Janée J. Baugher & Alice Jones

Name: Janée J. Baugher & Alice Jones
Start: 2026-06-07T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center

Schedule

Sun, 07 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-07:00

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Art House Gallery & Cultural Center | Berkeley, CA

JANÉE J. BAUGHER'S new book is "The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles," winner of Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize. The judge, Shane McCrae says, “The first two poems…so excited me that I had to stop reading, stand up and leave the room, and cross a few items off my daily list of things to do before I could return to the manuscript—I knew I wouldn’t be able to judge the manuscript fairly if I just rode that initial buzz to the end....The notes brilliantly stitch the act of composition to the page while also holding the poems open—the best lyric poems, after all, are finally irresolvable; they cannot be finished, closed. Via the notes, one sees through the paintings to which they refer, and imagines oneself in the position of Andrew Wyeth himself, a step away from the painting he has just made, or is making, so that one traces the poet’s ekphrastic experience from behind the painting, as it were, rather than in front of it. What a strange, impossible effect! But in The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles it is achieved again and again....” Janée Baugher’s previous poetry books are The Body’s Physics and Coördinates of Yes. She is also the author of The Ephrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. She lives in Seattle, where she received a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant.
ALICE JONES is a poet, physician, psychoanalyst, and swimmer. Her new hybrid memoir is "Cadence of Vanishing." Bin Ramke says of it, "As it happens I began reading this memoir on Veterans Day, on the official Monday holiday that now obscures the memories themselves—painful events replaced by sales and ceremonies. What Alice Jones has to offer through this work is a searing, searching memorializing, informed by professional medical competence and further formed by her poet's ear and eye and nerve. This entire document is a faceted poem consisting of physical and emotional events adding up to a life lived fully consciously, fully aware of oblivion awaiting us but a living determination to hold onto the knowledge and even wisdom also lying in wait." Alice Jones is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Knot, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award; Isthmus, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award; Gorgeous Mourning; Plunge, finalist for the Northern California Book Award; and most recently Vault. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Poetry, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and honors from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America.