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OPEN MIC COURTESY ETIQUETTE & SCHEDULE CHANGES
After our featured poets read, we almost always have more open mic poets wishing to read
than we can accommodate. If you secure an open mic timeslot for our poetry showcases,
but realize that you will be leaving before your reading turn, please tell us so we can give
your timeslot to someone else. Also, please check scheduled dates from time to time. We may
change a date once in a while.
We try not to restrict or to censor our poets with the exception of hate speech, vulgarity, or
offensive material. We in fact, try to encourage a broad range of subject matter. We hope that
everyone will share what they are comfortable sharing but that they will diversify their material.
SHOWCASED FEATURED POETS
4th SUNDAY 02-26-12
D.R. Wagner
D. R. Wagner has always worked on the edge of language
and was part of the early international concrete poetry
movement in the 1960's. His work has been translated
into several languages and has been frequently anthologized.
He has authored 20+ books of poetry and letters, and has
produced 50+ magazines and chapbooks. The chapbooks are
mostly in mimeograph editions. He was the founder and
editor at Niagara Press in Niagara Falls, New York, and
Runciple Spoons Press in Sacramento, California. He founded
and directed for six years, the Open Ring Galleries, a
not-for-profit corporation for the arts in Sacramento,
California. He has worked with and published poets such
as d.a. levy, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, and Jim Morrison.
In addition to his literary accomplishments, D. R. Wagner is a
singer-songwriter who writes musical compositions, a professional
musician who plays guitar and keyboards, and for thirty years
he has been a visual artist creating miniature needle-made tapestries
that have been shown on all continents with the exception of Antarctica.
His tapestries have won international awards and have appeared in
numerous publications and museum collections. His band was called
Runcible Spoon, from the Edward Lear 'Owl and the Pussycat'.
They toured the United States and England.
For twenty years D.R. Wagner has been a Lecturer in Design at the
University of California at Davis. He also teaches a Poetry by
Design honors seminar and is an artist-in-residence with
the California Arts 1 Council for Sacramento area elementary schools.
Most Recent Publications:
Where the Stars Are Kept
Published by Rattlesnake Press, Placerville, California
A Limited Means of Expression
Published by Rattlesnake Press, Placerville, California
PENTECOST
A chapbook published by Green Panda Press, Cleveland, Ohio.
Email:
drwagner@ucdavis.edu
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4th SUNDAY 03-25-12
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
VINCENT VAN GOGH
March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890
This will be a VERY SPECIAL open mic showcase without a featured poet, including both poetry and acoustic music.
Email:
Pacini.Novelist@gmail.com
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4th SUNDAY 04-22-12
Brigit Truex
Brigit Truex has settled in California’s Sierra foothills for the
past dozen years. Traveling across the country after living on both
coasts, north and south, has afforded her a multitude of experiences
and sights to draw upon for her poetry.
Her latest book, Strong as Silk (Lummox Press, 2012), was inspired
by the historic Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony which was established
in nearby Gold Hill during the late 1800s. She has woven a story around
factual and imaginary events and characters, letting them speak in both
traditional Japanese poetic forms as well as from their private journals.
Her other collections include Satuit Seasons, Of A Feather, Leaf by Leaf,
and A Counterpane Without (Rattlesnake Press). Publication credits include
Atlanta Review, Canary, Tule Review, and Manzanita. Selected anthologies
include Yellow Medicine Review, Fog and Woodsmoke, and I Was Indian.
Brigit Truex is founder of Red Fox Underground, a poetry collective in
Placerville, California. She is a member of Wordcraft Circle and of
Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
Email: cedarwoman@comcast.net
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