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The Center hosts readings, workshops, lectures, and publishes a variety of poetry publications. SPC is located in the R25 Arts Complex located on the corner of R & 25th Streets in midtown Sacramento.



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Showing posts with label event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label event. Show all posts

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Zen Marxist Launderettes

Monday Nights at the Poetry Center
featuring
Mira Kores, Emily Wright, Sandra Senne, Laura Ann Walton
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 7:30 PM
R25: An Intersection of Arts — 1719 25th Street
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke
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The Zen Marxist Launderettes is a writing group that formed seven years ago in Sacramento. A newly completed anthology of writing entitled Wring has been released with contributions by current members (Margaret S. Burns, Erin Exstrom, Ellen Johnson, Mira Kores, Cecile Martin, Carolyn Schneider, Sandra Senne, Laura Ann Walton and Emily Wright).
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Mira Kores has been writing poetry off and on since college. That was, of course, in the last century. Turning 80 was a bit of a shock but as luck would have it she then got published in a respectable literary magazine.
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Emily Wright has published poetry and prose in Quercus, Pinchpenny, Phantasm, The Suttertown News, and Pacific News Service newspapers. A co-founder of La Semilla Cultural Center in Sacramento, CA, she was also a co-founder of the Sacramento Labor Chorus. She has found meaning in work as a nurse's aide, air-photo interpreter, violinist, historian of Central America, and psychotherapist for children and their families. Her long narrative poem, "Love's Laundry" received its first complete public reading in September, 2008.
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Despite her B.S. In physics and M.A. In sociology, Sandra Senne has found literature, art and music to be the loves of her life. She believes that reading and writing have possibly saved her life as they led her into territory otherwise unknown.
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Laura Ann Walton has worked on a Master's Degree in creative writing, became the founding Director of Mary House of Loaves and Fishes and went on to found the Women's Wisdom Project, an arts empowerment program for disadvantaged women. At long last in her sixth decade, she is focusing on her own work, writing poems and creating collages.

Monday, May 24, 2010

S.A Griffin's Poetry Bomb - Monday May 31

Celebrate Memorial Day with a true memorial to the poem, as acclaimed poet, journalist and actor S.A. Griffin brings The Poetry Bomb to SPC.

What's the Poetry Bomb?

"The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions." (from the fundraising incubator site Kickstarter)

Griffin is now taking take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States. Next stop: Sacramento. Sure, you can check out The Poetry Bomb online, but don't miss this event. Frank Graham hosts on May 31st - 7:30 at SPC.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Festival at R25

Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6

Please stop by for the first ever R25 Festival - that's the parking lot where SPC lives at 25th and R - on Saturday June 5th (noon to 8pm) or Sunday, June 6th (noon to 6pm)

There will be artists' booths, live music, an art auction on Sunday, poetry, puppets, some drama performances, something for everyone.

We've been wanting to collaborate with the other organizations in the complex for a long time - this should be a fun weekend of music, art, poetry and more.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Christopher Buckley, C. E. Chaffin

Monday Night at the Poetry Center
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street (at 25th and R)
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Monday, May 17, 2010

SPC Brown Bag Lunch Series

Third Thursdays
May 20th, Noon
Central Library
828 I Street
Hosted by Mary Zeppa and Lawrence Dinkins
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We are already deep into May, the month in which we traditionally celebrate both Spring (as in dances-around-the-maypole May Day) and Labor (as in International-Workers May Day). Bring your favorite poems (preferably by a writer other than yourself) on the subjects of Spring, Work and/or collective celebration. Think metaphorically as well as literally. Let your mind run free.

Hot Poetry in the Park

Tonight's reading, hosted by Rebecca Morrison, is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. at Fremont Park. If it rains, the reading will be relocated to the SPC location at 25th and R.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Hot Poetry in the Park

Monday, May 17, 7pm
Carrie Rudzinski, April Ranger and Terryl Wheat
Host: Rebecca Morrison
Fremont Park
(between 15th and 16th Street and Q and P Street)

Monday, May 10, 2010

Aid For Haiti


Saturday
May 15th 
7pm

Tonight at the Poetry Center

The Sacramento Poetry Center celebrates the fifth annual performance of !X – The Sacramento City College Ethnic Theatre Workshop. 7:30pm.

Dale "Crawdad" Nelson, Maureen Hurley - May 12 at The Book Collector

Join Rattlesnake Press in celebrating the work of Crawdad Nelson and Maureen Hurley this coming Wednesday, May 12, as Richard Hansen hosts at The Book Collector, 1008 24th St., Sacramento, 7:30pm. - - -

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Tonight at The Sacramento Public Library

The Sacramento Poetry Center presents Stan Zumbiel and Edythe Haendel Schwartz.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Monday, May 10th at the Poetry Center


The Sacramento Poetry Center celebrates the fifth annual performance of !X – The Sacramento City College Ethnic Theatre Workshop.
Monday, May 10 at 7:30pm.
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This year, !X will present "Mis-Education Liberation."
Join us for an inspiring performance by this young and talented ensemble!
Hosted by Emmanuel Sigauke and Bob Stanley.
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The Sacramento City College Ethnic Theatre Workshop integrates various forms of art -- drama, music, dance, poetry, visual art -- with race, ethnic and gender studies. The goals of the TA 454/455 Race & Ethnicity in Performance class and of the Ethnic Theatre Workshop are to: 1) Develop artistic expressions of diverse experiences; 2) Encourage community development through participation in the arts; and 3) Promote educational equity at Sacramento City College.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Tonight at The Poetry Center


Poets on Board with Viola Weinberg and Mario Uribe.



May 5 at the Sacramento Room

May 5 at the Sacramento Room
The Sacramento Poetry Center presents
Edythe Haendel Schwartz and Stan Zumbiel
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6pm
Sacramento Room
Central Library, Second floor
828 I Street
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Poets on Board with Viola Weinberg and Mario Uribe



Viola Weinberg and Mario Uribe
Monday, May 3rd at 7:30pm
@R25 at 1719 25th Street
Host: Bob Stanley

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Poetry on buses in Sacramento? Thanks to RT Metro, UC Davis Extension, and the Sacramento Poetry Center, there's an alternative to reading advertising inside local buses these days. Inspired by programs in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, the new Poets on Board program puts poetry placards inside RT's buses to feature the work of local poets and artists. The first placards were installed during April (Poetry Month) and the poem is an excerpt from Enso, by Viola Weinberg, Sacramento's 2001 poet laureate.
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Earth Day 2010 - a busy day of poetry


April 22, 2010 was not only Earth Day, but judging from the events in the area, it was also Poetry Day. CSUS featured at least three poetry events: Way Cool Daddy-O Earth Day Reading, which I was pleased to host (more on this event below); Andrea Gibson - a spoken word poet and activist (http://www.andreagibson.org/), whose reading I attended; and a poetry slam hosted by a campus fraternal organization. FlatmanCrooked was in Davis, and BL Kennedy hosted his last event at Luna's. I am sure that there were more events that day.

April 30 - Stories on Stage at SPC

STORIES on STAGE
Stefanie Freele and Renee Thompson
read by Kent Gray, Marni Webb and Tim Kahl
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Friday, April 30, 2010  | 7:30pm
@R25 at 1719 25th Street (between Q and R)
Suggested donation $5
Join us for refreshments, beginning at 7PM
Host and Coordinator: Valerie Fioravanti

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Monday, April 26 | John Murillo, John Bell at SPC

Monday, April 26 | 7:30pm
John Murillo, John Bell
Monday Night at the Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street, Sacramento

Upcoming events at SPC

The Sacramento Poetry Center has some great events coming up in May and June. Unless otherwise stated, these events take place at the Center's 25th & R street location in Sacramento.