SPC to Feature Two Great Poets on March 8
On March 8, I am hosting a big event at the Sacramento Poetry Center, featuring award-winning poets Jim Powell (1993 MacArthur Fellow) and Heidy Steidlmayer ( winner of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize). Come hear these great Northern CA poets. The event starts at 7:30 pm and there will be open mic afterwards. The Features Jim Powell is the author of two collections of poetry, Substrate , just published by Pantheon Books, and It Was Fever That Made The World (University of Chicago Press), and the translator of The Poetry Of Sappho (Oxford University Press) and Catullan Revenants (Booklyn). His poems and translations are included in the Paris Review Anthology , the Norton Introduction to Literature , the Oxford Anthology of Classical Verse In English Translation , California Poetry, From the Gold Rush To the Present , and the Addison Street Anthology . His honors include the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Younger Poets Prize, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Associa