Evan White, Joe Mills, and Oliver Jones

On the 4/19/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

It’s fundraiser week at KDVS! Between reminders of how to donate and the sweet swag you can get for pledging, Dr. Andy and guest co-host Evan White talk French movie trivia, sports, artificial intelligence, Olive Garden, and more. Early in the hour, UC Davis professor Joe Mills phones in to share a poem. Film critic Oliver Jones joins later with thoughts on radio and film appreciation. It’s an hour of bell-ringing, chit-chatting, and celebration.

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Evan White is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, where he earned a degree in English and Creative Writing. While a student, he published and co-edited an anthology of short fiction and poetry entitled All the Vegetarians in Texas Have Been Shot. His work has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Popshot and elsewhere. He is a past director of the local literary performance series Stories on Stage Davis and serves as the designer and art director of Under the Gum Tree, a magazine of creative non-fiction and visual art based in Sacramento. He is currently the director of communication for the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences.  

A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and was honored with a 2017 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. His work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published seven volumes of poetry with Press 53: Bodies in Motion; Exit, pursued by a bear; This Miraculous Turning, Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet; Love and Other Collisions; Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, and Somewhere During the Spin Cycle.

Oliver Jones has spent the past 20 plus years writing about culture, social justice and breaking news for top magazines and websites. As a staff writer for People magazine for a decade, he wrote about some of the defining social issues of our time, including gays and lesbians in the highest ranks of the military, LGBTQ life in the American heartland, and the crisis of African-American violence in L.A. Originally trained as a culture journalist (he’s covered over a dozen Oscar shows), he is equally adept in the world of social justice, covering topics like the failed drug war, the fight for fifteen, and America's education crisis for the Daily Beast, Yahoo!, and others. He is also a film and music critic and writes extensively about art institutions, including the Getty and The Museum of Jurassic Technology. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a journalism professor at Emerson College, where he teaches social justice and entertainment journalism.

Julia Levine and Susan Cohen will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on Thursday, April 20th, 2023.

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