Curran.
This event is free and open to the public at Auntie's Bookstore.
About the books
Night Angler, Geffrey Davis's second collection of poems, reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family. In poems that express a deep sense of gratitude and wonder, Davis delivers a heart-strong prayer that longs for home, for safety for Black lives, and for the messy success of breaking through the trauma of growing up during the crack epidemic to create a new model of fatherhood. Filled with humor and tenderness, Night Angler sings its own version of a song called grace--sung with a heavy and hopeful mix of inherited notes and discovered chords.
With Midnight Down Your Throat will be Caitlyn Curran's first published full-length poetry manuscript. It is forthcoming from Willow Springs Books.
About the poets
Geffrey Davis is the author of two full collections of poetry: Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019) and Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, 2014), winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. He is also the author of the chapbook Begotten (URB Books, 2016), coauthored with F. Douglas Brown. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, New England Review, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis teaches for the University of Arkansas’s MFA in Creative Writing & Translation and for The Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.
Caitlyn Curran holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Her recent work can be found in: The American Journal of Poetry, Basalt, Grist, Hubbub, Miramar, PANK, Raleigh Review, SALT, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Willow Springs and elsewhere. She was a 2018 Centrum Fellow at the Port Townsend Writers Conference, recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets Prize, and runner-up in the 2021 Grist Proforma Contest. Her full-length manuscript, With Midnight Down Your Throat, was selected as the 2022 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize winner, and is forthcoming from Willow Springs Books.