WEALTH OF IDEAS

SPC presents Seven poets – winners from The Sacramento Bee’s poetry contest: Bill Gainer, JoAnn Anglin, Jim DenBoer, Arthur Butler, Roberta Alexander, Judy Brim, Katrina Hays Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM HQ for the Arts at 1719 25th Street Host: Bob Stanley (Sacramento Poet Laureate/president of the SPC) Bill Gainer is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours Poetry." He has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. Gainer considers himself forever influenced by an odd mix of outsiders. Gainer is nationally published and remains a sought after reader. JoAnn Anglin is formerly a poet-teacher in the schools, she is a long-time member of the Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun). Besides the Escritores’ anthology, her poems have been in 100 Poems about Sacramento, Anthology of the Third Sunday Poets, The Pagan Muse, a...

On Monday, July 13, I will be hosting two poets, Neal Whitman and Danny Romero. Venue: Sacramento Poetry Center Time: 7:30 pm Neal Whitman lives in Pacific Grove, California, where he is a member of its Public Library Board and its Cultural Arts Commission, and, in nearby Carmel, is a volunteer docent and life member of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation. His poems have been published in Monterey Poetry Review, Vermont Literary Review, The MacGuffin, International Journal for Healthcare and Humanities, Getting Something Read, The Pedestal Magazine, and New Verse News. He also is an editor for the medical humanities online journal, Pulse. Neal likes to write haiku and teach others how; he is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, the Haiku Poets of Northern California, and the Haiku Society of America. Neal says, "Long ago I took to heart a piece of advice from former Poet Laureate Donald Hall that the poetry recital is public confirmation of a private labor. When I read...

Presents C. E. Chaffin Monday June 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM HQ for the Arts 1719 25th Street Host: Emmanuel Sigauke Craig Erick Chaffin goes by his initials because he doesn't like his first name, though he is trying to make peace with it now. Born in Ventura, California, in 1954, he graduated from UCLA in 1976, Summa Cum Laudanum, winning the top honors award in English, The Edward Niles Hooker Award, though he was not in the honors program. He later taught Family Medicine at UCI and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians before the age of 40. Due to chronic spinal pain and manic-depression, he elected to retire on disability from medicine in his early 40s, which led to his discovery of the literary internet. He published, and edited, The Melic Review: a journal that distinguished i...

Time Tested Books Reading Series in Sacramento, California . Downtown Sacramento is rich poetry place. There are readings every week at venues like Luna's Cafe, Sacramento Poetry Center, the Book Collector, Avid Reader, Queen Sheba, and others. This is not even mentioning all the readings that take place in the area's colleges, bookstores and cafes.