MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
BARBARA JANE REYES, OSCAR BERMEO
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1719 25th Street. 25th & R Streets,Sacramento
(916) 451-5569.www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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The Sacramento Poetry Center starts the new year with a reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo. Hosted by Arturo Mantecon, count on it to be an exciting night of powerful poetry.
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Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the SF Bay Area. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago,2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005) which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her other honors include an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asian Pacific American Journal, Chain, New American Writing, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, among others. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.
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Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, educator & literary events coordinator who now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
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Upcoming Readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center
January 14 [T]: Emmanuel Sigauke and Shevonn Blackshire
January 21[R]: Michael Cluff and Michael Garbarini
January 28 [B]: Frank Graham
February 11 [B]: Pat Grizzell and Alice Armstrong
March 3 [T]: Julia Levine and Rick Campbell
March 10 [B]: Edythe Schwartz
Host code: [T] Tim Kahl; [R] Rebecca Morrison; [B] Bob Stanley;
[A] Arturo Mantecon
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