A Reading for the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
Monday, September 30 at 7:30 PM ||| 1719 25th Street
Prize winning published fiction writer and essayist, Renee Moffett Thompson, poet and journalist Joey Garcia, and social justice activist and writer Dr. Angelo A. Williams will read on a special night at the Sacramento Poetry Center. This event is a fundraiser for the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, a local Sacramento supportive service to the homeless.
Admission to this event is a donation in the amount of your choice: simply write a check, make an online contribution via our link, or drop some cash in the jar on arrival. Fifth Monday Charitable Readings hosts are Frank Graham and Leonard Germinara.
Renée Moffett Thompson’s second novel, THE PLUME HUNTER, launched from Torrey House Press in fall 2011. PLUME follows the life of young Fin McFaddin, an Oregon outdoorsman who takes to plume hunting — killing birds to collect and sell feathers for women’s hats — to support his widowed mother. It also touches on the formation of the nation’s first wildlife refuges, and the National Audubon Society. Renee’s debut novel, THE BRIDGE AT VALENTINE, appeared in August 2010 and pits a sheep-ranching family against a cattle ranching family in their fight to control the range land. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry called BRIDGE “very original and very appealing.” RMT books: The Plume Hunter (Torrey House Press, 2011), The Bridge at Valentine (Tres Picos Press, 2010); Journals: 10,000 Tons of Black Ink, Animal: Beast of a Literary Magazine, Arcadia, Cactus Heart, Chiron Review, Literal Latte, Narrative Magazine. RMT prizes won: Renee’s short stories have placed in competitions sponsored by Narrative, Literary Death Match Bookmark Contest, Literal Latte, Glimmer Train, and Writer’s Digest.
Joey Garcia was born in Belize and lives in Sacramento. For more than 20 years she has written the “Ask Joey” advice column for the Sacramento News & Review newspaper. She’s also the “Relationship Expert” for Fox 40 News. Joey has received a Pushcart nomination, poetry fellowships in Italy and Paris, and writing awards from Randall Jarrell International Poetry Competition, and Writer’s Digest, among others. Her poems and short stories have been published in the Tule Review, Brevity, POUi, Calyx, The Caribbean Writer, and several anthologies. Joey is the founder and director of the Belize Writers’ Conference where writers vacation with literary agents and learn to become authorpreneurs. She is also the regional director for Global Woman Club San Francisco, an international women’s leadership and networking organization.
Dr. Angelo Williams is a professor of African American Studies, Sociology and Public Policy who uses poetry to comprehend the personal, social and political. Angelo’s published work includes his award winning submission to Capitol Public Radio’s (90.9FM) Falling In Love Supreme competition as well as poetry and prose appearing in Tule Review, Poetry Now, SN&R, Sacramento Observer, LA Sentinel, KPFA(94.1FM), and KDVS(90.3FM).
