Friday, December 19, 2008
New Poem Published in Exhalezine.com
Exhale is a "literary magazine for intelligent people who have lost a baby,or have trouble making babies in the first place." Check out my new poem "Casino" just published in Exhale. This is a unique and much needed lit mag. Click on the button below to go to Exhale:
Thursday, December 11, 2008
2 Readings in January with Jose Padua
The old man and I will be reading together on two Sundays in January. Jose has been very productive since we moved to the boonies where people look at us (and especially him) real funny. You won't want to miss his new P-Funk inspired piece!
Sunday, January 11:
Iota Club & Cafe
Arlington, VA
6 PM
IOTA is located at 2832 Wilson Boulevard in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arington, VA. Wilson Boulevard starts in Rosslyn, which is just across the river from Washington D.C. IOTA is just a couple miles up on Wilson, between Edgewood and Fillmore Streets.
Sunday, January 18:
Washington County Museum of the Fine Arts
Hagerstown, MD
2:30 PM
"The Lost Tribe of Us" featuring poets Heather Davis, Sonja James and Jose Padua with music by the Frederick Baroque Ensemble.
Location: In the middle of the beautiful Hagerstown City Park, the Museum is easily accessible from Interstates 70 and 81. Click here for directions. Free admission. Plenty of free parking. Building is fully accessible to those with disabilities.
Sunday, January 11:
Iota Club & Cafe
Arlington, VA
6 PM
IOTA is located at 2832 Wilson Boulevard in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arington, VA. Wilson Boulevard starts in Rosslyn, which is just across the river from Washington D.C. IOTA is just a couple miles up on Wilson, between Edgewood and Fillmore Streets.
Sunday, January 18:
Washington County Museum of the Fine Arts
Hagerstown, MD
2:30 PM
"The Lost Tribe of Us" featuring poets Heather Davis, Sonja James and Jose Padua with music by the Frederick Baroque Ensemble.
Location: In the middle of the beautiful Hagerstown City Park, the Museum is easily accessible from Interstates 70 and 81. Click here for directions. Free admission. Plenty of free parking. Building is fully accessible to those with disabilities.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Reading at The Daily Grind on July 17 and More
Jose Padua, Kristin Camitta Zimet, and I will be reading at The Daily Grind at 215 Main Street in Front Royal on Thursday July 17.
This event is part of the Third Thursday Art Walk in Front Royal--come on down and sip on a cool coffee frap and catch some metaphors then stroll on over to The Lucky Star Lounge for some Guinness or hard cider.
Future Readings:
This event is part of the Third Thursday Art Walk in Front Royal--come on down and sip on a cool coffee frap and catch some metaphors then stroll on over to The Lucky Star Lounge for some Guinness or hard cider.
Future Readings:
- Thursday, August 21 at the Gallery of the Blue Ridge Arts Council as part of "Virginia Monologues"
- Sunday, September 14 at Iota Bar and Cafe in Clarendon, VA
- Friday, October 3 at the Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, VA
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Poetry Coming to Front Royal!
Well, I've finally hooked up with some artsy folks here in Front Royal and it looks like Jose (my ever faithful companion) and I will be reading on July 17 somewhere on Main Street. We're still working out the details. There is now a Third Thursday Art Walk in Front Royal and more shops are opening up. A new bar called the Lucky Star Bar is coming and a gourmet wine and cheese shop. Yeeha! We're just bursting with kultcha!
The reading in Lexington at Studio 11 was fantastic. Lexington is a beautiful town and Jeanne Larsen and Mattie Quesenberry Smith were so much fun to read with. But I really want to know how Mattie manages to write anything while home schooling her 10 kids--I mean, oh my gosh!
Here are 2 beautiful poems from Jeanne's latest book of translations from the Chinese --Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon:
Poem is attributed (!) to Pei Yixian, dates unknown, Tang dynasty
(618-907 CE):
MISSING HIM: TWO POEMS
1.
Winds lift and curl the level
sands. Sun slips
into their dusk. Signal
smoke. A distant guess--
nomads' flocks on the move.
called up, captured, gone sick
in the camps: some
heroes never come home.
I'll wear out my gaze on
barbarous skies. I'll
cry over clouds
on the northern front.
2.
Once, love, you patrolled
the western tribes. Deployed,
you took war's force
to be no heavy thing.
Now you're gone.
You're one of the dead.
What point, this leaving
a woman like me, here
to hate the dull
half-light of another day's end?
The reading in Lexington at Studio 11 was fantastic. Lexington is a beautiful town and Jeanne Larsen and Mattie Quesenberry Smith were so much fun to read with. But I really want to know how Mattie manages to write anything while home schooling her 10 kids--I mean, oh my gosh!
Here are 2 beautiful poems from Jeanne's latest book of translations from the Chinese --Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon:
Poem is attributed (!) to Pei Yixian, dates unknown, Tang dynasty
(618-907 CE):
MISSING HIM: TWO POEMS
1.
Winds lift and curl the level
sands. Sun slips
into their dusk. Signal
smoke. A distant guess--
nomads' flocks on the move.
called up, captured, gone sick
in the camps: some
heroes never come home.
I'll wear out my gaze on
barbarous skies. I'll
cry over clouds
on the northern front.
2.
Once, love, you patrolled
the western tribes. Deployed,
you took war's force
to be no heavy thing.
Now you're gone.
You're one of the dead.
What point, this leaving
a woman like me, here
to hate the dull
half-light of another day's end?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Events Coming Up Soon!
Come on out!
Book Signing:
Friday and Saturday, April 25 (2-8 PM) & April 26 (11-6 PM)
With Jose Padua and Pat Padua--Selling and signing books and photos
Winchester Wine and Fine Arts Festival
Old Town Mall-Loudon Street
Winchester, VA
http://www.thebloom.com/events/wine-arts-festival.html
Reading:
Friday, May 9, 8:00 PM
With Jose Padua and Sarah Browning of Split This Rock
Art-O-Matic
Capitol Plaza I
1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit
http://www.artomatic.org/
Reading:
Friday, May 16, 7:00 PM
With Jeanne Larsen and Mattie Quesenberry Smith; Artist reception for Agnes Carbrey
Studio 11
11 S. Jefferson St.
Lexington,VA
(540) 463-2799
http://www.studioelevenlexva.com/
Book Signing:
Friday and Saturday, April 25 (2-8 PM) & April 26 (11-6 PM)
With Jose Padua and Pat Padua--Selling and signing books and photos
Winchester Wine and Fine Arts Festival
Old Town Mall-Loudon Street
Winchester, VA
http://www.thebloom.com/events/wine-arts-festival.html
Reading:
Friday, May 9, 8:00 PM
With Jose Padua and Sarah Browning of Split This Rock
Art-O-Matic
Capitol Plaza I
1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit
http://www.artomatic.org/
Reading:
Friday, May 16, 7:00 PM
With Jeanne Larsen and Mattie Quesenberry Smith; Artist reception for Agnes Carbrey
Studio 11
11 S. Jefferson St.
Lexington,VA
(540) 463-2799
http://www.studioelevenlexva.com/
Monday, March 24, 2008
Split This Rock Festival a Smashing Success—Inspires Hundreds of Poet-Activists
I'm back to the day job after 4 amazing days at the Split This Rock Festival. Yes, I want to live every day in The Republic of Poetry. Read about the festival here--it was incredible:
The four-day festival brought hundreds of poets of conscience and activists to Washington, D.C. from all over the United States for readings, panels, workshops, a film program, walking tours, open Mics, and inspiration. The turn-out and the quality of the events were spectacular, exceeding all expectations. The Washington Post covered the festival in a lengthy and poetic article by reporter David Montgomery entitled, "Averse to War: Split This Rock's Army of Poets Marches Into Town and Raises the Anti."
Here is an excerpt:
"The poets are in town. Dozens -- no, hundreds. Hundreds of poets. Can you imagine? They are everywhere.
In long, disheveled columns, they are prowling Langston Hughes's old neighborhood around U Street NW. They are eating catfish at Busboys and Poets (where else?) and quoting Hughes, Shelley and Whitman back and forth -- "Through me many long dumb voices" -- over the hummus and merlot.
They are signing fans' battered paperbacks and shiny new ones bought on credit (autographs!). They are squinting from the stage into the cathedral depths of a filled high school auditorium, amazed at the turnout. They are sharing with preschoolers the miracle of closely observed turtles and infinity in a drop of water.
Also, to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, they are getting ready to march on the White House."
Click here to read the rest of the article.
Poet Karren LaLonde Alenier has also posted several write ups on the festival at her blog, The Dressing. Click here to read her commentary and see photos.
I'll write more about the festival soon! It was absolutely fantastic!
The four-day festival brought hundreds of poets of conscience and activists to Washington, D.C. from all over the United States for readings, panels, workshops, a film program, walking tours, open Mics, and inspiration. The turn-out and the quality of the events were spectacular, exceeding all expectations. The Washington Post covered the festival in a lengthy and poetic article by reporter David Montgomery entitled, "Averse to War: Split This Rock's Army of Poets Marches Into Town and Raises the Anti."
Here is an excerpt:
"The poets are in town. Dozens -- no, hundreds. Hundreds of poets. Can you imagine? They are everywhere.
In long, disheveled columns, they are prowling Langston Hughes's old neighborhood around U Street NW. They are eating catfish at Busboys and Poets (where else?) and quoting Hughes, Shelley and Whitman back and forth -- "Through me many long dumb voices" -- over the hummus and merlot.
They are signing fans' battered paperbacks and shiny new ones bought on credit (autographs!). They are squinting from the stage into the cathedral depths of a filled high school auditorium, amazed at the turnout. They are sharing with preschoolers the miracle of closely observed turtles and infinity in a drop of water.
Also, to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, they are getting ready to march on the White House."
Click here to read the rest of the article.
Poet Karren LaLonde Alenier has also posted several write ups on the festival at her blog, The Dressing. Click here to read her commentary and see photos.
I'll write more about the festival soon! It was absolutely fantastic!
Friday, March 7, 2008
A Reader's Reaction to The Lost Tribe of Us
I just received this from a reader:
"Just wanted to tell you how totally goddamned impressed I am with The Lost Tribe of Us. It¹s really quite an accomplishment. Just finished reading it front to back for the second time -- this time stone cold sober (mostly) -- and marveled at how it¹s positively fractal the way there¹s a entire life contained within the book and then sometimes within a single poem and then even a single line. Seriously. I found it thrilling.
You want proof? You know how you turn down the corner of a page if what you're reading is something you want to save or come back later to remember? Fully half the pages have already been clipped. I hope you're appropriately honored to know that it will be going on our bathroom shelf somewhere between Beckett, Bukowski and Jane Kenyon.
By the way, Christmas Poem for You is about the most beautiful love poem I've ever read."
"Just wanted to tell you how totally goddamned impressed I am with The Lost Tribe of Us. It¹s really quite an accomplishment. Just finished reading it front to back for the second time -- this time stone cold sober (mostly) -- and marveled at how it¹s positively fractal the way there¹s a entire life contained within the book and then sometimes within a single poem and then even a single line. Seriously. I found it thrilling.
You want proof? You know how you turn down the corner of a page if what you're reading is something you want to save or come back later to remember? Fully half the pages have already been clipped. I hope you're appropriately honored to know that it will be going on our bathroom shelf somewhere between Beckett, Bukowski and Jane Kenyon.
By the way, Christmas Poem for You is about the most beautiful love poem I've ever read."
Friday, February 15, 2008
New Writing Group in Winchester and Front Royal
I am starting a new writing group in the Winchester and Front Royal area. Here is an article in the Northern Virginia Daily about the group:
http://www.nvdaily.com/lifestyle/290994643852836.bsp
If you are interested or know someone who wants to join a workshop group (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children's lit), please contact me at heatheredit@cs.com.
This group is for intermediate-level writers only. No genre fiction please (romance, sci-fi, Christian). We will meet once a month and provide feedback to one another.
If interested, please send me a sample of your work. Hope to hear from you!
http://www.nvdaily.com/lifestyle/290994643852836.bsp
If you are interested or know someone who wants to join a workshop group (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children's lit), please contact me at heatheredit@cs.com.
This group is for intermediate-level writers only. No genre fiction please (romance, sci-fi, Christian). We will meet once a month and provide feedback to one another.
If interested, please send me a sample of your work. Hope to hear from you!
Two Readings and a Book Signing Coming Up
I've got two readings and a book signing coming up in March. Come on out now, ya hear!
1. Monday, March 3 at 8 PM
Reading for So to Speak and Phoebe Magazines
Busboys and Poets in Shirlington, VA
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
www.busboysandpoets.com
2. Sunday, March 9 at 6 PM
Iota Poetry Series
"Split This Rock"/Beltway Magazine preview reading
with Heather Davis, Brian Gilmore,
Steven B. Rogers, and Melissa Tuckey
2832 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
http://www.iotaclubandcafe.com/
3. Saturday, March 29, 9 am to 4 pm
Book signing at Virginia Festival of the Book
Main Street Rag Publishing Company Table
Omni Charlottesville Hotel Atrium
235 W. Main Street
Charlottesville, 22902
http://www.vabook.org/index.html
1. Monday, March 3 at 8 PM
Reading for So to Speak and Phoebe Magazines
Busboys and Poets in Shirlington, VA
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
www.busboysandpoets.com
2. Sunday, March 9 at 6 PM
Iota Poetry Series
"Split This Rock"/Beltway Magazine preview reading
with Heather Davis, Brian Gilmore,
Steven B. Rogers, and Melissa Tuckey
2832 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
http://www.iotaclubandcafe.com/
3. Saturday, March 29, 9 am to 4 pm
Book signing at Virginia Festival of the Book
Main Street Rag Publishing Company Table
Omni Charlottesville Hotel Atrium
235 W. Main Street
Charlottesville, 22902
http://www.vabook.org/index.html
Friday, January 25, 2008
What Readers Are Saying
Got this note today from someone in Texas. Nice to hear!
Dear Ms. Davis:
I rarely read a poetry collection all the way through at one sitting, but I couldn't tear myself away from THE LOST TRIBE OF US. Congratulations on a wonderful book. The poems are tender even in their toughness, and always well-crafted.
--A reader in Comfort, TX
Dear Ms. Davis:
I rarely read a poetry collection all the way through at one sitting, but I couldn't tear myself away from THE LOST TRIBE OF US. Congratulations on a wonderful book. The poems are tender even in their toughness, and always well-crafted.
--A reader in Comfort, TX
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
A friend of mine, Ed Hamilton, is reading at Olsson's in Dupont Circle (Washington, D.C.) from his hilarious new book about living at the infamous Chelsea Hotel in NYC. Come on out and see him on January 31. Ed and his partner Debbie have lived in one room in the Chelsea for more than 10 years next to poets, weirdos, and artists alike. More details are below. Or check out their excellent blog at http://legends.typepad.com/.
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 7pm, at Olsson's-Dupont Circle, 1307 19th St. NW, 202-785-1133 Ed Hamilton - Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca
There’s a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, a weird electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It’s an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives inhabitants to madness. Chelsea residents past and present include: Dee Ramone, Ethan Hawke, Sid Vicious, Ryan Adams, club kid/murdered Michael Alig, Sarah Bernhardt, the Warthog Factory’s Richard Bernstein, Victor Backrest, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lesbian activist Stormed DeLarverie, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huneke, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Miller. Edie Sedgwick, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and Rufus Wainwright.
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 7pm, at Olsson's-Dupont Circle, 1307 19th St. NW, 202-785-1133 Ed Hamilton - Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca
There’s a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, a weird electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It’s an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives inhabitants to madness. Chelsea residents past and present include: Dee Ramone, Ethan Hawke, Sid Vicious, Ryan Adams, club kid/murdered Michael Alig, Sarah Bernhardt, the Warthog Factory’s Richard Bernstein, Victor Backrest, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lesbian activist Stormed DeLarverie, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huneke, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Miller. Edie Sedgwick, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and Rufus Wainwright.
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