April 2 | frank andrick benefit

POETIC JUSTICE
A benefit for frank andrick
Monday April 2, 2007
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts
1719 25th Street
(25th & R Streets)
Doors open at 6
$10 donation

Hosted by Edie Lambert

With readings by

frank andrick
James Rollins
Becca Costello
Tim Kahl
Star Vaughn
Mario Ellis Hill
Terryl Wheat
Mary Zeppa
and more

With music by

J. Greenberg
Joel Ginsberg

Frank Andrick has devoted his life to helping other people,
from teaching poetry to troubled teenagers to promoting the
arts across our community. Now, Frank needs our help. He
was diagnosed with a range of serious health conditions
in August 2006 and at the same time learned that a paperwork
error had wiped out his Medi-Cal benefits. On April 2nd,
Friends will gather to help frank with his medical expenses.

A Sac-Franciscan experimental mythologist whose work spans
poetry, prose, and tale telling. Frank Andrick is the producer
and host of the "Pomo Literati" a two hour spoken word program
broadcast on KUSF. It features live reading performances,
contemporary recordings, and archival rarities from pre-beat to
post modern. Published in the Poems-For-All mini-chap series,
and Rattlesnake Press, he authored Soluna a collection of poetry
and prose and is working on Mandorla. He also co-hosts "Poetry
Unplugged @ Luna's" an open mic/featured reading series, the
peoples choice for Best Open Mic venue as per the Sacramento
News & Review. Currently editing a collection of works by
inspirational women authors entitled 'La Musee' de Muse',
'The Museum of Muses'. Interpolating sound, visual, and performing
arts is life for frank. He believes "there is more space inside of
us than we'll ever find outside of us." He is inspired by fire,
images, dreams, tarot cards, the Knights Templar, the Surreal,
the Symbol, the eternal & the unknown.

- - -

the poet
is a thief
of fire

by frank andrick

To
be a poet
entails more than
the writing of poems.
It demands a commitment
to live and die with great style
and an even greater sadness.
To wake up each morning
with the fever raging,
and to know that it can never
be extinguished except by
death,
and yet to be convinced that this suffering,
this sensitivity carries its own unique
reward ...
I want to be
the Hierophant
of an unapprehended
Inspiration

Interview | Judy Halebsky

An excellent interview of departing poet Judy Halebsky conducted by Frank Graham, the new poetry editor of Poetry Now.

2007_04_judy_hablesky_interview.pdf

March 29 | Kathy Kieth

Poetry Unplugged @ Luna’s
KATHY KIETH
Thursday March 29
8pm
Open mic precedes and follows the feature
No Cover; ALL Ages

Luna’s Café 1414 16th. St.
Sacramento
Art Luna
(916) 441-3931
www.lunascafe.com

event contact: frank andrick (209)727-5179 fandrickfabpub@hotmail.com

"Night of The Snake," Thursday March 29th an evening featuring Kathy Kieth, poet and editor/publisher of the Rattlesnake Press which produces a quarterly review and a steady monthly stream of chapbooks and broadsides, including SnakeRings SpiralChaps, Littlesnake broadsides, Snakelets (ages 0-12), and VYPER (ages 13-19). Kathy hosts a monthly Rattlesnake Reading Series at The Book Collector bookstore in midtown Sacramento. Hosted by frank andrick.

Copies of the latest Rattlesnake Review Spring 2007 edition (#13) will be available at Luna's on Thursday night in addition to some of the Rattlechaps of works by various artists published by Kathy Kieth via Rattlesnake Press.

Rattlesnake Press on the web: www.rattlesnakepress.com

Think Postcard Project will exhibit

An update on the Sacramento Poet Laureate's Think Postcard Project:

Remember the Think Postcard Project of 2006?

Well, it has come of age!In fact, there are many exciting developments with all of our PoetLaureate's projects. But the one that you may find of especial interest are the plannedexhibitions of Think Postcard!

We are exhibiting the postcards sent in to SMAC starting March 31 andgoing through the month of April. You will be receiving a postcard in the mail with the completeannouncement.

The exhibits will be held at La Raza/ Galeria Posada, The Asylum Gallery, Luna's Cafe and at the Galt and Isleton libraries.

We are holding an assembly 'party' to choose the groupings ofpostcards for the different venues and to insert them into clear plastic sleeves for safety anddisplay. We are looking for volunteers to help out on Saturday, March 31 from 10a to 2p, at the SMAC offices. We would love it if you could come lend a hand.Should be fun! You'll be in great company! and we'll have somerefreshments.Please let me know if you'll be able to help out.

Warm regards,
Anja Aulenbacher
Grants and Cultural Programs Coordinator Limited Term
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
2030 Del Paso Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95815-3022
www.sacculture.com
(916) 566-3986

April 4 | Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon
Meeting the Historic Challenge:War, Peace and the 2007 California Democratic Party Convention
Wednesday, April 4
7 pm
Coloma Center Auditorium
4623 T St.Sacramento, CA

Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR.org). His weekly column on media and politics, Media Beat, has been in national syndication since 1992. He has written op-ed articles on media issues for many papers, including the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Newsday, New York Times, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Baltimore Sun. His articles have also appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Jordan Times. Norman Solomon’s eleventh book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, was published in 2005. Solomon’s other books include Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored with Reese Erlich), The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media and three collections of columns co-written with Jeff Cohen -- Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News, (1997), Through the Media Looking Glass (1995) and Adventures in Medialand (1993) -- as well as The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh (1997), False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era (1994), The Power of Babble: The Politician's Dictionary of Buzzwords and Doubletalk for Every Occasion (1992), Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (co-authored with Martin A. Lee, 1990) and Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic Radiation (1982).

Goodbye Judy Halebsky

Arriving at the bookstore today; a small stack of poetry books, various authors, left there by Judy Halebsky (pictured above, in front of the poetry center, next to eyes-askanse poet Crawdad Nelson.) She leaves shortly for Japan. A pleasant, productive asset to our local poetry mix, we're happy to unburden her of books but will miss the proximity of her smile, energy and kindness.

Judy gives one final poetry reading tonight:

Tuesday (3/27), 8:30-9:30 PM: Bistro 33 in Davis presents littlesnake broadsider Judy Halebsky (with two other Squaw Valley poets, don't ask me who). Judy will be leaving us very soon for her doctoral studies in Japan, so be sure to drive over to Davis and say goodbye. (source: Kathy Kieth)

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The Loft can be an exception

"The Loft" is the kind of place that, when there's a documentary on the Midtown Sacramento D.I.Y. music scene twenty years from now, everyone that wasn't will claim they were part of the scene there. On again, off again, the Loft has been a music venue of a different kind for over a decade. Still tacked to the door are the "what" and "why" rules Scott Soriano posted years ago. "There are no good places for bands to play or to see bands in town," He writes at the end of the note, "The Loft can be an exception."

When word went out on Heckasac that Scott planned to tear down the posters and paint over the grafitti to make way for bookshelves -- The loft sits behind and above Time-Tested Books -- I decided to walk over and take pictures. Specifically, 153 pics of dubious quality (or relevance) all in some effort to capture a little bit of Midtown history. You can find them at: http://www.kodakgallery.com/poems-for-all (password: maybe)

The new True Love Cafe

There is movement in and around the building that will eventually house the new True Love Cafe on K Street (twixt 23rd and 24th Streets). I snapped this picture of in the alley behind the building on my way to the bookstore. We're looking forward to their return and miss them as neighbors when they were half a block from us on J street.

HQ | One year and it still floats!

HQ: Headquarters for the Arts celebrated its one year anniversary on Saturday (5/20). J. Greenberg (pictured above) hosted the evening which featured poets, musicians and an artist's depiction of the unfolding event. Check out the pics at http://www.kodakgallery.com/poems-for-all (password: maybe)