Literary Arts

Literary Arts

SCA presents poetry readings, contests, performances and a wide range of other activities for poets and writers, both adults and children.

This summer - June & July - we will present: "Bibliophoria - Celebrate Book Arts!"

What is a book? Where is its future? How does technology shape our relationship to words and images, thinking and imagining, ideas and culture?

Bibliophoria—Celebrate Books Arts! explores these questions and more in two months of events focused on book arts—from traditional bookmaking to contemporary artistry and new technology. For more information: Bibliophoria.com

 

WordTemple Poetry Series at SCA

Word Temple is Sonoma County's first long-term, ongoing poetry reading series.  Founded and hosted by poet Katherine Hastings, the series kicked off  in February of 2006 with readings by Jane Hirshfield and David St. John to a standing-room only audience. Also, the first ten minutes of each evening is devoted to a local poet with a good body of work who has not yet published a book. For information on all upcoming readings, visit http://www.wordtemple.com

March 24: Julie Rogers, David Meltzer, Gregory Randall

A dual milestone in City Lights history, David Meltzer’s When I was a Poet is volume 60 of the Pocket Poets Series as well as their first book of poems by this renowned author. At age 11, Meltzer began his literary career during the Beat heyday of San Francisco. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including No Eyes: Lester Young; Beat Thing; and David’s Copy, among others. He has edited numerous anthologies such as Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz and San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets. Meltzer has been performing in and around the Bay Area with his wife, poet Julie Rogers. In November 2011 he received the SF Bay Guardian’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Julie Rogers is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, and in 2007 her Buddhist hospice manual, Instructions for the Transitional State, was published by Vimala. Her book of poems, House of the Unexpected is forthcoming from Wild Ocean Press. Her poems have been published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies such as Poets Against the War and, most recently, Beatitude — Golden Anniversary 1959 – 2009.

Gregory Randall is the author of four chapbooks including Double Happiness, selected by Mark Doty for the 5th Annual Camber Press Chapbook Award; A Room in the Country (Pudding House Press); Uncommon Refrains (The Lives You Touch Publications) and Blue Water Views (Finishing Line). He is a recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a finalist for the 2010 Sixteen Rivers Chapbook Contest as well as the 2008 White Pine Press book award and the 2006 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
Saturday, March 24, 7pm (doors open 6:30).

More information: wordtemple.com