Impressive Line-Up for Sacramento Poetry Center

My debut July 14 hosting event at Sacramento Poetry Center will feature Ali Salaam, poet, motivational speaker, actor who recently moved to the area. He will read with David Iribarne, a Poetry Now regular, who just finished a book of poetry on cancer. He will be reading from this collection. The reading is at 7:30pm.

On August 11 Sacramento poet Brad Buchanan and Texas poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle will read from their latest publications. Brad Buchanan 's new collection, Swimming the Mirror, was described by Jilia Connor, Sacramento Poet Laureate, as a way to "map the advent of the miraculous". The poems, dealing with the arrival of Brad's daughter, "will charm you." I read his first collection, Miracle Shirker, in one sitting, in a parking lot outside Barnes & Noble Bookstore, and, if asked, I would describe that collection as a "thief of time" because I never completed the trip to the bookstore. Wendy Carlisle comes to Sacramento from Texas by way of San Jose, where she hangs out with the San Jose Poetry Group. Her second poetry book, DISCOUNT FIREWORKS, was recently published by Jacaranda Press in San Jose. Grace Cavalieri, award-winning poetry and fiction writer,states, "Wendy is a reader's dream. Her music is funny, sexy, surprising, taking the sorrow out of the everyday world."

But these are not the only events Sacramento Poetry Center has prepared for you. See the menu below:

June 30 [Frank]: Stephen Kessler and Jeff Knorr

July 7 [Frank]: Asian Poetry Reading with Frances Kakugawa
July 14 [Emmanuel]: Ali-Salaam and David Iribarne
July 18 {Friday} [Bob]: Sacramento Poetry Contest Winners
July 21 [Rebecca]: Yang Her benefit for My Sister's House
July 28 [Tim]: Susan Palwick and Ellen Klages

August 4 [Frank]: Mary Mackey
August 11 [Emmanuel]: Brad Buchanan & Wendy Taylor Carlisle
August 18 [Rebecca]: Nancy Wallace & a friend
August 25 [Tim]: Ann Keniston and June Saraceno

September 1 [Art]:
September 8 [Emmanuel]:
September 15 [Rebecca]:
September 22 [Tim]: Robbie Grossklaus and Company
September 29 [Frank]: Alan Williamson

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I am looking for poets to read on September 8, October 13, and December 8. Contat me at manu@munyori.com

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