A Poetry Evening at the Book Collector and Queen Sheba ( Sacramento)
The audience packed the Book Collector for the Rattlesnake Book Launch Sacramento is the city of poetry. At any night of the week you can find a poetry event to go to, whether it's in the downtown area, or somewhere in the Greater Sac area. I usually just attend the Monday night readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center, where I am a host, but tonight I found myself attending two events, one at the Book Collector and a second one, at the Queen Sheba [Ethiopian] restaurant on Broadway. The Book Collector event, which started at 7:30pm, was a chapbook and broadside launch by Rattlesnake Press, the publishers of the Rattlesnake Review . The chapbook is Mirror, Mirror: Poems of the Mother-daughter Relationship by Susan Finkleman. The broadside is Late Harvest by Marie Reynolds. The poets read from their new works and the Book Collector was full, with people standing outside the door. The poets were introduced by the editor and publisher of Rattlesnake Press, Kathy Kieth. Nice event in...