Jason Shapiro || Monday, December 9, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street || Free Event & Parking || Open Mic || Refreshments || Host: Stuart Canton

December 9, 2019

Jason Shapiro is an American River Review alumni, 2X Exec. Editor of Calaveras Station before graduating with a Masters from CSUS (and a Burt Reynolds of a multi-page publication in Calaveras Station followed a couple semesters later), a voice for radio, a knife behind the scenes at gourmet sushi joints, a man who sought the […]

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Poetry Slam! Cash Prizes – 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Place! || Monday, Dec 2, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street || Hosts CharRon Smith and Len Germinara || FREE Event & Parking

December 1, 2019
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Maya Khosla and Bob Stanley || Monday, November 25, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street || Free Event & Parking || Open Mic || Refreshments || Host Stuart Canton

November 23, 2019

Arribada: Arrival of Olive Ridley Sea Turtlesby Maya KhoslaFrom Canary Spring 2014 Because desire and perfection are tangled forever in darkness,those who emerge are offspring of an edgewhose salts and sighs echo the waves.The night rising and sinking under phosphorescencechurned into beingwith each wave’s crash and sizzle. A map of coldgreen light from which mysterymust surface […]

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Wren Tuatha and Sally Ashton || Monday, November 18, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street || Free Event & Parking || Open Mic || Refreshments || Host Penny Kline

November 13, 2019

Wren Tuatha’s poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Canary, Baltimore Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Lavender Review, and others. She’s editor at Pitkin Review and Califragile, journal of climate change and social justice. Her first collection is Thistle and Brilliant (Finishing Line Press). Wren is followed around the Camp Fire burn zone by a goat named Simile. A Wolf Girl Enters the […]

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D.A. Powell and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

November 7, 2019

outside thermalito Persimmons ripen with the first frost.            The bitterness inflicted on them                        takes their own bitterness away. Would that there were some other way. if found, then measured  1. Now that I can, I am afraid to become a […]

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AndYes and Heather Roegiers feature at SPC || Monday, Nov 4, 7:30 pm || Spc, 1719 25th Street || Host CharRon Smith || Free Event & Parking || Open Mic

November 3, 2019
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Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

October 25, 2019

edited by Lucille Lang Day Monday, October 28 at 7:30 PM with E. K. Cooper, Tom Goff, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Stephen Meadows, Joshua McKinney, J.C. Olander E.K. Cooper writes, “I am a 60-year-old Pomo from the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California. Writing has helped me to remember not only my own rich history but histories […]

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Linda Collins (book release) & Geoffrey Neill

October 11, 2019

Monday, October 14 at 7:30 pm

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Angela James and Russell Cummings

October 10, 2019

Monday October 7, 2019 at 7:30 PM Sacramento Poetry Center Angela James is a local poet and storyteller who has featured many times over the years at a variety of venues. A true performance artist, she weaves music, movement and storytelling into her poetic performances in an eclectic fusion that appeals to all audiences. Angela is […]

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Joey Garcia, Renee Moffett Thompson, and Dr. Angelo A. Williams

September 27, 2019

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 […]

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