Sacramento Literary Calendar for April 2007

March 28, 2007

1 Sunday PoemSpirits featuring guest reader Tim Bellows, Sierra College professor. Co-host JoAnn Anglin will also offer a brief presentation on renowned poet Jane Hirshfield.Free. Open mic, light refreshments provided. Bring a favorite poem to share, yours or another’s. UUSS, 2425 Sierra Blvd. www.uuss.org. Info: Tom Goff or Nora Staklis: 481-3312, or JoAnn Anglin: 451-1372. […]

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Sacramento Poetry Center’s Writer’s Conference

March 28, 2007

April 20 FRIDAY NIGHT READING AND RECEPTION 7-9PM Free! Hors d’oeuvres and drinks 7 – 7:30 pm Reading 7:30 – 9:00pm Heather Hutcheson, Andy Jones, Danny Romero, Brad Henderson, Gail Entrekin April 21 SATURDAY WORKSHOPS 9AM TO 4PM 8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and muffins 9:00 – 9:45 Panel discussion: Andy Jones, Camille Norton, Gail Entrekin, […]

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Gerald Haslam at Sacramento City College

March 28, 2007

  Gerald Haslam appeared at the Little Theatre Stage at Sacramento City College wearing a striped shirt and a gray fleece vest with a “volunteer” patch for the National Parks Service on it. It was kind of like Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie meets a Cabela’s catalog. True to form, Mr. Haslam’s salt-of-the-earth persona shown through […]

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Ricardo Sternberg and Stephen Yenser

March 20, 2007

Ricardo Sternberg and Stephen Yenser read at the Sacramento Poetry Center, coming together with SPC host Bob Stanley, after a long hiatus of 32 years since Sternberg and Stanley were students in Yenser’s creative writing class in 1975. Bob Stanley even had some dittos that he had kept from that class and dittos of one […]

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Indigo Moor Book Release Party

March 7, 2007

The incomparable Indigo Moor brings his smooth callouses to The Space at 25th and R (part of the HQ for the Arts complex) Monday March 12 (7pm) Book Release Party and Reading for Indigo Moor’s Tap-Root Main Street Rag Editor’s Select Reading Series Also, Special Guest Reader: Jennifer Sweeney. Author of “Salt Memory” – 2006 […]

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Kate Northrop and Julia Levine—February 26th

February 27, 2007

Julia Levine and Kate Northrop played poetry tag in front of a healthy group of intrepid souls who braved the elements to attend their reading. The two had been planning on reading poems they selected for the other to hear/read. They each did two sets. The first set was initiated with poems written by poets […]

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Steve Williams and Brad Buchanan @ The Book Collector

February 24, 2007

Steve Williams will be reading from his new rattlechap entitled “Skin Stretched Around the Hollow” on March 14 at 7:30 PM at The Book Collector. Also reading will be Brad Buchanan, who will read from his broadside entitled “Ultrasound,” a collection of poems dedicated to his infant daughter Nora.

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Couples Reading—Goff and Staklis, Erik & Terryl, Mantecon and Mantecon, and Frith and Frith

February 13, 2007

The pre-Valentine’s couples reading event started at about the same time the rain began pelting the tin roof at the SPC in a way that reminded one of a hail of machine gun bullets and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The evening started off with the host Indigo Moor reading a poem by e.e. cummings […]

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Theory of the Leisure Class (Revised)

February 9, 2007
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February Literary Events for Sacramento

February 3, 2007

1 Thursday Poetry Unplugged at Luna’s TBA. 8pm. Luna’s Café. 1414 16th Street. Hosted by Mario Ellis Hill. Open mic before/after. Free. Info: 441-3931 or www.lunascafe.com. 3 Saturday Escritores del Nuevo Sol Writing workshop and potluck. 11am. La Raza Galeria Posada, 1024 22nd St. Info: Graciela Ramirez, 456-5323 or joannpen@comcast.net. 4 Sunday PoemSpirits Jan Haag. […]

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