Big New Year Kick Off at Sacramento Poetry Center
SPC presents
Seven poets – winners from The Sacramento Bee’s poetry contest:
Bill Gainer, JoAnn Anglin, Jim DenBoer, Arthur Butler, Roberta Alexander, Judy Brim, Katrina Hays
Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM
HQ for the Arts at 1719 25th Street
Host: Bob Stanley (Sacramento Poet Laureate/president of the SPC)
Bill Gainer is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours Poetry." He has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. Gainer considers himself forever influenced by an odd mix of outsiders. Gainer is nationally published and remains a sought after reader.
JoAnn Anglin is formerly a poet-teacher in the schools, she is a long-time member of the Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun). Besides the Escritores’ anthology, her poems have been in 100 Poems about Sacramento, Anthology of the Third Sunday Poets, The Pagan Muse, and the Rattlesnake Review. She co-hosts the PoemSpirits series and writes on the arts. Her chapbook, Words Like Knives, Like Feathers, was published by Rattlesnake Press in 2004.
James DenBoer lives in Sacramento, California, and works lightly as a rare book scout. His writing has won grants and awards from the International Poetry Forum, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Council on the Arts, the Carnegie Fund for Authors, the Authors League, PEN/New York, and other institutions. He has also translated into English, for the first time, a book of poems by Venantius Fortunatus, a 6th century Latin poet, and the extant 11–13th century Romance kharjas of Arabic and Hebrew muwashshah. DenBoer is working on a new poetry manuscript for publication in June 2008. Recently James has published the collection the poems by Venantius Fortunatus on Bald Trickster Press.
Arthur Butler is a self-proclaimed poet, performance artist, and musician and says ‘Minstrel’ is the word that describes him best.
Katrina Hays is a second-year MFA student with the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the editor of Soundings, the RWW newsletter. She lives in Bend, Oregon.
Seven poets – winners from The Sacramento Bee’s poetry contest:
Bill Gainer, JoAnn Anglin, Jim DenBoer, Arthur Butler, Roberta Alexander, Judy Brim, Katrina Hays
Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM
HQ for the Arts at 1719 25th Street
Host: Bob Stanley (Sacramento Poet Laureate/president of the SPC)
Bill Gainer is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours Poetry." He has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. Gainer considers himself forever influenced by an odd mix of outsiders. Gainer is nationally published and remains a sought after reader.
JoAnn Anglin is formerly a poet-teacher in the schools, she is a long-time member of the Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun). Besides the Escritores’ anthology, her poems have been in 100 Poems about Sacramento, Anthology of the Third Sunday Poets, The Pagan Muse, and the Rattlesnake Review. She co-hosts the PoemSpirits series and writes on the arts. Her chapbook, Words Like Knives, Like Feathers, was published by Rattlesnake Press in 2004.
James DenBoer lives in Sacramento, California, and works lightly as a rare book scout. His writing has won grants and awards from the International Poetry Forum, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Council on the Arts, the Carnegie Fund for Authors, the Authors League, PEN/New York, and other institutions. He has also translated into English, for the first time, a book of poems by Venantius Fortunatus, a 6th century Latin poet, and the extant 11–13th century Romance kharjas of Arabic and Hebrew muwashshah. DenBoer is working on a new poetry manuscript for publication in June 2008. Recently James has published the collection the poems by Venantius Fortunatus on Bald Trickster Press.
Arthur Butler is a self-proclaimed poet, performance artist, and musician and says ‘Minstrel’ is the word that describes him best.
Katrina Hays is a second-year MFA student with the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the editor of Soundings, the RWW newsletter. She lives in Bend, Oregon.
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