Sacramento Poetry Features Phillip Larrea and David Iribarne



Presents
Phillip Larrea and David Iribarne
Monday June 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street at SPC
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke


Phillip Larrea was born and raised in Sacramento, attended UC Davis, where he studied under Thom Gunn and Karl Shapiro. After a brief stint in Seattle, he moved to New York, because that's where they keep the money. He is a wealth advisor and syndicated business columnist with Examiner.com. In 2012 his poems have appeared locally in Medusa's Kitchen and Sacramento Poetry Art and Music (SPAM), as well as nationally in Nostrovia To Writing, The Artistic Muse, and internationally in The Poetry Bus Magazine and Outburst Magazine. Phillip is the author of two Spoken Word CDs, "Loose Change" and "Scrapbook", from which he will be reading tonight.

 
 
 
 
David Iribarne has resided in Sacramento for 39 years. He has a B.A. in English and works in social service as a Mental Health Tech. His poetry has been featured in Medusa's Kitchen, Primal Urge, Poetry Now, Sussurus, Catchword, and he was the recipient of Sacramento News and Review's second prize award for their 2005 student poetry contest. He has written a poetry book entitled Bones, Skin, and Soul and a chapbook entitled Soul of Love. He is working on new poetry and looking to put together a book of poetry about children and the joys of parenting. Readers of his work have said this -- “In all my years as a poetry reader, I’ve seldom come across work that is so powerfully drawn from such sensitive observations of relationships. Family shapes David Iribarne and his creative experience . . . Iribarne has a giant poetic understanding of what it is to be human.” — Frank Dixon Graham, Poet and Former Poetry Now Editor.

http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com/philip-larrea-and-david-iribarne/

     
Coming Events at SPC and Elsewhere:
All events are at Sacramento Poetry Center at 7:30 PM unless noted otherwise. Host name in brackets.

June 18 [Rebecca Moos]: 7 p.m. (early start time) Hot Poetry in the Park: Summer Solstice with Chris Olander and Maureen Hurley at Fremont Park, corner of 15th and Q
June 21 [Mary Zeppa and Lawrence Dinkins] Poetry at the Central Library, 828 I Street, 12 noon
June 25 [Tim Kahl]: Jeanine Stevens and Kimberly White


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