APRIL | Poetry Month events at the Book Collector | Updated

Some changes to the line-up. The SN&R event has moved to the 5th; the first bonefolder building party has moved to April 1st. -- Richard


APRIL 2008
POETRY MONTH EVENTS AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
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1008 24th Street
Sacramento, CA
Between J & K Streets
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916.442.9295
richard@poems-for-all.com
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Tuesday, April 1st, 6 - 8pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
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Help us build the hundreds of poem booklets we want to put on the street for Poetry Month.
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Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Saturday, April 5th, 7:30pm
CORNERED: FIVE YEARS OF SN&R'S POET'S CORNER
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A celebration of five years of poetry in the Sacramento News & Review. Poetry Editor Kel Munger is putting together a line-up of poets from among those who've been published in the papers' weekly Poet's Corner.


Wednesday, April 9th, 7pm
RATTLESNAKE PRESS: FOURTH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH
featuring ANN MENEBROKER, TED FINN
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From Rattlesnake publisher Kathy Kieth: "We will mark the Snake's fourth birthday by throwing the Fourth Annual Birthday Bash at The Book Collector on Wednesday, April 9, including a buffet at 7 PM, followed by a reading at 7:30 PM. That night, there will be three history-making releases: Ann Menebroker's new chapbook (Small Crimes); Ted Finn re-emerges with a new SnakeRings SpiralChap of his poetry and art (Damn the Eternal War); and Katy Brown inaugurates her blank (well, not really) journal series for our HandyStuff department with her MUSINGS: Photos and Prompts For Capturing Creative Thought. Please join us to celebrate four years of [your] poetry with fangs!"


Saturday, April 12th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
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Come out for Midtown's Second Saturday Art Walk and drop by the bookstore!
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Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Thursday, April 17th, All Day
POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY
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The Academy of American Poets launches the first annual national "Poem in your Pocket Day" The idea is simple: select a poem and carry it with you (poem in your pocket) and unfold it with family friends and co-workers throughout the day. More details are available at their website: poets.org/pocket
- - -
Throughout the day the largest selection of Poems-For-All booklets ever made available for distribution will at the bookstore for people to take and use as part of "Poem in your Pocket Day" Other activities during the day at the bookstore are in the works to help celebrate and promote this new national tradition.


Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL
VINCENT KOBELT (Invited)
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Poems-For-All is pleased to welcome Charles Curtis Blackwell back to Sacramento. Presently a poet and performer in the Bay Area, Charles once graced the Sacramento scene with his exceptional readings. He comes with a new book of poems, or rather, two vignettes of poetry in one book: "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud and Lou Next Door." The book's publisher/editor Vincent Kobelt has also been invited to read.


Saturday, April 26th, 6pm
ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT
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Poet, writer and editor of UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS, a literary journal of Beat Generation writing, Arthur celebrates the release of his latest Novel MISFITS COUNTRY.

AND INTO MAY...

Friday, May 2nd, 7:30pm
WILLIAM WANTLING IS DEAD
featuring
KEVIN JONES
GENE BLOOM
RICHARD HANSEN
Others
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May 2nd marks the anniversary of the death of mimeo era poet William
Wantling. Poet and Wantling Scholar Kevin Jones and others will read
their favorite Wantling poems and discuss his importance and impact as
a poet.

MAR 31 | Poetry | Zen Marxist Launderettes

Monday, March 31 at 7:30pm
Sacramento Poetry Center presents
ZEN MARXIST LAUNDERETTES
Laura Ann Walton, Emily Wright, Mira Kores, Sandra Senne, Margaret Burns, Erin Doyle, Ellen Johnson, Carolyn Schneider. Host: Frank Dixon Graham
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1719 25th Street at HQ for the Arts, at 25th & R Streets. www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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LAURA ANN WALTON is a poet, dramatist and social activist. In the past decade and a half, she founded Maryhouse, a center for homeless women and The Women's Wisdom Project, an arts program for disadvantaged women. EMILY WRIGHT may or may not be a professional model. MIRA KORES is a poet from Sacramento. SANDRA SENNE is a poet from Sacramento and is currently the treasurer of the Sacramento Poetry Center. ERIN DOYLE is someone whose first name means “peace” in Celtic, whose last name originates as a form of Dowall = Dougal/Dougall, whose personal power animal is the blue tit, and whose numerology number is “8.” ELLEN JOHNSON may or may not be the president of American Atheists. CAROLYN SCHNEIDER may or may not be the author of The Ultimate Consignments and Thrift Store Guide.
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SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER: UPCOMING EVENTS
April 07: Nickole Brown, Gene Bloom
April 14: SPC High School Poetry Contest
April 19: (Special Saturday Session) John Amen, Brad Henderson
April 21: Sacramento City Ethnic Theater!
April 28: William O' Daly
May 12: Rebecca Foust, Elizabeth Krause
May 26: Chad Sweeney and Josh McKinney
June 09: F.D. Reeve, Al Garcia

MAR 28 | Film | The Six String Samurai (7pm) | Rocky Horror Picture Show (10pm)

Friday, March 28th
Movies on a Big Screen (MOBS) presents:
THE SIX STRING SAMURAI (7pm) -- $5
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (10pm) -- $6
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600 4th St, West Sacramento. That's the corner of 4th & F in West Sacramento (just over the river from downtown near the Pyramid Building). Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is mostly on folding chairs. Feel free to bring a pillow or cushion. www.shiny-object.com/screenings
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The Six-String Samurai is Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the post-apocalyptic future, who must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a bothersome orphan kid if he's ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a cannibalistic "Cleaver" family, a Windmill God and even the Russian army. Winding up at the gates of Vegas, Buddy finds himself in an epic battle with Death over the child's soul and comes to realize just what it means to be King.

"It's The Road Warrior with a rock 'n' roll beat, Buddy Holly doing his best Toshiro Mifune, a Sergio Leone gang picture set in a fantasy future, directed with the flash and panache of a Hong Kong action flick and the sleek style of a samurai film. Lance Mungia's high energy genre soup is a hoot, a low budget indie action film that embraces its limitations with a spare grunge-chic look spiced with flashy visuals, jazzy editing, and plenty of punk attitude." - Nitrate Online

And then at 10 PM (admission: $6.00): Rocky Horror!!

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Coming next Friday April 4 - the Sacramento premiere of "Honeydripper," John Sayles' newest film starring Danny Glover!! Admission for "Honeydripper" will be $7.00.

MAR 20 | Speaker | Delores Huerta

Thursday, March 20, 7:30pm
DELORES HUERTA
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Sacramento State. University Union Ballroom. www.csus.edu/union/unique. (916) 278-6997.
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Dolores Huerta, a civil rights activist for more than half a century, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, will speak as part of the University’s Women’s History Month events. Her talk will focus on U.S. immigration policy and its impact on women. Huerta’s talk is presented by the University Union UNIQUE Programs, the Women’s Resource Center, Multicultural Center, California Faculty Association, Serna Center and ASI at Sacramento State.

Huerta, who first came to national attention when she organized a widespread grape boycott in the 1960s, remains active in causes supporting civil rights, women’s rights and farmworkers’ rights. She also chairs the nonprofit Dolores Huerta foundation, which trains community organizers to assist immigrants and the poor. In recent public appearances, she has stressed the importance of intense hands-on involvement in the political process.

April | Poetry Month events at The Book Collector

Here's a rough sketch of what we're doing at the bookstore for and during Poetry Month. I'll follow up with more details.

APRIL 2008
POETRY MONTH EVENTS
AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
- - -
1008 24th Street
Sacramento, CA
Between J & K Streets
- - -
916.442.9295
richard@poems-for-all.com

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Saturday, April 5th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
- - -
Help us build the hundreds of poem booklets we want to put on the street for Poetry Month.
- - -
Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Wednesday, April 9th, 7pm
RATTLESNAKE PRESS: FOURTH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH
featuring ANN MENEBROKER, TED FINN
- - -
From Rattlesnake publisher Kathy Kieth: "We will mark the Snake’s fourth birthday by throwing the Fourth Annual Birthday Bash at The Book Collector on Wednesday, April 9, including a buffet at 7 PM, followed by a reading at 7:30 PM. That night, there will be three history-making releases: Ann Menebroker’s new chapbook (Small Crimes); Ted Finn re-emerges with a new SnakeRings SpiralChap of his poetry and art (Damn the Eternal War); and Katy Brown inaugurates her blank (well, not really) journal series for our HandyStuff department with her MUSINGS: Photos and Prompts For Capturing Creative Thought. Please join us to celebrate four years of [your] poetry with fangs!"

Friday, April 11th, 7:30pm
CORNERED: FIVE YEARS OF SN&R'S POET'S CORNER
- - -
A celebration of five years of poetry in the Sacramento News & Review. Poetry Editor Kel Munger is putting together a line-up of poets from among those who've been published in the papers' weekly Poet's Corner.

Saturday, April 12th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
- - -
Come out for Midtown's Second Saturday Art Walk and drop by the bookstore!
- - -
Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Thursday, April 17th, All Day
POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY
- - -
The Academy of American Poets launches the first annual national "Poem in your Pocket Day" The idea is simple: select a poem and carry it with you (poem in your pocket) and unfold it with family friends and co-workers throughout the day. More details are available at their website: poets.org/pocket
- - -
Throughout the day the largest selection of Poems-For-All booklets ever made available for distribution will at the bookstore for people to take and use as part of "Poem in your Pocket Day." Other activities during the day at the bookstore are in the works to help celebrate and promote this new national tradition.


Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL
VINCENT KOBELT (Invited)
- - -
Poems-For-All is pleased to welcome Charles Curtis Blackwell back to Sacramento. Presently a poet and performer in the Bay Area, Charles once graced the Sacramento scene with his exceptional readings. He comes with a new book of poems, or rather, two vignettes of poetry in one book: "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud and Lou Next Door." The book's publisher/editor Vincent Kobelt has also been invited to read.

Saturday, April 26th, 6pm
ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT
- - -
Poet, writer and editor of UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS, a literary journal of Beat Generation writing, Arthur celebrates the release of his latest Novel MISFITS COUNTRY.


AND INTO MAY...

Friday, May 2nd, 7:30pm
WILLIAM WANTLING IS DEAD
featuring
KEVIN JONES
GENE BLOOM (Invited)
RICHARD HANSEN
Others
- - -
May 2nd marks the anniversary of the death of mimeo era poet William Wantling. Poet and Wantling Scholar Kevin Jones and others will read their favorite Wantling poems and discuss his importance and impact as a poet. Poet GENE BLOOM who edited the little magazine ENTRAILS and published Wantling has been invited to attend. (I wish I had the cash to bring A.D. WINANS over from the Bay Area. His Second Coming Press put out a wonderful collection of Wantling poems...Fortunately, A.D. Winans will be reading at the bookstore in January 2009 in support of a forthcoming book to be published by Robert Grossklaus at Polymer Press.)

MAR 19 | Protests | Anti-War Demonstrations and Events in Sacramento (and beyond)

On the fifth year anniversary on the war in Iraq a list of anti-war demonstrations and events compiled by musician, journalist and friend Dan Bacher with the hope that the poets, musicians, writers and other creative souls who read this blog will add their voice and energy to ending the war in Iraq.

IN SACRAMENTO:
7:30-8:30am Demo at 3rd & J Sts. offramp, Sacramento. From here we will plan random demonstrations throughout the city, stopping at the 11:30 rally at the Capitol. Info: 916-448-7157

11:30am, 5th Anniversary Rally Against the War Iraq; North side State Capitol, L & 11th Sts, Sac, 916-448-7157; sacpeace@dcn.org

4 - 6pm, Anti-War vigil 15th & L, Sac, 916-446-5261.

4:30 - 6pm, 5 Years is Too Many: Demonstration to demand an End the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Bring signs. Howe & Fair Oaks Blvd. Sacramento, 916-481-6122.

7:15pm, CAAC Goes To The Movies: Retrospective on the 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq with Short Films. 1640 9th Avenue, FMI: 446-3304

7pm, Candlelight Peace Vigil & gathering on the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Unitarian Universalist Society, 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sac, ernestsweet@aol.com; 916-481-6122

Please join with other opponents of this war, which is driving our country into the ground, and causing so much misery for so many.

IN SAN FRANCISCO:
5 - 8pm, No business as Usual March & Rally on 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Civic Center, San Francisco. Carpools from Sacramento: 916-448-7157; sacpeace@dcn.org