Presents


Emerging Poets

Briony Gylgayton, Joshua Hattem, Michelle Beuttel

Plus open mic

Monday April 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street at Crossroads for the Arts
Host: Bob Stanley

Briony Gylgayton has won multiple awards for her writing, including placing second for the University of California system-wide 2010 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, and placing for both creative writing categories in the 2010 Pamela Maus Contest for Creative Writing, winning first in fiction and second in poetry. Her Creative Writing Honors Thesis, a manuscript of poetry about psychological disorders, was completed under the supervision of University of California at Davis faculty Alan Williamson, and was awarded the 2010 Elliot Gilbert Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate Honors Creative Work. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Davis in June, 2010 with a BA in English-Creative Writing and a minor in Art Studio, and will begin her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in August, 2011.

Briony works as the head of public relations for the Poetry Night Reading Series, a twice-monthly local Davis poetry reading. She was for two years the Senior Poetry Editor for UC Davis’s official literary magazine, Nameless Magazine, facilitating workshops, critiquing submissions, and performing her poetry at quarterly poetry readings; she currently works as their web designer.  When not writing, Briony works as a personal assistant for various UC Davis professors and lecturers from the English department and University Writing Program, including poet Andy Jones. She is also the web designer for personal development company Eager Mondays, which specializes in creating websites and publicity programs for poets and writers.

Castration Quadrille
Castration Quadrille

Triangle of orange tongued
turtle’s open mouth snapping,
Thick neck’s strands like those raised on
humans under pressure,
The hackles and two tiny flat nostrils
and triangle eyes squeeze out
a timid sound:
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you
Won’t you join the retreat?
The lobsters eagerly advance;
the mock turtle eagerly retreats.

The turtle is thick in his shell. Soup dribbles
from the sides of his sharp mouth.

There is another shore,
which pulls up snug under the blanket of your abdomen.
The turtle, snuck up inside like buds retreating
back under, the tendrils furling
petals curling and sinking,
He slinks inside his skin,
up under your
turtle shell flesh. The further off from
the nearer is to.


Coming Events at SPC and Elsewhere:

All events are at Sacramento Poetry Center at 7:30 PM unless noted otherwise. Host name in brackets.

April 6 [Wed.] Poets Celebrate Baseball [Nine women read poems for and about baseball. Two guys on the bench vainly attempt to control the tempo of the game. Errors ensue. Runs score. The center does not hold.] • featuring Viola Weinberg, JoAnn Anglin, Peggy Kincaid, Ann Menebroker, Ann Conradsen, Sandy Thomas, Allegra Silberstein, Martha ann Blackman, Trina Drotar and more. Hosted by Bob Stanley (and Tim Kahl). Bring your baseball poem for open mic! at the Sacramento Room, Central Library, 828 I Street, 6 PM
April 8 and 9: SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER ANNUAL CONFERENCE with K. Silem Mohammad, Jim Powell, Dean Rader, Melissa Morphew, and Julia Connor
April 10 [Sun.] Ishmael Reed reads and discusses his new novel Juice. Time Tested Books—1114 21st Street at 12:00 noon, free
April 11 [Emmanuel Sigauke]: Greg Glazner and Michael Spring
April 14 [Thurs.] LitFix at the Crocker Art Museum [216 O Street Sacramento, CA 95814] 6 to 9 PM.
April 18 [Theresa McCourt and Linda Collins]: Tule Review Reading
April 21 [Mary Zeppa and Lawrence Dinkins] Brown Bag Poetry at the Central Library, 828 I Street, 12 noon
April 22 [Fri. Bob Stanley, host] Special Friday reading at SPC features writers from Mira Loma High School
April 25 [Tim Kahl]: Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore
April 29 [Valerie Fioravanti—Stories on Stage (Fri.)]: Stories from The Farallon Review
April 30 [Trina Drotar] (Saturday): Paul Fericano and Ann Menebroker in a tag-team reading for National Poetry Month

Poets Gallery [April]: Solano College with Janine Whitesell

May 1 {Sunday}[Tim Kahl] The Elizabeth Bishop Project “Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker” (Joelle Biele)
May 2 [Bob Stanley]: Dana Levin cancelled
May 9 [Emmanuel Sigauke]: Moon Mist Valley Anthology Collection of Poetry and Art
May 16 [Rebecca Moos]: [7 PM — Hot Poetry in the Park] Vincent Kobelt chapbook release party, accompaniment by Fo’shang.
May 19 [Mary Zeppa and Lawrence Dinkins] Brown Bag Poetry at the Central Library, 828 I Street, 12 noon
May 23 [Tim Kahl]: Carol Frith and LaVerne Frith
May 27 [[Valerie Fioravanti—Stories on Stage (Fri.)]:]: Sacramento News and Review‘s Flash Fiction Contest winners.
May 30 [Frank Graham]: