Wordslingers 2006: An Evening with Amy Tan

July 12, 2006

Literature Alive Presents Wordslingers 2006: An Evening With Amy Tan Grass Valley • Saturday, October 21, 2006 • Tickets Onsale Now! Tickets have just been released for Wordslingers 2006, featuring an evening with famed novelist Amy Tan. The event, presented byLiterature Alive!, a Nevada County non-profit, will take place Saturday, October 21, 2006 beginning at […]

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News from the SPC Workshop & Beyond | July 10th, 2006

July 10, 2006

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006, at 7:30 P.M. is the next meeting of the Sacramento Poetry Center Workshop. Our Facilitator is Danyen Powell. Bring 12 – 15 copies of your one-page poem — and yourself — to the Hart Center, 915 27th St. (27th and J Streets). Monday, July 10, 2006: Bryan Tso Jones will read […]

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News from the SPC Workshop & Beyond | July 3rd, 2006

July 7, 2006

While two of the Sacramento Poetry Center’s publicity vehicles —Poetry Now and the SPC Website — remain grounded, it’s worth noting that Carol Frith’s informative newsletter News from the SPC Workshop & Beyond continues to provide weekly updates useful to the poetry community. Sent to folks who request to be on her email list, I […]

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Bryan Tso Jones— Monday July 10th, 2006 7:30pm at SPC

July 7, 2006

Bryan Tso Jones recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Literature at California State University, Chico. In the Summer of 2005, he attended the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference and will be attending the 2006 Squaw Valley Community of Writers this coming July. His work has been published in the Crab Orchard […]

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After July 8th, Event, La Raza Galeria Posada Will Temporarily Close

July 6, 2006

La Raza Galeria Posada, which has played host to a number of poetry readings held by Escritores Del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun), will close after a last Second Saturday event on July 8th. According to a July 4th story in the Sacramento Bee, the closure was ” ‘temporary’ and would allow the […]

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A Night of Translation [Featuring Nguyen Do, Art Mantecon, and James DenBoer]

July 2, 2006

A NIGHT OF TRANSLATION [Featuring Nguyen Do, Art Mantecon, and James DenBoer] The evening got off to a slow start when the first reader Nguyen Do (otherwise known around these parts by his pen name Dos Nguyen) began his recitation while struggling with his English. He was very nervous reading in a tongue other than […]

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SPC’s Sacramento Poetry Events [July]

July 1, 2006

1 Escritores del Nuevo Sol’s writing workshop and potluck on 1st Saturdays. 11am, second floor at La Raza Galeria Posada, 1421 R St. (15th & R). Info: Graciela Ramirez, 456-5323 or joannpen@comcast.net 3 Sacramento Poetry Center No Reading 5 Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour, host andy Jones, 5pm, KDVS-90.3 FM or subscribe to podcast […]

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Julia Connor, Nancy Wahl, David Humphreys at SPC

June 25, 2006

Indigo Moor was host to three area poets on June 19, one of them Sacramento’s Poet Laureate, Julia Connor, whose grit and effervescence as usual was captivating. Before the three featured readers began, Matthew Fox provided a solo guitar piece on a nylon string guitar. The piece started with some purposely dissonant chords and then […]

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SPC Sacramento Poetry Events [June]

June 21, 2006

21 Wednesday Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour, host Andy Jones, 5pm, KDVS-90.3 FM or subscribe to the podcast at www.kdvs.org. Info: www.culturelover.com. South Natomas Urban Voices presents Ann Menebroker and D.R.Wagner. Hosted by B.L. Kennedy, 6:30 – 8 p.m. South Natomas Library, 2901 Truxel Rd. Free. Mahogany Urban Poetry Series, 9pm. Hosted by Khiry […]

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Correction from SPC Website

June 16, 2006

The SPC website (which is hardly ever updated these days) has the upcoming reading on Monday June 19 featuring only David Humphreys. The reading should be billed as featuring Julia Connor and Nancy Wahl along with David Humphreys. Julia Connor will be reading from her great body of work like “Chrysanthemum” Nancy Wahl will be […]

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