The Sacramento Poetry Center

On April 28 William O’ Daly came into Sacramento heading down I-80 from Auburn to talk about the work of his life-long mentor-in-translation, love poet and political poet, Pablo Neruda. He quickly began his thousand weavings between the books of poems he has translated late in Neruda’s career. They were books that Neruda scrambled to […]

John Amen and Brad Henderson teamed up to give the Sacramento faithful an evening of spurs, blues and songs from the Jersey shore. Brad started the evening by introducing the audience to his new movement of neo-cowboyism, a school that considers the balance between the city and the country. Brad talked about his grandfather’s cattle […]

http://www.larazagaleriaposada.org/ Arturo Mantecon read last night – with a wonderful poem about his father reading him to sleep at night with a surreal story. It’s a must-read and even better heard by the Spanish speaking storyteller-poet. James DenBoer also read heart-wrenching poems written about the time of his wife’s death, a little more than a […]