Photos from Tonight's SPC Poetry Performance: VS Chochezi & Rob Anthony

Featured poets V.S. Chochezi and Rob Anthony
It was a night of great performances, like how most Monday nights are at Sacramento Poetry Center. I left the place relaxed and ready to write for the rest of the week. Great audience too (don't you just love people so committed to poetry that they come out on a Monday night and see what we have to offer. Thank you, Sacramento. So now, here are the photos:

Lawrence Dinkins (NSAA) opened the session with his signature piece about "getting got". I have heard it so many times that now listening to it is like co-creating. Powerful piece...about..."getting got".

Rob Anthony: he recites all his poems, brings them to life on the stage. I liked "I-poet", which reminds poets that what they say dosen't have to be liked: they poet.



Both poets kept the audience engaged, each poem followed by applause.



Rob and V.S. duo performance.





V.S. Chochezi, who calls herself a poet of political consciousness, has performed poetry in Sacramento since 1990. Listening to her poetry transports me far; she brings in an acute sense of history, of Africa and its Diaspora, and how our everyday lives factor in the political spectrum of where we live.

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