William Land Elementary School Poetry Reading, May, 14, 2 p.m.

May 5, 2016

Join students from Mr. Pickering’s and Ms. Andorf’s sixth grade classes for a reading of their original poetry at the Sacramento Poetry Center! 2 p.m. May 14th. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering    

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John Allen Cann – BOOK LAUNCH, Saturday, May 7 at 6 PM, 1719 25th Street

May 5, 2016
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Frank Graham’s International Forms & Styles Class

May 3, 2016

 

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2016 SPC Writers Conference

April 27, 2016

At 3:00 there will be a brief reading (roughly 12-15 minutes each) for all of the conference presenters which will last until roughly 4:30 Salgado Maranhão has two books published in this country: Blood of the Sun (Milkweed Editions, 2012) andTiger Fur (White Pine Press, 2015). He has an unusual life history, rising from rural impoverishment and illiteracy (to […]

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Stan Zumbiel, Troy Myers, and Albert Garcia

April 22, 2016

Stan Zumbiel, Troy Myers, and Albert Garcia   Monday, April 25 at 7:30 PM SPC at 1719 25th Street Host: Tim Kahl Stan Zumbiel taught English in middle and high school for thirty-five years and has had a hand in raising four children. He sat on the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty-five years. […]

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Ian Kappos and Josh Fernandez

April 16, 2016

Josh Fernandez‘s full-length collection of poems Spare Parts and Dismemberment was published by R.L. Crow in 2011. He has written about the arts for Spin Magazine, The Sacramento News & Review, Sacramento Magazine, The Hartford Advocate, Submerge and The Sacramento Bee. He is also a frequent contributor to the punk satire website The Hard Times. His poems, creative nonfiction and short stories […]

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Mariam Ahmed and Kimberly White

April 9, 2016
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Beth Suter and Danyen Powell

March 31, 2016
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Dr. Jonas Cope explores Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

March 28, 2016

  Special event at SPC Wed. March 30 at 7:30pm   Dr. Jonas Cope explores Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” Free to the public 1719 25th Street between Q and R   Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” while sailing around Lake Geneva with Lord Byron in late June 1816. Though the […]

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Phillip Barron and Jane Gregory

March 25, 2016

Phillip Barron and Jane Gregory Monday, March 28 at 7:30 PM Sacramento Poetry Center at 1719 25th Street Host: Tim Kahl Phillip Barron’s first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, won the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award and was published by Fourteen Hills Press. Elsewhere, his writing appears in New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Janus Head, Orion, Saw Palm, […]

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