Third Tuesday Poetry Night: Featuring Stan Zumbiel and Susan Kelly-DeWitt

Third Tuesday Poetry Night Tuesday, April 21 at 6:00 pm
Featuring Stan Zumbiel and Susan Kelly-DeWitt

A book release celebration for Stan Zumbiel’s latest collection – New and Expanded Standing Watch

Twin Lotus Thai Restaurant – 8345 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento

Hosted by Bob Stanley

Reading starts at 6:00 pm, followed by an open mic.

Reservations and pre-ordering are strongly requested – Please go to twinlotusthai.com to reserve your table and place your food order.

Note that the Third Tuesday Poetry link is listed below all the Music Events and just below “Two Tune Thursdays”.

=== Featured Poets ===

**Stan Zumbiel** started writing poems while he was in the Navy. A beloved English teacher for 35 years, Stan taught until his retirement in 2008. Stan served on SPC’s board of directors for more than two decades, and he earned his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His books include Standing Watch (Random Lane Press, 2016) and Hat Full of Leaves (Cold River Press, 2021). A new, updated, and expanded edition of Standing Watch is now available from Random Lane. Stan and his wife, Lynn, have four children and nine grandkids.

**Susan Kelly-DeWitt** is the author of the full-length poetry collections Gatherer’s Alphabet (CA Poets Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2022), Gravitational Tug (2020), Spider Season (2016), and The Fortunate Islands (2008), as well as numerous chapbooks. Her honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and the Chicago Literary Award from Another Chicago Magazine. Her work has been included in several anthologies, including The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2011). She lives in Sacramento with her husband, David.