Katy Lederer and Rebecca Morrison at SPC on Friday October 24, 2008

October 21, 2008

Katy Lederer and Rebecca Morrison Special Date — Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 — Special Date Host: Tim Kahl 1719 25th Street at HQ for the Arts Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included […]

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November Calendar of Literary Events

October 19, 2008

Sacramento Area Literary Events; November, 2008 Mon, 11/3 [Camille Norton hosts]: Jan Beatty @spc, 7:30 pm Tues, 11/4, 7:30 pm and every Tuesday: SPC Poets’ Workshop @ the Hart Cntr, 27th/J sts. Danyen@ 530-756-6228 FREE bring 15 copies of your one page poem to be read/critiqued. Tuesday, 11/4 and Every Tuesday 7 p.m. – “Life […]

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Dan Bellm, Terry Ehret, and Gillian Wegener

October 16, 2008

Dan Bellm’s third book of poetry, Practice, came out from Sixteen Rivers Press in March 2008. His first, One Hand on the Wheel, launched the California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press; his second, Buried Treasure, won the Poetry Society of America’s DiCastagnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. His work has appeared […]

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Mahmoud Darwish Memorial Reading —October 5th, 2008

October 10, 2008

In association with the worldwide effort organized by theInternationales Literaturfestival Berlin, a devoted crowd turned up at the Sacramento Poetry Center to celebrate the life and work of internationally-recognized Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Shining brightly on the wall via an LCD projector was this handbill designed by Richard Hansen who unfortunately could not attend the […]

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Susan Kelly-DeWitt at SPC October 6th, 2008

October 8, 2008

Home-town favorite Susan Kelly-DeWitt read before a packed SRO house at the Sacramento Poetry Center. the reading was a long overdue “launch” reading for her book The Fortunate Islands. She started the reading with Czeslaw Milosz’s “In Music.” She then read from her own body of work: “Inventing Anna,” “Middle Mountains,” “Credo,” “Corporal Blood,” “The […]

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Halloween Poetry Bash

October 7, 2008

Sacramento Poetry Center Workshop Halloween Poetry Bash with Joe Wenderoth and other funky poets A Party and Poetry Reading Hosted by Frank Graham and the Sacramento Poetry Center Friday — October 31, 2008: 7pm – 9pm, Acceptable for Most Children and the Weak of Heart — After 9pm, this Reading Continues Until Hell Visits this […]

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October Calendar of Events

October 3, 2008

Wed, 10/1, 8pm Mahogany Poetry Series, and every Wed night at Queen Sheba restaurant @ 1704 Broadway, with Khiry Malik M., Slam, open. Wed, 10/1, Th e Bistro, 3rd and F Streets in Davis, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. Free. 530.756.4556 aojones@ucdavis.edu http://www.bistro33. com/bistro33_davis for schedule Thurs, 10/2 and every Th urs 8pm, Open Mike and […]

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Susan Kelly-DeWitt

October 3, 2008

Susan Kelly-DeWitt A reading for The Fortunate Islands Monday Oct. 6, 2008 at 7:30 PM Host: Tim Kahl Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of a full-length collection, THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS (Marick Press) and five previous chapbooks: A CAMELLIA FOR JUDY (Frith Press, 1998), FEATHER’S HAND (Swan Scythe Press, 2000), TO A SMALL MOTH (Poet’s Corner […]

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Mary Rosenberry Rocks the SPC as part of One Less Straightjacket

October 2, 2008
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Robert Grossklaus and Litany—Sept. 22, 2008

September 23, 2008

The Sacramento Poetry Center forged music and words together in its word foundry on Mon. Sept. 22. The principal smithies were Robert Grossklaus who started off the evening by reading Prairie Creek Poetry across the sky, rippling softly over cement, words meandering their way east wind. Afternoons melt into hot breath, slight, like the movement […]

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