*!X* Performs

March 15, 2006

This week, Monday, at the Sacramento Poetry Center, Bob Stanley hosted performance poetry by the Sacramento City College group !X. The ensemble has been creating and preparing for their performances for over 6 months, and had a chance to showcase their work at the weekly venue. Hailed in Sacramento Bee’s Sunday Ticket as “one of […]

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Julia Connor at American River College

March 13, 2006

Julia Connor is Sacramento’s current poet laureate, and she read a wide swath of her poetry at American River College for a group of mostly students. A trail of candy leading to the venue produced few attendees. Most attended for “extra credit” points. Overheard before the reading even started: “I’m not even sure what a […]

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Fairy Tale Town March 4th, 2006—Celebration of Dr. Seuss

March 10, 2006

One never knows what one can find in Mr. McGregor’s Garden. The Sacramento Poetry Center set up on the broad tables found there, hoping to find a few little bunnies squeezing in under the fence so that they could be thoroughly punished with words. The task, again, for errant children was to build their poetry […]

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Introducing…Blood on the Page

March 9, 2006

Monday, March 6th at SPC: the room was filled with the words of survivors, and those that reveal their true life physical and emotional pain in the form of literary artistic expression. Blood on the Page is a cathartic and very surprising uplifting collaboration of writing, by people who have gone through difficulties that most […]

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Dennis Schmitz Reading at Art Foundry Feb. 25th

March 7, 2006

What better way to kick off the Sacramento Poetry Center’s blog than with Sacramento’s first poet laureate. The dean of Sacramento letters, Dennis Schmitz read at the Art Foundry on February 25. He read from primarily two sources: his book Singing, which was approaching its 20th anniversary of publication and many new, unpublished pieces. As […]

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Online Feedback?

March 7, 2006

Anybody want to start on online feedback group for poetry writing? It’s so tough to get out and share work. If we had a system of posting and sharing new work, we could get and give feedback – (hopefully not too much) and revise, revise, revise. (Or just ignore)

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