WEALTH OF IDEAS

Light and After , by Kobus Moolman Deep South Publishers (Grahamstown: 2010) ISBN: 978-0-9584915-7-0 Kobus Moolman’s Light and After is his fifth collection of poetry. Lyrically evocative and engaging, this collection reintroduces readers familiar with Moolman’s poetry to his confident lines, unique images, memorable language, and impressive narrative voice. In this collection Moolman uses a mixture of prose poems and short/lyric poems to explore themes that encompass public and private dimensions. Divided into four sections, the book opens appropriately with “Moving,” a haunting poem that uses a collage of images and an observant narrative voice to unravel the mystery of what appears to be a dream. In this poem we are introduced to a new homeowner’s obsession with his new home and the promise that comes with owning a new home. This observation becomes clear to us as the speaker declares: “It was their new house/With all the lights on /Their shiny, new, empty house / With large room...

 C onsider contributing your creative work to the sixth annual edition of Cosumnes River College’s literary publication  The journal is looking for creative work in the following areas: • short stories (up to 2,500 words) • essays (up to 2,500 words), including autobiographical narrative, criticism, interviews, & mini-essays (250 words) on the theme: “When I opened my mouth to sing…” • poems • art: photos, drawings, etc. Submissions: Please forward your contributions to crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu Include no more than 5 poems or photos per entry; limit your short stories & essays to 2 contributions per year Format: Please send MS Word attachments for writing & jpeg files for the art For more information contact David Weinshilboum at: weinshd [AT] crc.losrios.edu Deadline for the Spring 2012 issue is March 15, 2012. "We are committed to publishing  emerging & established writers. We encourage the Cosumnes River Colleg...

PRESENTS Terry Ahearn and Emily Hughes Monday June 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM 1719 25th Street • Crossroads for the Arts Host: Emmanuel Sigauke Terry Ahearn’s poetry has been published in Blue Unicorn, High Desert Journal, Poetalk, Poetry Now , and the Cosumnes River Journal , among other publications. He has won the Samuel Goldwyn Award for Creative Writing and the Silver Award for amateur filmmaking from the Houston International Film Festival. He has a Master’s Degree in English from California State University of Sacramento and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Screenwriting from UCLA, and he currently teaches English Writing at Cosumnes River College and San Joaquin Delta College. He lives in east Sacramento. Gardener Few persons stroll the interstate, where dust creatures snake the yellow-painted lines, where the air trembles with the heat, where the distance might be where you see it and then again might not be anywhere you think it is at all. The only people there are the ones that shat...

Noah (Supanova) Hayes in action at SPC We had a good reading at SPC on Monday, March 14, featuring David Iribarne and Noah Hayes, their first time sharing the stage, but certainly not my first time hosting them. In February Noah Hayes read at Cosumnes River College with Terry a O'Neal, Takitha Buford, and Shenae Crain. I have also shared the stage with him in different venues in Sacramento. Different audiences are always captivated by his performances. David Iribarne David Iribarne is a regular at the Sacramento Poetry, and I have hosted his reading in 2009. This time he was reading from his new book Bones, Skin, and Soul , which contains elegiac pieces about his late parents. Iribarne's poetry centers mostly on relationships and family matters. Noah Hayes is influenced by his love for hip-hop, particulary the classic hip-hop of the 70s. His poetry sends a message of social consiousness, and uplifting message, much like the message of classic hip-hop. His lines vary from the d...

The winner of the 2010 Sacramento Poetry Center Manuscript Contest is Melissa Morphew for her manuscript Bluster, which our final judge Indigo Moor has just selected as the winner. Here's some of what Indigo had to say: "My choice is Bluster because of lines such as: ; he cups a drunken bee in his hand, puts it to her ear— loovvvvvvvvvve— uncups the bee, palm unstung; love, love, the word throbs her wrist, a razor cut, but this is retrospect and If there is a flower breaking from the wall, breaking, the stone cleaved, the petals cleaved from the marble, surprised by such blooming, such fecundity in the midst of barren rock “Bluster often startled me. The line breaks and form choices were exacting and somehow puckish. Consistently, I was kept off guard by the prospect of what I would find." Melissa Morphew is a graduate of the University of Georgia's PhD program in English. Morphew is the recipient of several national and international poetry prizes, including: The Ac...