MONDAY, FEB 4, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN & EVE WEST BESSIER
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The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets. (916) 442-9295. www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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PLEASE NOTE THE TEMPORARY LOCATION CHANGE. SPC events typically happen at their location at 25th & R Streets, inside HQ: Headquarters for the Arts.
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Francisco X. Alarcón is an acclaimed poet and educator, author of ten volumes of poetry. Alarcón is the recipient of 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize. In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA). He was one of the three finalists nominated for the state poet laureate of California. Alarcón was also awarded the 1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal. He also received 2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships, 1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
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Alarcón's most recent books are Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 2001) and From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002). He currently teaches at the University of California, Davis.
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Eve West Bessier is a author of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in Davis, California for the past two decades. She currently works as a Certified Life Coach and Vocal Coach, and teaches writing workshops and residencies. She worked for The University of California, Davis for eighteen years in educational research, program development and evaluation. She holds a Master of Education from UC Davis and has done graduate course work in English and creative writing at California State University, Sacramento. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
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She is a performing jazz vocalist, a visual artist and a promoter of community arts programs. She has received several literary awards including The Kathryn Hohlwein (2000), First Place for Poetry in The California Focus on Writers Contest (2000), and Second Place in the Sacramento News & Review's Short Story Contest (2001). Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003.. She has two chapbooks, Roots Music and Splash published by dPress, Sebastopol, 2002 and 2003.
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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
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MONDAY, FEB 18, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE & HISTORY MONTH READING
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Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Streets, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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Hosted by: Indigo Moor and Khiry Malik Moore. Headliners include: Emmanuel Sigauke, Dawn Dibartolo, Mario Ellis Hill, Terry Moore and Supanova.
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