Presents
2012 SPC
Spring Writers Conference
Saturday April 14 9:00
AM to 5:00 PM
1719 25th Street
Sacramento,
CA
$30 Non-members,
$20 Members
Michelle
Bitting has work published or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review,
Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, Crab
Orchard Review, Passages North, Linebreak, diode, Anti—, the L.A. Weekly
and others. Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and as the
Weekly Featured Poet on Verse Daily. In 2007, Thomas Lux chose her
full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss, as the winner of the DeNovo
First Book Award and C & R Press published it in 2008. Her book Notes to
the Beloved, won the 2011 Sacramento Poetry Center Award and was published
in 2012. Recently, Michelle won the Beyond Baroque Foundation Award and she has
won the Rock & Sling Virginia Brendemuehl Award and Glimmer
Train Poetry Open. She has also been a finalist for the Poets &
Writers California Exchange contest and Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards.
Michelle has taught poetry in the U.C.L.A. Extension Writer’s Program, at Twin
Towers prison with a grant from Poets & Writers Magazine and is proud
to be an active California Poet in the Schools. She holds an MFA in Poetry from
Pacific University, Oregon. Visit her at:
www.michellebitting.com.
Christian
Kiefer is a musician, poet, novelist and professor. He has published his
poems in Wild Duck Review, Antioch Review and Blackbird. He has
been hailed by one critic as the founder of the "country ambient" sound, and his
collection of songs about 43 presidents entitled Of Great and Mortal Men
was featured on NPR. The Infinite Tides, his first published novel, will
be released from Bloomsbury in July 2012. He currently teaches at American River
College.
Kate Gale,
poet, writer, essayist and opera librettist, received her Ph.D. in American and
English Literature from Claremont Graduate University. She is on the judging
committee of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and is the managing editor of Red
Hen Press. She is also the editor of The Los Angeles Review, president of
the American Composers Forum–Los Angeles, past president of PEN USA, and serves
on the boards of the A Room of Her Own Foundation and the Poetry Society of
America. She has published five collections of poetry, most recently Mating
Season (Tupelo Press), an autobiographical novel titled Lake of Fire,
and a bilingual children’s book. She is also the editor of several anthologies
of fiction and non-fiction. As a librettist, she co-authored Paradises Lost
with Ursula K. LeGuin and composer Stephen Andrew Taylor and wrote RÃo de
Sangre, an original opera, with composer Don Davis. She has two forthcoming
collections of poetry, The Goldilocks Zone (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012) and
Echo Light (Blaze Vox, 2012). As an arts manager she curates several
reading series in Los Angeles and New York City.
Steve Gehrke
has published three books, most recently Michelangelo's Seizure,
which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of
Illinois Press. His other awards include an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize.
Poems from a new manuscript have appeared or are forthcoming at Poetry, The
Missouri Review, VQR, Agni, Shenandoah and many others. He teaches at the
University of Nevada-Reno.
Christina
Hutchins is the author of The Stranger Dissolves (Sixteen Rivers
Press, 2011) and two chapbooks, Collecting Light (Acacia Books, 1999) and
Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011 Robin Becker
Prize), and her poems appear in Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver
Quarterly, The Missouri Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi,
The Southern Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Her awards include
The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, The National Poetry Review’s
Finch Prize, two Barbara Deming Awards, and the James D. Phelan Award. She
holds degrees from UC Davis, Harvard, and Graduate Theological Union and
currently teaches process philosophy and poetry to graduate students at Pacific
School of Religion in Berkeley.
Tim Kahl
[http://www.timkahl.com] is the author of
Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009) and The Century of Travel
(Word Tech, forthcoming). His work has been published in Prairie
Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal,
Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as
Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American
Pinup (http://greatamericanpinup.wordpress.com/) and the
poetry video blog Linebreak Studios [http://linebreakstudios.blogspot.com/]. He is also
editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song [http://www.cladesong.com]. He is the vice president
and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently houses his
father's literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann's book of photos of Chile,
1932)
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