{"id":856,"date":"2020-11-09T06:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2020-11-09T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:35:43","slug":"poetry-flash-presents-a-virtual-poetry-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/poetry-flash-presents-a-virtual-poetry-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Flash\u00a0presents a virtual poetry reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Poetry Flash<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;presents a virtual poetry reading by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, from her new book, <em>Gravitational Tug<\/em>, with David Woo,&nbsp;<em>Divine Fire<\/em>, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZAsdOugrD0iEt1OnCYVxkz5LxzrdgKzDgOn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"details\">MORE ABOUT THE READERS<\/span><br \/>\nPlease join us for a <a href=\"https:\/\/poetryflash.org\/calendar\/?t=0o20201112o_kellydewitt-woo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetry Flash virtual reading<\/a> on <strong>Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 pm PST<\/strong>! We are excited to bring you Susan Kelly-DeWitt and David Woo via <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-858 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kellydewitt-woo.jpg?resize=204%2C247\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"247\"><strong>Susan Kelly-DeWitt&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;new book is&nbsp;<em>Gravitational Tug<\/em>. Ilya Kaminsky says, &#8220;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.&#8221; Her previous collections include&nbsp;<em>Spider Season<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Fortunate Islands<\/em>. 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&nbsp;<em>Library Journal<\/em>, editor of the online journal&nbsp;<em>Perihelion<\/em>, Program Director for the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Women&#8217;s Wisdom Arts Program, a Poet in the Schools and in the Prisons, a blogger for&nbsp;<em>Coal Hill Review<\/em>, 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&nbsp;<em>Poetry Flash<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-857 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; font-style: inherit;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Woo.jpg?resize=251%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Woo.jpg?resize=251%2C300&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Woo.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><strong>David Woo&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;new book&nbsp;<em>Divine Fire<\/em>&nbsp;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, &#8220;I expect David Woo to be one of the two or three poets of his generation.&nbsp;<em>Divine Fire<\/em>&nbsp;is even more wise, eloquent, and light-bringing than was&nbsp;<em>The Eclipses<\/em>. David Woo now writes the poems of our climate, in the tradition of Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Elizabeth Bishop.&#8221; 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,&nbsp;<em>The Eclipses<\/em>, won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. Woo&#8217;s work has been widely published and anthologized in publications such as&nbsp;<em>The New Yorker, New Republic, Threepenny Review, Southwest Review<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Flash&nbsp;&nbsp;presents a virtual poetry reading by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, from her new book, Gravitational Tug, with David Woo,&nbsp;Divine Fire, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/poetry-flash-presents-a-virtual-poetry-reading\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LimX-dO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susankelly-dewitt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}