WEALTH OF IDEAS

Presents 2012 SPC Spring Writers Conference Saturday April 14 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM 1719 25th Street Sacramento, CA $30 Non-members, $20 Members Michelle Bitting has work published or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner , Narrative , Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Linebreak, diode, Anti—, the L.A. Weekly and other s. Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and as the Weekly Featured Poet on Verse Daily . In 2007, Thomas Lux chose her full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss, as the winner of the DeNovo First Book Award and C & R Press published it in 2008. Her book Notes to the Beloved , won the 2011 Sacramento Poetry Center Award and was published in 2012. Recently, Michelle won the Beyond Baroque Foundation Award and she has won the Rock & Sling Virginia Brendemuehl Award and Glimmer Train Poetry Open. She has also been a finalist for the Poets & Writers California Exchange contest and Rona...

FEB 16 -- Bolo and Bullshit: The Other TS Eliot. Josh McKinney is the author of two award-winning books of poetry: Saunter , co-winner of the University of Georgia Press Poetry Series Open Competition in 2002, and The Novice Mourner , winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize in 2005. He has also published two poetry chapbooks: Saunter (Primitive Publications, 1998) and Permutations of the Gallery (Pavement Saw Press, 1996), winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared in over one hundred national journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner , and many others. His other awards include The Dickinson Poetry Prize and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Joshua is currently a professor of English at California State University, Sacramen...

Presents Zara Raab and Judy Wells Monday, January 23 at 7:30 PM 1719 25th Street at Crossroads for the Arts Host: Tim Kahl Zara Raab grew up along the North Coast of California. She attended Mills College and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) for college and graduate school. In her twenties, she lived in Paris, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., where she freelanced as an editor and writer, before returninto the West Coast to raise a family. Her grandparents’ grandparents’ settled in Humboldt and Mendocino counties in the 19th century, where they farmed, raised cattle and harvested tan oak for leather. Both her parents attended one-room schools; the one in Branscomb still stands. Early California is a subject of Swimming the Eel, just as the drama of family life informs her earlier work, The Book of Gretel. On Zara Raab’s Swimming the Eel “With abundant detail and in many voices the poet rounds out family history with sweetness, humor and presence, frequ...

Featured poets V.S. Chochezi and Rob Anthony It was a night of great performances, like how most Monday nights are at Sacramento Poetry Center. I left the place relaxed and ready to write for the rest of the week. Great audience too (don't you just love people so committed to poetry that they come out on a Monday night and see what we have to offer. Thank you, Sacramento. So now, here are the photos: Lawrence Dinkins (NSAA) opened the session with his signature piece about "getting got". I have heard it so many times that now listening to it is like co-creating. Powerful piece...about..."getting got". Rob Anthony: he recites all his poems, brings them to life on the stage. I liked "I-poet", which reminds poets that what they say dosen't have to be liked: they poet. Both poets kept the audience engaged, each poem followed by applause. Rob and V.S. duo performance. V.S. Chochezi, who calls herself a poet of political consciousness, has performe...

2010 SPC Annual Writing Conference with Joseph Lease, Toni Mirosevich, Donna de la Perriere, Flatman Crooked, Indigo Moor, Peter Grandbois and Foshang with Lawrence Dinkins and Ross Hammond Friday April 16, 2010 7:30 PM Saturday April 17, 2010 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM @R25 at 1719 25th Street Sacramento, California All readings and workshops are FREE For registration, contact Tim Kahl at tnklbnny@frontiernet.net

This year's SPC Annual Writing Conference features Joseph Lease, Toni Mirosevich, Donna de la Perriere, Flatman Crooked, Indigo Moor, Peter Grandbois and Foshang with Lawrence Dinkins and Ross Hammond Friday April 16, 2010 7:30 PM Saturday April 17, 2010 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM @R25 at 1719 25th Street Sacramento, California All readings and workshops are FREE For registration, contact Tim Kahl at tnklbnny@frontiernet.net Friday April 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM Reading: Indigo Moor and Peter Grandbois Saturday April 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM 1st Workshop Session Indigo Moor • “Writing to History and Culture” In this workshop participants will discuss examples of poetry and prose to discover: How does a writer handle emotionally charged events in a professional manner? How does a writer maintain objectivity without obscuring the heart of the past? How do we uncover the passion in dry facts, accounts, testimonials, and interviews? [lecture, discussion, writing exercise, and take home...

The following message was submitted by Tim Kahl, Events coordinator and Vice-President of the SPC Board: Presents 30th Anniversary Event for the Sacramento Poetry Center Monday, October 26 at 7:30 PM 1719 25th Street at HQ for the Arts The Sacramento Poetry Center - Sacramento's center for the literary arts since 1979, marks its anniversary with the release of Keepers of the Flame: The First 30 Years . Keepers , published by Rattlesnake Press, was collected and edited by Mary Zeppa, Kate Asche, and Emmanuel Sigauke. “Our goal is to give the reader a series of glimpses into the first 30 years of the Sacramento Poetry Center. Think of it as the in-print version of a highlight reel, brought to on-paper life by the remarkable generosity and amazing tech savvy of Photographer Charlie McComish and Graphic Designer Richard Hansen.” It’s going to be a festive night, a relax...

Danny Romero and Tim Kahl will be reading at the Woodland Public Library, 250 First Street, Woodland, CA 95695. Tuesday April 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM Danny Romero was born and raised in Los Angeles. He has degrees from University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1988) and Temple University (MA, 1993) in Philadelphia, where he taught writing (part-time) for many years. Romero’s poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals throughout the country, including Colorado Review, Drumvoices Revue, Green Mountains Review, Paterson Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, and Ploughshares. His work can also be found in such anthologies as West of the West: Imagining California (1989), Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction (1993), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (2003), Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (2006), Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (2008) and Pow Wow: Charting the Faultlines in the America...