Literary Lectures, 2012

Enhance your knowledge and understanding of poetry by attending SPC’s first ever offering of Literary Lectures, featuring talks given by prominent writers and educators from the Sacramento community.  The series begins on February 16, 2012 and continues through April 5, 2012.

Purchase the entire series for only $99 (10% off for Sacramento Poetry Center members).  Or, buy a Mix and Match four-pack for $65 (any four lectures you wish).   Can’t commit to more than one?  You can still sign up at $20 per lecture.

Tickets make fine gifts! Proceeds benefit the Sacramento Poetry Center. Contact Tim Kahl, 916.714.5401 for more information.

Here’s the entire series:

Feb. 16  Joshua McKinney — “Bolo and Bullshit: The Other T.S. Eliot”

Feb. 23 V.S. Chochezi — “Poetry Collaborations: Sacramento and  Beyond” [Gary Snyder and Tom Killion, Electropoetic Coffee (NSAA and Ross Hammond), Poetry Machine (Mario Ellis Hill and friends, Fo’Shange, Straight Out Scribes) and much more

March 1 Molly Fisk — “Women Poets: Friendship, Critique & Support”

March 8  Emmanuel Sigauke — “Contemporary World Poetry through International Poetry Web”

March 15 Bob Stanley and John Allen Cann — “The Blab of the Pave: Rhythm, Texture, Silence and Other Elements of Post-rhyming Poetry”

March 22 Judy Halebsky — “Japanese Literary Traditions in West Coast Poetics”

March 29 James DenBoer — “Kenneth Rexroth: The World Outside the Window”

April 5  Tim Kahl — “Surrealism and its Academic Discontents”