An Evening with Tiger's Eye Journal Poets at Sacramento Poetry Center
Issue 18 of Tiger's Eye Tonight the Sacramento Poetry Center hosted the Tiger's Eye Journal Readings, which featured six poets who contributed to the current issue(Spring-Summer 2010).I was the host, since second Mondays at SPC are, in the words of Sacramento Poet Laureate Bob Stanely, "Manu Mondays". It was a full house (what a lively crowd!), and the open mic featured four more poets, so for the night, we had a total of ten powerful poets. Here are some memorable moments from the reading: the audience The Tiger's Eye editors Colette Jonopulos and JoAn Osborne, who write, "We leave traces of our energy behind when we write. When another person accepts our words it completes the loop which begins with our initial creative urge. To think that our words don't change lives is to be naive. To write knowing our words are an intimate exchange of energy between the poet and the reader, is to be aware, awake, to be living the questions themselves." Cleo G...