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Night School
by Georgia Jones-Davis
$14.49, paper
Georgia Jones-Davis’s first collection of poems, Blue Poodle (Finishing Line Press), was published in 2011. She grew up in Northern New Mexico and Southern California.
It was as a student studying English at UCLA that Georgia first wrote and published poetry. She set poetry aside when she went into the news business for more than twenty years. Georgia worked as a literary reporter, sub-editor, book review editor and book reviewer. She was one of the founding editors of the Herald Examiner Book Review and an Assistant Book Editor at the Los Angeles Times Book Review for 14 years. Her critical essays have appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, New York Newsday, The Chicago Tribune and Salon.
After leaving the newspaper world, “Poetry,” Georgia says, “came back to me like a long, lost, muddy dog.” Her work has appeared in various publications including West Wind, The Bicycle Review, California Quarterly, Sam Hamill’s website, Poets Against War, Brevities, Nebo and South Bank Poetry, London. New poetry appears this fall in Ascent Aspirations, a Canadian Journal, and Eclipse.
Her interview profiles of poets, including Mary Ruefle (pronounced Roofle) and Stanley Plumly, will be appearing in Poets Quarterly starting this winter. Georgia was honored as one of the Newer Poets 2010 by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival/Beyond Baroque and the Los Angeles County ALOUD Series. She is a former board member of Valley Contemporary Poets, a Los Angeles non-profit, and founder of the Poetry Group at the Grancell Village Jewish Home for the Aging. Georgia Jones-Davis is a member of PEN, California State Poetry Society and the Academy of American Poets.
She is the mother of one daughter, Emily, and lives in Tarzana, California, with her husband and two dogs, Rooby and Lili.
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