Friends of the Sacramento Poetry Center

Friends of SPC Meeting, 6-7 p.m., Thursday, May 3, at SPC, 25th & R

Please join us for our monthly meeting for anyone who wants to get involved in SPC activities. We are looking for volunteers for everything from publicity to writing articles to helping host events. Please come and share your ideas for activities and let us know your talents/expertise. If you can’t make it to this meeting, let us know what days/times would work better for you (email spc@jps.net). Below is a partial list of possible volunteer activities. Please send us your thoughts and ideas and come down on Thursday nite if you can.

Some of the things we need help with are: advertising events, contests and publications; writing articles, interviews and essays for our website and Poetry Now; mailing/distribution of Tule Review/Poetry Now; taking photos and creating artwork for our website and publications; bookkeeping; helping with events–PR, setup, hosting, entertaining out-of-town guests, bringing refreshments; organizing our space/files/materials/poetry library/archives; building maintenance–we are currently looking for someone to fix/cover our ceiling; judging of contests and publications; creating flyers/posters/broadsides for our events; outreach to K-12; help with our poets in the prisons project; soliciting new members; hosting SPC info tables at events; monthly art shows–recruiting new artists, hanging and taking down artwork, PR; assisting with special events such as our yearly poetry conference in April, grant writing and what else (your ideas here).