September 15 Guests

CATI PORTER
Cati Porter is the author of Seven Floors Up and the chapbooks small fruit songs: prose poems, (al)most delicious, an ekphrastic series after Modigliani’s nudes and just released by Dancing Girl Press, and what Desire makes of us, a series written during NaPoWriMo 2009, forthcoming from Ahadada books as an e-book with illustrations by her sister, Amy Joy Payne. Her current project is a manuscript-in-progress titled My Skies of Small Horses, which was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press. Poems from that collection can be found in recent issues of Crab Creek Review, Wicked Alice, and  No Tell Motel. Her poems have been anthologized in Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, Letters to the World: Poems from the Women’s Poetry Listserv, and White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood, and appear sporadically online and occasionally in print.  In 2005 she founded the online literary magazine, Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, and just recently founded Inlandia: A Literary Journey, in partnership with the Inlandia Institute. Cati Porter received her MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles in 2010.

GIA BATISTA
This summer, Gia and a group of friends, including Davis students and alumni, started a small theater company called the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble. Gia will play Juliet in their first production, Romeo and Juliet.