Andy Jones Content

Dr. Andy’s Poetry Supports the Outgrowers

Cody Kitaura — January 28, 2020 - 9:50am

The student plods diagonally across the quad,
and soon stomps the water from her boots in front of the library
where she beholds the phalanxes of parked bicycles.
She sees bicycles, but imagines lattices, covalent bonds, or suspension bridges.
She is making comparisons, making references.
In her head, she imagines growing her own buildings,
or growing trees as tall as our cork oaks, stretching into the sky.

Speaking Poet Laureate and Speaking of Poet Laureates

Karen Michele Nikos — April 17, 2018 - 3:28pm

Davis Poet Laureate and 51�ԹϺ�� Davis writing lecturer Andy Jones is speaking at an upcoming event at the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis library. And, the city of Davis is looking for a new poet laureate...nominations are being taken now.

Chancellor May: ‘Intolerance Will Not Win’

Dave Jones — August 22, 2017 - 10:25am

At a Central Park rally and in a letter to the campus community last week, Chancellor Gary S. May drew a sharp distinction between freedom of speech and what he saw in the recent tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia: provocation to violence.

May joined Mayor Robb Davis, Democratic Rep. John Garamendi, Rabbi Greg Wolfe and others at the Aug. 16 Unity Rally, organized by the Davis Phoenix Coalition to condemn neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other “alt-right” factions for the hate they spewed in Charlottesville the weekend before.