Sandra McPherson at SPC on Dec. 10, 2007

January 3, 2008

Sandra McPherson came once again to the Sacramento Poetry Center to lend her specific brand of light to the proceedings at 1719 25th Street in Sacramento. She mentioned that she had dedicated her latest book entitledExpectation Days to three women, two of whom were in the audience: Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Pamela Moore Schneider. The first […]

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Quinton Duval and Lisa Dominguez Abraham—November 12, 2007

December 14, 2007

Quinton Duval and Lisa Dominguez Abraham appeared before a packed crowd at the Sacramento Poetry Center that saw several attendees pulling their camping chairs, still there from the previous weekend’s soccer game, out of their trunks in order to get a seat. Quinton Duval mentioned that he was currently a member of a writing group […]

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December 12 | Peace Vigil

December 8, 2007
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Eleni Sikelianos at California State University, Sacramento

December 6, 2007

  Eleni Sikelianos appeared at the the library gallery on the CSUS campus on a wet and rainy December night. She flew into Oakland and arrived at CSUS despite an uncooperative car that nearly found itself on a ventilator near Vacaville. However, the car demonstrated resolve and sputtered across the Yolo Causeway into Sacramento. After […]

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Sacramento Literary Calendar [December 2007]

December 4, 2007

01 saturday All are invited to Escritores del Nuevo Sol’s writing workshop and potluck. 11am. at event will be held at home of JoAnn Anglin. For directions, call: 916-451-1372 . For info call Graciela Ramirez, 456-5323 or joannpen@comcast.net. www.escritoresdelnuevosol.com 03 Monday Sacramento Poetry Center presents Alfred Arteaga and Lorna dee cervantes at The Space, across […]

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Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alfred Arteaga [December 4, 2007]

December 4, 2007

The crowd was waiting, waiting. We were waiting not so much for Godot as for Cervantes. Lorna Dee had taken the Amtrak into Sacramento from the Bay Area and was looking for a way to get from the train station to 1719 25th Street. She came into The SPACE while the end of the open […]

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Zaid Shlah at Sacramento City College November 29, 2007

December 1, 2007

  Zaid Shlah came to visit the Sacramento City College and talked about his love of Arabic culture, poetry in particular. He read several pieces from his book entitled Taqsim [Frontenac, 2006]. Taqsim are short improvisational pieces played on an oud, and the pieces that Shlah read had a feel of meditations by route of […]

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Sacramento Literary Events [November]

November 6, 2007

2 Friday The Other Voice, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis presents Susan Kelly- DeWitt. Betty Vlack will be giving a presentation on our new Poet Laureate, Donald Hall. The reading is at 7:30 in the library of the church located at 27074 Patwin Road. 3 Saturday All are invited to Escritores del […]

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Francisco Reinking and Phoebe Wayne—October 22, 2007

October 23, 2007

Francisco Reinking and Phoebe Wayne collaborated to provide an evening that was both fun and cerebral, marked by a special high—the moment when those chocolate covered ginger slices from Trader Joe’s were rolled out. For me, the whole evening was an exercise in staving off the dilemma of whether to have the chocolate covered ginger […]

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November 16 | Proust as Prompt | Weekend Writing Intensive

October 17, 2007

Weekend goal: To bring participants into the literary world (Proust’s world) of time, symbol, dream, memory and personal myth — an author-guided tour to your own best and most authentic writing. Lawrence Spann will facilitate a weekend writing intensive sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center’s Outreach Research and Education Program as part of its […]

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