PFA 5th Anniversary Exhibition & Readings 2/21/2006

POEMS-FOR-ALL 2001-2006 - - - Exhibition and readings to mark the 5th anniversary of the Poems-For-All Miniature chapbooks series.
All events take place at: HQ: Headquarters for the Arts located at 1719 25th Street (25th & R Streets), Sacramento CA
EXHIBITION- - - March 1st through March 31st In cooperation of HQ partner Asylum Gallery. An exhibition of the over 500 miniature booklets published in the series in the last five years.
READINGS - - -
SUNDAY MARCH 5TH 8PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS & FILMS An evening in collaboration with Kabinet Films to present a reading of poems by poets in the Poems-For-All Series along with a series of short films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featuring: ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT Unable to attend KIT KNIGHT Unable to attend FRANK ANDRICK JOAN KRUGER RACHEL SAVAGE RICHARD LOPEZ
With readings of poems by: D.A. LEVY KENNETH PATCHEN CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ARTHUR RIMBAUD W.H. AUDEN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FILMS FROM LEVYFEST: A Celebration of D.A. LEVY
In the second half of the event we will screen D.A. LEVY & THE CLEVELAND MIMEOGRAPH REVOLUTION, produced by Larry Smith's Bottom Dog Press, a DVD set of two short films. The first is an interview with ED SANDERS discussing Levy. The second, titled REMEMBERING D.A. LEVY: A READING FROM LEVYFEST 2005, features readings and reminiscenses from poets RUSSELL SALAMON, TOM (TL) KRYSS, KENT TAYLOR, INGRID SWANBERG, and Sacramento's own D.R. WAGNER. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY MARCH 11TH 8PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS Second Saturday Series [Special Edition] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featuring: DOUGLAS BLAZEK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Icon of the 60s mimeo revolution. Poet. Publisher of OLE and Open Skull.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 22ND 8PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS A reading featuring poets from the PFA series. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featuring: ANNIE MENEBROKER CRAWDAD NELSON S.V. TAYLOR DO GENTRY RACHEL HANSEN RHONY BHOPLA KIMBERLY WHITE SUSAN KELLY-DeWITT
With readings of poems by: KENNETH PATCHEN ANATOLE LUBOVICH
FRIDAY MARCH 31ST 8PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS / EXHIBIT FINALE The grand finale of a month long exhibition of the poetry and art featured in the Poems-For-All Series. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Musical peformance by J. GREENBERG - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featuring: ROBERT RODEN MICHAEL PULLEY BARBARA NOBLE GENE BLOOM MARY ZEPPA MANNY GALE BECCA COSTELLO
With readings of poems by: WILLIAM WANTLING D.A. LEVY JACK MICHELINE And songs by: JOE HILL
Gallery Hours: Saturday, March 4th, 12 to 4pm Sunday, March 5th, 12 to 9:30pm Saturday, March 11th, 12 to 9:30pm Sunday, March 12th, 12 to 4pm Saturday, March 18th, 12 to 4pm Sunday, March 19th, 12 to 4pm Wednesday, March 22nd, 6 to 9:30pm Saturday, March 25th, 12 to 4pm Sunday, March 26th, 12 to 4pm Friday, March 31st, 6 to 9:30pm
The gallery is also an active art space thatcontains events sponsored by Headquarters for theArts member organizations. You will be able to seethe Poems-For-All exhibition while attending the following events:
Sacramento Poetry Center Readings www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
Monday, March 6th, 7 to 8:30pm Monday, March 13th, 7 to 8:30pm Monday, March 20th, 7 to 8:30pm Monday, March 27th, 7 to 8:30pm
Kabinet Film Screenings www.kabinet.org - - - Sunday, March 12th, 7:30 to 9:30pm Sunday, March 19th, 7:30 to 9:30pm Sunday, March 26th, 7:30 to 9:30pm
For further information, press inquiries, etc. contact Richard Hansen, 916/442-9295,http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=richard@poems-for-all.com&YY=51097&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b
489 | Griffin 2/15/2006
387 | Cox
Radical checklist changes
Kevin Porter has been ignoring his family, friends and work in order to make the Poems-For-All website a better place to visit. New paint job, bigger chairs and... cool changes to the PFA checklist. Now you can click on some of the poem titles and the cover of the booklet will pop up in a new window. I think this is neat. Eventually, all the covers will be there. Kevin puts them up as fast I give them to him. Check back often.
Other big checklist news: it will soon be updated to reflect all the poems in the series through January 2006.
003 | Creeley on Corso
Did you ever know you were my Mentor?
Only my friend, Fluxus artist Diana Marshall [PFA #232], would think to put my name in the same sentence as Ray Johnson. Check out her eBay homage to the Poems-For-All Series here. She's my mentor, by the way, no matter what she says. A Fluxus Godus.
4A | Roque Dalton 2/13/2006
Hashish & Moonfleet 2/12/2006
This has been an exceptional Sunday for me. It started in the afternoon with an exceptional reading of Clark Ashton Smith poems by our friend Donald Sidney-Fryer, who returned to the bookstore to read Smith's epic The Hashish-Eater. It is a daunting poem for both audience and performer, but Donald has engaged these lines so many times, reading them from a long scroll which unravels slowly as he delivers the verses.
Dinner followed, with Donald, J. Greenberg, and Do Gentry; a relaxed opportunity to discuss Clark Ashton Smith (and a three volume The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith forthcoming from Hippocampus Press.)
J. excused himself early to set up for his weekly Kabinet film screening; Moonfleet, the second of four Fritz Lang screenings planned in February. I've come to rely on the Kabinet screenings as a means of expanding my film appreciation. J. has done an amazing job of presenting a broad range of interesting films in the just-under-a-year existence of the screenings. On Sunday, Feb. 26th, Lang's Metropolis, "The mother of all science fiction films," will be accompanied --live-- by the ever-evolving musical-sound sensation INSTAGON.

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