The Sacramento Poetry Center

SPC Online poetry events – Week of May 3- 9, 2020

May 3, 2020

SPC Online poetry events – Week of May 3- 9, 2020 Mon., May 4: 10:00 am Writers on the Air, led by Todd Boyd RSVP in advance via email to writersontheair.message@gmail.com Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/358106078?pwd=YzdvelcxOW1CNWg2YnBuc05ZYUJaQT09 (Meeting ID: 358 106 078/Password: 025674) Mon., May 4: 7:15 pm SPC Monday night poetry readings, hosted by CharRon https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7638733462 Meeting […]

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Big Day of Giving

April 30, 2020

During Big Day of Giving, our region will rally around the nonprofits that make the capital area our home—and that can use our support, now more than ever. On Thursday, May 7, visithttps://www.bigdayofgiving.org/sacpoetrycenter and support our efforts to bring more poetry and workshops to you during a time when connection is needed. We will be exploring […]

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SPC Online poetry events – Week of April 27-May 1, 2020

April 29, 2020

Mon., Apr. 27 @10:00 am Writers on the Air, led by Todd Boyd RSVP in advance via email to writersontheair.message@gmail.com Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/358106078?pwd=YzdvelcxOW1CNWg2YnBuc05ZYUJaQT09 (Meeting ID: 358 106 078/Password: 025674) Mon., Apr 27 @7:15 pm SPC Monday night poetry readings, “Poetry from Maine to California: a salon-style poetry reading, hosted by Len Germinara https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7638733462 Meeting ID: […]

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FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA

April 26, 2020

FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA: Michael R. Brown, Valerie Lawson, Richard Cambridge, Victoria Bosch Murray, Michael McDonough https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7638733462 Meeting ID: 763 873 3462 (“P O E T R E E I N C”)/ Password: spcsdv2020Michael R. BrownMichael R. Brown was born in Philadelphia, raised in Lancaster County, went to college in Scranton, and began teaching at William […]

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SPC Online poetry events – Week of April 20-25 2020

April 19, 2020

Mon., Apr. 20 @10:00 am Writers on the Air, led by Todd Boyd RSVP in advance via email to writersontheair.message@gmail.com Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/358106078?pwd=YzdvelcxOW1CNWg2YnBuc05ZYUJaQT09 (Meeting ID: 358 106 078/Password: 025674) Mon., Apr 20 @7:15 pm SPC Monday night poetry reading, “Bob Stanley, “With all this solitude: old poems & new poems,” hosted by Lynn Belzer. Bob […]

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SPC Online poetry events – Week of April 13, 2020

April 12, 2020

SPC Online poetry events – Week of April 13, 2020 Mon. Apr. 13 10:00 AM Writers on the Air, led by Todd Boyd Please RSVP in advance via email to writersontheair.message@gmail.com Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/358106078?pwd=YzdvelcxOW1CNWg2YnBuc05ZYUJaQT09 Meeting ID: 358 106 078 Password: 025674 Mon. Apr 13 7:15 PM SPC Monday night poetry reading “Socially Distant Verse” on […]

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Cancellation of All SPC Events until Further Notice

March 13, 2020

Dear SPC Community, As of March 17, 2020, Sacramento County has issued an updated directive to county residents regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Among other restrictions, the new Sacramento County directive says there should be no gatherings of any size, and urges seniors 65 or older and those with chronic health conditions to stay home and […]

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Anara Guard and Gay Guard-Chamberlin || Monday, March 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM || SPC, 1719 25th Street

March 4, 2020

Anara Guard has studied writing at the Urban Gateways Young Writers Workshop of Chicago, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts , Columbia College Story Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She graduated from Kenyon College and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her short story […]

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Lucy Corin || Monday Feb. 24 at 7:30 PM || 1719 25th Street

February 19, 2020

Recipient of a Wallace Stegner and NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two collections of poetry, Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books, 2007) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press, 2012; 2nd edition by Doubleback Books, 2020). In 2015 his short story “Taylor Swift” won the Barthelme Prize for short fiction, and his […]

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