2020 Sacramento Poetry Center Conference

February 13, 2020

Sacramento Poetry Center Spring Conference April 4, 2020 Show Your Appreciation for Our Amazing Conference Faculty and Local Authors by… Buying Books! Book Table Open 9:30-5:00 @ California Stage Faculty & Featured Local Authors Will Sign Books at Their Respective Afternoon Readings 9:00 to 10:00 Registration; Coffee and Pastries ~ SPC Main Room 9:30 to […]

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Past Sacramento Poetry Center Conferences

February 10, 2020

2019 SPC 40th Anniversary Spring Conference  Saturday, April 6, 9:30 am – 5 pm Our annual conference is a full day of workshops and readings with guests, local poets, and a chance to form connections with writers in the community. Lunch is provided as well as lite fair and coffee to start.  **All Of Our […]

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Matthew Chronister and Emiliann Ferguson ||| Mon. Feb. 10 at 7:30 PM ||| Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th Street

February 8, 2020

Matthew Chronister is from Sacramento, CA where he works with local youth and writes poetry. He earned a Master’s degree in English at California State University, Sacramento, where he also teaches First Year Composition. His work has appeared in Poetry Now, Suisun Valley Review and 8-West Press. His first collection of poems, Memory Care, is available from Finishing Line Press. Emiliann Ferguson has […]

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Jeanine Stevens, Kimberly White, and JoAnn Anglin || Friday, Feb. 7 at 6:00 PM || Host: Bob Stanley

February 4, 2020

Jeanine Stevens is the author of Limberlost, and Inheritor (Future Cycle Press), and Sailing on Milkweed, (Cherry Grove Collections). Winner of the MacGuffin Poet Hunt (selected by Phil Levine), The Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference Award (selected by Dorianne Laux), WOMR Cape Cod Community Radio National Poetry Award (selected by Marge Piercy). and The Ekphrasis Prize.  […]

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Len Germinara and Nena Larieze || Mon. Feb. 3 at 7:30 PM || Host: CharRon Smith

January 29, 2020

Len Germinara is author of 7collections of poetry. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He was the 2003 winner of the Cambridge Poetry Award for best narrative poem. His collection of poems “Back Story” is available from Amazon Books. He is a founding member of Spoken Word Nantucket and the Moors Poetry Collective. […]

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Camille Norton and Barbara Swift Brauer || Mon. Jan. 27, 2020 || 7:30 PM

January 22, 2020

Camile Norton is a professor of English at Pacific University in Stockton. Her first book of poems,  Corruption, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner, published by Harper Perennial in 2005. Her work has appeared in Field, The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, and in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. Her poem, “The Prison Diary of Bartlett Yancey […]

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A Special Reading: Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day || Monday, January 20, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street ||Host Penny Kline || Free Event & Parking || Refreshments || Open Mic

January 19, 2020
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Paco Marquez and Stacy Gee ||| Monday, January 13, 2020 at 7:30 PM

January 10, 2020

Paco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press, 2017). He has poems forthcoming in Fence, and previously published in Apogee, Ostrich Review, Live Mag! and Huizache. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book, Crepuscualrio, for the first time into English as, Book of Twilight, (Copper Canyon Press, […]

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Jorge Quintana and Auntie Vice ||| Monday Jan. 6 at 7:30 PM ||| Host: CharRon Smith

January 4, 2020

Jorge Quintana is an undocumented poet and actor from Sacramento, California. A recent graduate from Sacramento State, his poetry has been featured in Quarterly West Magazine. Working under the mode of psychedelic surrealism, Jorge deconstructs his love, masculinity, ethnicity, and spirituality. His goal for his work is to create pieces that teach readers and audience […]

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Kristin George Bagdanov and Michael Mlekoday || Monday, December 16, 7:30 pm || Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street || Hosted by Penny Kline || Free Event & Parking … Refreshments … Open Mic

December 11, 2019

Come on out and hear these Fabulous Poets read their poems! Kristin George Bagdanov earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at U.C. Davis. Her poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto Del Sol, and other journals. Her poetry collection, Fossils in […]

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