WEALTH OF IDEAS

Cosumnes River College 2011/12 Literary Series All readings will be held in the Hawk’s Nest Bookstore, except the final celebration. Wednesday, October 26, 12-1:20, featuring Sacramento Poetry Center Readers, Trina Drotar and Sandy Thomas Trina Drotar, a San Francisco native, comes to poetry through prose, art, music, and design. She is the recipient of two Bazzanella literary awards, the Karen Warmdahl Memorial award for creative nonfiction, and several other awards. She has studied poetry, fiction, art, memoir, and screenwriting. She is currently working on a poetry collection entitled In the Night Garden ; she recently completed her creative thesis, Missing and Other Stories , a collection of fiction, and Cormorant in the Desert , a collection of poems, was published by Rattlesnake Press in 2011. Her work has appeared on Medusa’s Kitchen , The Ophidian 01 , Able Muse , Brevities , Illuminating Echoes , WTF , Primal Urge: A Journal for Diverse Humans , Ratt...

Sacramento poets are converging on New Dimension Saturday, September 25 to celebrate an event that has brought poetry to the people for over ten years. The popular poetry series, "The Show at Wo'se" is moving to a new venue. More than 15 prominents poets with showcase their best from 7 to 10 PM. Among the features are Sacramento Poet Laureate Bob Stanley, NSAA, Supanova, Immobme, Terry Moore, Andy Jones, the vibrant Nikki Brock and many more. Music will be provided by Mr Garret Perkins, a smooth jazz artist, and singers Clarenze Davis and Lisa Gardenia will perform. I will read a poem or two as well. Below is my brief interview with Terry Moore,nationally renowned performance poet and coordinator of this event: 1. How long have you been involved with The Show? I have been involved for the entire 10 years. 2. What are some of the most memorable events? Standing on stage and seeing the place completely packed when we have invited guest poets and singers from out of tow...

NSAA Today we feature a spoken word whose works I find moving. I have attended many of his performances, and we have shared the stage on several occassions. He is also a regular in the Sacramento Poetry scene, particularly at the Sacramento Poetry Center, Luna's Cafe, and the Mahogany poetry series, where he is a host. Please meet the poet known as NSAA. 1. Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. First, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My stage name is NSAA pronounced (en-sah-ah). It’s an African adinkra symbol that basically means quality, as I understand it. It’s like saying "The real McCoy". What I like about the word/symbol is that it is based on the quality of cloth, for example; this cloth is hand made nsaa. I’m a bit of an odd duck I’m afraid to say, my stage name is a case in point, how odd I will keep on the low-low, very political too. I love NPR, BBC and Democracy Now. My pet peeve right now, driving me insane, is what’s up with congress not fighting...