The Sacramento Poetry Center

Written during Juan Felipe Herrera’s Reading at the Crest Theatre Presented by the Sacramento Poetry Center 11/12/16 mountains sometimes wear a sombrero of clouds as guacamole waterfalls from their bellies on to chips floating in salsa ponds above ceviche swimming through lime juice But there is no salt! just fresh water Cotija mixed with Queso […]

Dear Friends,   My beloved husband plus many friends and colleagues have worked to put together this campaign in an attempt to raise money so that I can have non-invasive brain surgery at Stanford Med Center in early 2017. Please click on this link for more information. If you are able to contribute, I / we will be forever grateful. […]

                                     Stan Padilla                                                              Hosted by Emmanuel Sigauke #1 Beginnings As clouds on the horizon forms come and go and they come again. Seasons come and go and the rhythms and cycles of nature hide the ancient treasures of the past and give them life on a new horizon. The luminous constellations of the past […]

Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave Books, 2013); Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), were all published by The University of California Press. He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A(Quemadura, 2006). O’Brien is […]