Davis Poetry Night reading back on the roof of Natsoulas Gallery

Enterprise staff

The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Lois P. Jones and William O’Daly at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 18, on the roof of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis.

Jones is a finalist for the Alpine Fellowship award in poetry. She has won the Bristol Poetry Prize, the Lascaux Poetry Prize for a single poem, the Tiferet Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2018 Terrain Poetry contest judged by Jane Hirshfield. Jones’ work appears or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets – Poem A Day, Poetry Wales, Mslexia, Plume, Guernica Editions, Vallentine Mitchell of London; Verse Daily, Tupelo Quarterly, Narrative and others.

Jones’s first collection, “Night

Ladder,” was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2017 and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Lascaux Poetry Prize for a poetry collection. She is a screening judge for Claremont University’s Kingsley-Tufts Awards.

Since 2007, Jones has hosted KPFK’s Poets Café, co-produced the Moonday Poetry Series, is a contributor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and acted as poetry editor for Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal.

O’Daly studied poetry at UC Santa Barbara with Kenneth Rexroth, Hugh Kenner, and many others, and with his friend and

Solo crash leads to DUI arrest

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff

An early-morning crash Sunday resulted in a woman’s arrest on drunkendriving charges, according to police.

Lt. Dan Beckwith said officers responded at 3 a.m to the solo crash in the 3800 block of Chiles Road, arriving to find a Hyundai Sonata in a narrow construction-zone ditch. mentor Sam Hamill, he served as assistant editor of Spectrum magazine. In 1972, he co-founded Copper Canyon Press with Hamill, Tree Swenson, and Jim Gautney.

“The vehicle had been traveling westbound on Chiles and appeared to have drifted into the ditch,” Beckwith said. “The driver was put through a series of field sobriety tests and was ultimately arrested for DUI."

Lisa Marie Armas, 37, of Davis, was booked into the Yolo County Jail.

O’Daly’s published works include eight books of translation of the late-career and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda and Neruda’s first volume, “Book of Twilight” — all published by Copper Canyon Press. “Book of Twilight” was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Translation of Poetry for 2018.

Books of O’Daly’s own poems include “The New Gods” (Beltway Editions), “The Whale in the Web“ (Copper Canyon), as well as “Yarrow and Smoke, Water Ways” (a collaboration with JS Graustein), and “The Road to Isla Negra,” the latter three published by Folded Word Press.

A National Endowment for the

Arts Fellow and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he received the American Literary Award from the bilingual Korean American journal Miju Poetry and Poetics in September 2021. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published in numerous journals and multimedia exhibits.

An open mic will follow the featured performers. Open mic performances will be limited to three minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. The open mic list typically fills by 6:50 p.m. The Facebook event page is at https://www. facebook.com/events/132463624 4750774.

Police investigate hit-and-run report

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

An alleged hit-and-run collision Friday left a teenage boy shaken but unhurt, Davis police said.

Lt. Dan Beckwith reported that the 13-year-old was riding his bike along Second Street at about 4 p.m. when a gray four-door sedan exiting the Alhambra at Mace Ranch apartments, 4500

Alhambra Drive, clipped his rear tire, and causing the boy to fall to the ground.

The driver did not stop at the scene, Beckwith said. He described the driver as a dark-complected male in his late 30s with short black hair, with a female passenger who wore a head covering.

Anyone who witnessed this incident or has any other information is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.