Come visit the Sacramento Room to hear Josh Fernandez read from his just released book, Spare Parts and Dismemberment, from R.L. Crow Press. In recovery, Fernandez deals with his own demons. An exceptional poet, Fernandez tells it like it is (even if it means being an ass, sometimes). The book will be available [...]
Sunday, April 10 Time-Tested Hosts poet and writer Ishmael Reed who will read from and discuss his new novel Juice, a lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, JUICE! is a comi-tragedy chronicling the increased anxieties of “post-race America.”
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Poetry Unplugged. Josh Fernandez, Bill Gainer and Ann Menebroker read at Luna’s Cafe on April 14th. 8pm. Josh’s new book, Spare Parts and Dismemberment, will soon be released by R.L. Crow Publications.
From our good friend Geoffrey Neill, one of the hosts of Poetry Unplugged at Luna’s Cafe:
National Poetry Month in [...]
Saturday, March 19th, 7-9pm. Poets speak out against war with their own poems of social justice. Poets include: William O’Daly, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Francisco Alarcón, V.S. Chochezi, Joshua McKinney, Molly Fisk, Brandon Cesmat, Dennis Hock, Traci Gourdine, and Emily Wright. Music by Patrick Grizzell and Savanah Moor.
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Remember Midtown Books? On 24th Street on the corner of the alley between J and K streets, it was two stories tall. I remember well the cap wearing, bearded, sometimes irascible owner; he is my father-in-law. That bookstore embodied everything I love and hate about a used bookstore. The books were cheap. It was cramped and [...]
Weds. (3/9), 7:30pm: Rattlesnake Press presents Martha Ann Blackman’s new rattlechap, The Caring Tree, and Maybe Tomorrow, a littlesnake broadside from Carl Bernard Schwartz. The Book Collector, 1008 24th St., Sac. Free!
February. All month. All books are on sale. 25% off. The Book Collector. 1008 24th St., Sacramento. We’re open Mon. – Sat. 10am – 6pm; Sun. 11am to 4pm.
We celebrate Burns Night every year at The Book Collector. In addition to a program that pays tribute to Burns—and Scottish poetry—this year we’d also like to use the event as an opportunity to show our gratiude to all who’ve supported the bookstore through 2010. In short, we want to have a party [...]
The Media That Matters Short Film Fest returns to Sacramento with an all new 2010-2011 edition. Movies on a Big Screen annually shows this changing fest of socially-conscious shorts. The fest is compiled by Arts Engine in New York.
The shorts are all made by student and independent filmmakers, and [...]
