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Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour is a weekly KDVS public affairs radio program and podcast.

On the air since the year 2000, Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour features interviews with local and faraway poets, innovative thinkers in the worlds of technology and social media, and practitioners of many other forms of creativity, including theatre, music, and writing across media. Poets with new books, creative innovators with new projects, and the representative of any local arts enterpr

ise are invited to contact Dr. Andy to schedule an appearance on Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Laurie Glover, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Susan Wolbarst this Wednesday, March 20th! Dr. Andy'...
20/03/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Laurie Glover, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Susan Wolbarst this Wednesday, March 20th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.

The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Laurie Glover’s poems have appeared in journals such as Terrain, Woman's Studies, and California Quarterly, and her essays have appeared in journals like Zyzzyva and Boom. In fall 2022, Laurie was one of 28 artists on a tall ship art and science residency in the Norwegian Arctic and in Fall 2023 she spent fall of 2023 teaching writing and literature courses for Semester at Sea.

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow, as a guest of the UK government and the UN. His work has been translated into 28 languages, and won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” At this event, Kim Stanley Robinson will be reading poetry.

Susan Wolbarst has been on a roll with publishing for the last couple of years. She won second place in the California State Poetry Society's annual contest in 2022 and tied for second place in 2023. She has been published in many print and digital literary magazines and anthologies neither you nor your listeners have ever heard of, in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. One of her most exciting achievements was to be short-listed for the Fish Poetry Prize, judged by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. The winner gets to read at a literary festival in County Cork, Ireland.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael Gallowglas and Chio Saetern this Wednesday, March 13th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technol...
13/03/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael Gallowglas and Chio Saetern this Wednesday, March 13th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.

The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Michael Todd Gallowglas is a hybrid author (with mainstream and alternative publications), storyteller, and educator from Northern California. He has written over 20 books including novels, short story collections, poetry collections, and non-fiction books. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Sierra Nevada College, and a Master in Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Nevada Reno, Tahoe. His traditional storytelling show at Renaissance Faires, Celtic Festivals, and geeky conventions has mesmerized audiences for over thirty years.

Chio is a poet making her debut in the Sacramento area. She can be seen performing her poetry at local open mics. She is also the co-founder of Sac Poets Society, a new organization that welcomes poets of all levels to join the community and share their love of poetry.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Emilie Lygren and Anara Guard on air this Wednesday, March 7th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technol...
07/03/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Emilie Lygren and Anara Guard on air this Wednesday, March 7th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Emilie Lygren is a poet and educator whose work emerges from the intersections between scientific observation and poetic wonder. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology-Biology from Brown University and has published poems in several literary journals and anthologies. Emilie's first collection of poems, What We Were Born For, was selected by Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye as the Poetry Foundation’s monthly book pick in February 2022. Emilie has also developed dozens of publications focused on nature journaling, outdoor science education, and social-emotional learning through her work at the award-winning BEETLES Project at the Lawrence Hall of Science. In her writing and teaching, Emilie calls on awareness and curiosity as tools to bring people into relationships with place, self, and community. She lives in San Rafael, California, where she wonders about oaks and teaches poetry in local classrooms.

Anara Guard is the author of the prize-winning novel, Like a Complete Unknown, a collection of short stories, and two poetry collections. Her poems have received the John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize from Kenyon College, a Jack Kerouac prize, and first place from the California State Poetry Society. Her work has been published in “Persimmon Tree,” “The Ear,” “Gold Man Review,” “Under the Gum Tree,” and elsewhere. She lives in Sacramento.

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, featuring Karin Uphoff, Lalit Kumar, and ...
02/03/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, featuring Karin Uphoff, Lalit Kumar, and Teresa Pham-Carsillo? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode can be accessed using the link below. Happy listening!

On the 2/28/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Karin Uphoff is the first guest of the hour. She reflects on prompt collecting and the robust open mic line-up at the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference. Uphoff  reads a poem ...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Karin Uphoff, Lalit Kumar, and Teresa Pham-Carsillo on air this Wednesday, February 28th! Dr....
29/02/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Karin Uphoff, Lalit Kumar, and Teresa Pham-Carsillo on air this Wednesday, February 28th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.

The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Karin Uphoff is author of Botanical Body Care; Herbs and Natural Healing for your Whole Body (2007). She has published poems in Noyo River Review, Writers of the Mendocino Coast anthologies Hooked and Erosion, California Writers Club Literary Review and Lake County Bloom. Connect with Karin via www.karinuphoff.com,

Lalit Kumar writes a regular column in 'India Currents magazine' sharing his passion for adventure and travel. His latest book, ‘Yosemite of My Heart, Poems of Adventure in California’ was recently released at San Francisco Writers Conference mid-Feb 2024. The book is available in most online platforms and local Bay area book stores. His first book 'Years Spent: Exploring Poetry in Adventure, Life and Love' was among top three Selects in Poetry genre featured in ‘Indie Spotlight’ by Publishers Weekly, July 2022. His poems have also been published in various anthologies including Everything Intensely, San Francisco Writers Conference 2022 and Poetry of Diaspora in Silicon Valley. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area, California working in the Technology sector.

Teresa Pham-Carsillo is a Vietnamese American writer based in Napa, California. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Black Warrior Review.

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, featuring Maria Breaux, Omar Shaker, and ...
23/02/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, featuring Maria Breaux, Omar Shaker, and Karma Bennett? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode can be accessed using the link below. Happy listening!

On the 2/21/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Maria Breaux shares information about an event to be held on Monday, February 26th at the Compassion Corner in Downtown Davis in honor of her late brother’s birthday. In accordance wi...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Maria Breaux, Omar Shaker, and Karma Bennett on air this Wednesday, February 21st! Dr. Andy's...
22/02/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Maria Breaux, Omar Shaker, and Karma Bennett on air this Wednesday, February 21st! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.

The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Maria Breaux has been a presence in San Francisco's indie filmmaking sphere for over 20 years with films like "Vulveeta" and "Lucha," recognized respectively with Frameline Audience Awards. Her career spans directing, writing, producing, and acting, extending beyond film into plays, solo performances, and original music contributions. Maria is also a seasoned marketing writer for notable organizations like the Greater Good Science Center, Common Sense Media, and Pinterest, leveraging her expertise cultivated through a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford University. Recently grappling with an unimaginable loss—the tragic passing of her brother, known locally in Davis, California, as "the Compassion Guy"—Maria wants to continue candidly sharing her journey in cultivating compassion amid grief, drawing from her brother's profound legacy of collecting definitions of compassion to navigate through the most challenging phase of her life.

Omar is a doctor who left medicine to explore what health really means. He explores "Nourishing the Spirit of Ambitious People" daily through his Gumption Health program, his Sunday substack at findgumption.com, and his monthly in person podcast The Gumpcast.

Karma Bennett has been published in the literary magazine Soren Lit and in the anthology Collosus: Home, a collection to benefit Moms 4 Housing. After two decades living in the South she’s escaped to Oakland, CA where she serves on the board of the Berkeley California Writers Club. By day she runs Future Is Fiction Communications, building websites and marketing plans for authors and nonprofits. By night she is writing a memoir about growing up in a home with Dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on...
16/02/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode can be accessed using the link below. Happy listening!

On the 1/31/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Michael French returns to the show with Scott Ebersold to discuss The Laramie Project, which is the current riveting contemporary drama organized by the Department of Theater and Danc...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael French, Scott Ebersold, Cami Rothmuller, and Iris Jamahl-Dunkle on air this Wednesday...
14/02/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael French, Scott Ebersold, Cami Rothmuller, and Iris Jamahl-Dunkle on air this Wednesday, February 14th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Michael G. French is an arts and theatre events marketing specialist for the UC Davis College of Letters and Science. He promotes performances and events for the departments of Art and Art History, Cinema and Digital Media, Design, Music, and Theatre and Dance. French previously held similar positions at Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Pacific Conservatory Theatre and the Walnut Street Theatre. He earned his bachelor’s degree at New Jersey City University.

Scott Ebersold is a theatre director and recent Artistic Associate of Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company. He enjoys directing classics, contemporary works, musicals, devised pieces and world premieres with a broad palette of theatrical styles from intimate multi-disciplinary video performances to large-scale commercial productions. Scott recently directed the Off-Broadway Premiere of Max Vernon’s new Musical The View UpStairs that was nominated for 2 Lortel Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical and for which Audelco/The Viv nominated him for a Best Director.

Cami Rothmuller is an undergraduate at UC Davis, pursuing a degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing, and a favorite contributor to Poetry Night. She writes about myriad aspects of life, from intimacy and trauma to nature and insects, but has a particular fascination with the intersection of nature, madness, and secular worship. She recently received the Pamela Maus Award for Poetry and the Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg English Department Essay Prize. Her newest manuscript is titled A Crucible of Sunlight.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning poet and biographer whose work challenges the American West’s male-oriented recorded history by researching the lives of women. Her fourth collection of poems, West : Fire : Archive, was published by The Center for Literary Publishing in 2021. Dunkle wrote the first full-length biography on Charmian London, Jack London’s wife, Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2020 (now available in audiobook). Her next biography, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb, is forthcoming from University of California Press in Fall 2024. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College, UC Davis, and Dominican University, and is the Poetry and Translation Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on...
09/02/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode has something for every creative: cartoons, stand-up, poetry, and painting, and can be accessed through the link below. Happy listening!

On the 1/31/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy begins this jam-packed episode by speaking with Barbara Bradnon-Croft, Tara Nakashima and Micahel French about an exhibit they coordinated called, “STILL: Racism in America, ...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael French, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Tara Nakashima, Will Alpers, Richard Loranger, and Ton...
07/02/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Michael French, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Tara Nakashima, Will Alpers, Richard Loranger, and Toni Rizzo on air this Wednesday, February 7th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Michael G. French is an arts and theatre events marketing specialist for the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.

Barbara Brandon-Croft was the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist to cross the color line into the mainstream press in 1989 with her cartoon feature “Where I’m Coming From,” which appeared in The Detroit Free Press. In 1991 Universal Press Syndicate began distributing her comic strip in more than sixty mainstream newspapers internationally until 2005. Barbara continues to post new comics online today.

Tara Nakashima Donahue curated “STILL: Racism in America, a Retrospective in Cartoons.” She also curated the “From Panel to Panel” cartoon/comic art series for Medialia Gallery in NYC from 2008 to 2020. She has curated andconsulted for the Brumsic Brandon Jr. Art Trust since 2015, and is also Director of Blueprint, a Supported Education program in New York City.

Will Alpers recently self-published his book of poems and drawings, “The Demon is Curious About My $45 Lunch.” He was raised in Davis, California, and attended UC Davis and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He often wishes he studied something else. Before earning his degree, he was President of Aggies for Bernie Sanders, the UC Davis chapter of Students for Bernie, the student political organizing arm of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign; he also produced and hosted stand-up comedy shows in campus lecture halls as President of Davis Comedy Cycle, a Registered Student Organization at UC Davis. After earning his degree, he introduced himself to spiritual practices and began pursuing creative projects.

Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, educator, performer, musician, visual artist, and all-around squeaky wheel currently residing in Oakland, CA. Their recent book of poetry and flash prose, Mammal, was released by Roof Books in October 2023. They’ve penned five other books and ten chapbooks, and have writing in over 100 magazines and journals. The big news is that they’re about to start teaching workshops for the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. They previously taught college-level courses for nine years in the New York area, and are looking forward to diving back in.

Toni Rizzo is a painter and co-founder of Secret Spot, a local art and music lounge coming to Davis soon. Her signature style combines serene and psychedelic backgrounds with high realism portraiture. She is also a coordinator for the upcoming event Art Mania.

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on...
01/02/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode, featuring Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster can be accessed through the link below. Happy listening!

On the 1/31/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy is joined by the two featured readers of this week’s Poetry Night, Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster. Williamson first discusses how lockdown impacted his creative perspectiv...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster on air this Wednesday, January 31st! Dr. Andy's Poetry and ...
31/01/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster on air this Wednesday, January 31st! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Alan Williamson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, who teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and Franciscan Notes (Tupelo, 2019). He has also published a number of books of criticism, most recently Dante and the Night Journey (Anthem First Hill Books, 2023). He is the co-translator, with Jeanne Foster, of The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi (BOA, 2017).

A student of Robert Lowell’s and a favorite interpreter of 20th century American poetry, Professor Williamson was the director of Dr. Andy’s doctoral dissertation.

Jeanne Foster grew up in New Orleans. She is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California and former minister of the Modesto Unitarian Universalist church. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals: the most recent, Literary Matters 16.1. Others include Hudson Review, The Southern Review, APR, Narrative Magazine, Paris Review. Her first poetry book, A Blessing of Safe Travel, won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award. Among her other books are Goodbye, Silver Sister, poetry, Northwestern University Press: Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA), an anthology of poems by women; and a critical work, A Music of Grace: the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (Lang). She is co-translator of The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi (BOA), which won the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. Her latest book of poetry is Your Form Became My Own (Kelsay Books, 2023). A selection of her poems translated into Italian are scheduled to be published in 2024. Her passion is ballroom dancing and, in particular, ballroom dancing in Tuscany.

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on...
29/01/2024

Did you miss the most recent episode of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour? No worries! You can find past episodes on your favorite podcast platforms, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to Pandora. The most recent episode, featuring Josh Fernandez and Dave Self, can be accessed through the link below. Happy listening!

On the 1/24/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Dr. Andy is joined by Josh Fernandez, who kicks off the episode by mentioning the countless duties in the ongoing project of anti-fascism and his encounters with American neo-nazis am...

Dr. Andy will be joined by Josh Fernandez and David Self on air this Wednesday, January 24th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Tech...
23/01/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Josh Fernandez and David Self on air this Wednesday, January 24th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Dave Self is an Ecologist with 50 years of experience studying, protecting and restoring habitats. Recently retired, he now focuses on ways to renature culture and habitats on daily walks in north Davis. Finding surprising beauty, wonder and hope on these walks, he especially enjoys testing and sharing tasty recipes that start with habitat care and repair. You can enjoy his photography and occasional bits of poetry on Facebook and Instagram.

Josh Fernandez is an antiracist organizer, a father, a runner, a fighter, an English professor, and a writer whose stories have appeared in Spin, the Sacramento Bee, the Hard Times, and several alternative news weeklies. His book The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist comes out on PM Press on February 13th, 2024. He lives in Sacramento, CA.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Joe Wenderoth and Karen Holmberg on air this Wednesday,January 10th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Te...
10/01/2024

Dr. Andy will be joined by Joe Wenderoth and Karen Holmberg on air this Wednesday,January 10th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Joe Wenderoth is a writer, performer, musician, professor, and film-maker. He has published six books: four books of poetry, an epistolary novel, and a book of essays.. Joe Wenderoth has been teaching for the Department of English at UC Davis since 2003. This will be his last reading in Davis.

Wenderoth’s work is widely anthologized, and has been published in collections and periodicals such as Best American Poetry 2007, Best American Essays 2008, Poetry 180, The Next American Essay, The Best American Prose Poems: From Poe To Present, The Body Electric, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Harper’s, The Nation, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and American Poetry: Next Generation.

Joe Wenderoth has mentored a generation of UC Davis poets. He will be missed.

Karen Holmberg has published two poetry collections, The Perseids and Axis Mundi. In addition to poetry, she publishes lyric essays and art criticism, and her first young adult novel, The Collagist, won the 2021 Acheven Prize and will be published by Regal Press/Fitzroy Editions in the spring of 2024. She teaches British Literature, poetry writing, and letterpress printing at Oregon State University, where she is a faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Andrew Lazo, Jane Beal, and Alexandria Rockey on air this Wednesday, December 20th! Dr. Andy'...
20/12/2023

Dr. Andy will be joined by Andrew Lazo, Jane Beal, and Alexandria Rockey on air this Wednesday, December 20th! Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

The Rev. Andrew Lazo is an internationally-known speaker and writer specializing in C.S. Lewis and the Inklings. Andrew earned his BA (with Honors) from UC Davis Masters in Modern British Literature from Rice University where he was a Jacob K. Javits fellow in the Humanities. He is a frequent speaker around the U.S. and U.K. and has written several articles on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and co-host of Pints with Jack , a weekly podcast on the works of C. S. Lewis.
After finishing studies for an M. Div. (with Honors) at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA in May 2022, Andrew was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in January 2023 and serves as the Apprentice Rector at Church of the Messiah in Winter Garden, FL. He is also pursuing his doctorate in Romantic Theology at Northwind Seminary, where he serves as a Distinguished Lecturer. Andrew is married to author and speaker Dr. Christin Ditchfield Lazo.

Dr. Jane Beal is Professor of English Literature and recent past Chair of the English Department at the University of La Verne in southern California. She is also a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in English with specializations in medieval and early modern literature. She also received a Certificate in Midwifery from Mercy in Action College of Midwifery. She has taught at Wheaton College, Colorado Christian University, and the University of La Verne, as well as UC Davis, and served as a midwife in the U.S., Uganda, and the Philippines. During the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, she completed a graduate Certificate in Narrative Medicine and an MFA in Creative Writing at Bay Path University. She regularly publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her poetry collections include Sanctuary (2008), Rising (2015), and Song of the Selkie (2020) as well as seven haiku micro-chaps, Journey, Garden, Bliss, Wide Awake and Dreaming, In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Songs of Water, and Wilderness. She has created three audio recording projects combining poetry and music, “Songs from the Secret Life,” “Love-Song,” and “The Jazz Bird.” Her academic publications, including eight books and over forty peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, focus primarily on a medieval history of the world, the Polychronicon; a medieval dream vision poem called Pearl; and the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien. She enjoys music, birdwatching, and caring for her amazing foster kids. At all times, she loves to help her students learn, grow, and succeed!

Alex Rockey is a professor in Academic Technology at Bakersfield College. She has a PhD in Education from UC Davis. With more than 10 years of experience as an educator in K-16 contexts, she has expertise in teaching and researching mobile design, online education, and emerging technologies. Alex is passionate about the potential of online education and mobile-friendly course design to transform access to higher education.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Bill Mohr, Rhony Bhopia, and Faustin Rusanganwa on air this Wednesday, November 14th.  Dr. An...
14/11/2023

Dr. Andy will be joined by Bill Mohr, Rhony Bhopia, and Faustin Rusanganwa on air this Wednesday, November 14th. Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Bill Mohr and Rhony Bhopia at 7 PM on Thursday, November 15th, 2023, on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.

Dr. Andy will be joined by Claire E. Jones, Terran Ryan Fielder, Colin Minigan, and Michael French on air this Wednesday...
07/11/2023

Dr. Andy will be joined by Claire E. Jones, Terran Ryan Fielder, Colin Minigan, and Michael French on air this Wednesday, November 8th. Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour can be heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.

The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday beginning at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com

Additionally, the public is invited to a special edition of the Poetry Night Reading Series celebrating young teens from DaVinci Middle School on Thursday, November 9th, 2023, on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.

Dr. Andy will be joined by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Professor Narine Yegiyan on air this Wednesday, Nove...
31/10/2023

Dr. Andy will be joined by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Professor Narine Yegiyan on air this Wednesday, November 1st. A recorded performance by Rachel Geier will also be broadcasted during the hour. The Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour is heard on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis on Wednesdays at 5pm, and everywhere else at www.kdvs.org.
The show can also be streamed as a podcast the following Thursday starting at 8am using the link: https://poetrytechnology.buzzsprout.com
Additionally, the Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick at 7 PM on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023, on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis. Opening for Lee Herrick will be flutist Dr. Rachel Taylor Geier. She will perform the Paganini Caprice No. 24, arranged for solo flute by Jasmine Choi.

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