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Asheville poet Jeff Davis to read at City Lights
A new volume of poetry just released by a Jackson County publisher will be the subject of a public program offered at Sylva’s City Lights Bookstore this weekend. The book is a collaboration between a poet and artist, and both will be on hand for the event.
The store will host a reading and book-signing with writer Jeff Davis and painter Joyce Blunk at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 9.
Asheville poet Jeff Davis will read from his new book, “Natures,” this Friday at City Lights. Davis’ book was published by Tuckasegee’s Thomas Crowe’s New Native Press.
A longtime resident of Asheville, Davis will be celebrating the publication of his selected poems, “Natures,” which is being published by Thomas Crowe’s New Native Press in Cullowhee. As part of a creative collaborative effort between poet and painter, Blunk’s work appears on the covers and in the text of Davis’ book.
 Area residents perhaps know Davis from his articles as a features writer for Rapid River and for his role as one of the hosts for the WPVM radio show “Word Play.” He studied with Fred Chappell and Robert Creeley, and has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville as an associate professor of anthropology. He has worked as a baker and photographer, and founded a computer programming and trouble-shooting business.
The poems in “Natures” were written over the course of a career, said City Lights publicist Jessica Philyaw, who described them as love poems to and of nature, and to and of flesh.
Davis’ poems are about “the many natures of what we as humans are, as well as what we strive for, wish for and dream of,” according to Philyaw.
Davis’ poems in this collection are place-specific to the Western North Carolina mountains and their fauna, flora, cultures and seasons.
Blunk brings a reputation as an internationally-shown and recognized artist to the collaboration. Her intricate box collages using objects found in nature have graced the space of art galleries in France, Germany, Ireland, Asia, Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Friday night’s event will include a reading by Davis as well a talk by artist Blunk.
For more information, call City Lights at 586-9499.
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