Video

Kim Addonizio

• plays a Deford Bailey Medley [2:25]
• plays "In New Jerusalem" [2:15]
• reads "The Matter" [3:43]
• "Muse" [1:04]

Carlos Alcala

• reads "Los Àrboles Son Poetas"/"Trees Are Poets" [1:26]

John Amen

• "Hiding" [2:44]
• Portraits of Mary #12 and #13 [4:47]

Rosalie Amer

• reading Mahmoud Darwish's "Two Olive Trees" [1:26]

Frank Andrick

• "I Love You, But I've Chosen Darkness" [2:35]
• "Pensées" [2:02]
• "Sativa, A Rose By No Other Name" [1:34]

Ed Bearden

• "Remembering" [2:33]

Jan Beatty

• "After Being Fired from the All-Night Greek Diner" [1:29]
• "A Waitress's Instructions on Tipping" [3:55]
• "I Saw One of Blake's Angels" [4:33]
• "The Phenomenology of Sex" [1:52]
• "Red Sugar" [2:54]
• "Shooter" [3:03]

Dan Bellm

• "Sacrifice: Birdland 1954" [2:11]
• "The Portal" [1:52]

Jasper Bernes

• "34 Parking Lots" [7:10]
• "Poem (Susan Sontag Dies So Valerie Plame Could Live)" [1:52]

James BlueWolf

• "Terminal" [1:40]

Nancy Bodily

• "Baptism" [1:40]
• "Summer Job at Al's Drive-In" [1:16]

Brad Buchanan

• "From a Line by James Joyce" [3:02]

Jeffrey Callison

• reads "The Anxious Pooh Song" by A.A. Milne [1:15]

Stuart Livingston Canton

• "I Didn't See Allen Ginsberg at the Supermarket" [4:19]

Brandon Cesmat

• "Hymn of Enough" [4:19]
• "Park" [4:02]

Rod Clark

• "Ballade" [1:43]

Joshua Clover

• "Narrating a Library Story" [8:56]
• "Return To Work at the Wonder Factory" [13:44]
• "Stop It With Your Strategies" [1:40]
• "This is a Goodbye Kiss, You Dog [4:45]
• "Years of Analysis for a Day of Synthesis" [5:37]

Julia Connor

• "Inside the House of Want" [3:22]
• "A Theory of Snow" [2:16]
• "The Principle of a Pinhole Camera" [1:57]

Lucy Corin

• "Recent Apocalypses" [8:48]

Kathryn Cowles

• "Interview" [2:00]
• "Requiem in Five Parts" [2:24]
• "A Vision" [0:37]

James DenBoer

• "Autometer" [2:56]
• "On Being a Discourteous Poet" [1:54]
• "Untitled [Kindling]" [0:57]
• "Were You There" [2:09]

Camille Dungy

• "It Is" [2:49]
• "The Preachers Eat Out" [1:31]
• "Requiem" [2:11]

Terry Ehret

• "Cupid and Psyche in the City of Light" [3:23]
• "Lost Body" [3:05]
• "The World in Need of Braiding" [2:31]
• "What It's About" (with Caitlin Ehret Moe) [5:23]

Robin Ekiss

• "Bones of August" [9:50]
• "Elegy For My Father, Not Yet Dead" [1:13]
• "First Birthday" [1:06]
• "The Opposite of the Body" [2:49]

Josh Fernandez

• Josh Fernandez—"Brookline, MA, Grade 2" [0:38]

Rebecca Foust

• "Crickets at Lakemont Park" [1:44]
• "Perennial" [1:03]
• "Water Burial" [0:41]

Dobby Gibson

• "Fortune" [1:47]
• "Mercy" [1:33]
• "Vertical Hold" [1:41]

Daniel Grandbois

• "The Breast" [0:30]
• "Broccoli" [0:45]
• "The Fight" [1:45]
• "The Three Cranes" [1:55]
• "The Yarn" [1:13]

Patrick Grizzell

• "Erasing" [0:30]

Tom Goff

• Left Hand [2:47]
• What Scent [3:05]

Frank Graham

• reading Mahmoud Darwish's "Passport" [1:28]

Kate Greenstreet

• excerpts from "56 Days" [4:36]
• "The Giant Takes us Down" (pg. 33 from The Last Four Things) [1:45]
• "In Calling, Get Ready" (pg. 52 from The Last Four Things) [1:12]

Matt Hart and Dobby Gibson

• "Late Make-Up Years and Decline" [1:19]

Matt Hart

• "History Lesson" [4:58]
• "Revolutions per Minute" [1:59]

Noah "Supanova" Hayes

• "Untitled Monlogue" [3:40]

Brad Henderson

• "Western Movies" [1:13]

Lee Herrick

• "Freedom" [1:02]
• "My California" [2:31]
• "Raison d'être" [3:15]
• In the Tower District, Fresno [2:35]

Katherine Hohlwein

• "Wise Guys" [1:13]

Chritina Hutchins

• "September, Merced River" [0:56]

Dorine Jennette

• "The Hornet Year" [4:51]
• "Interview with the Rescue Crew" [4:05]
• "In the Smithy" [1:38]
• "We Lie Down at Last" [1:58]

Troy Jollimore

• "The Solipsist" [2:11]
• "Spam Cento" [2:50]
• "Tom Thomson Indoors" [1:09]

Soren Kahl

• reading Mahmoud Darwish's "Psalm Three" [0:52]

Tim Kahl

• "Bear and Bull" [15:54]
• "Dead Air" [3:03]
• "Fecal Diagnostics" [2:38]
• "Fejervary" [5:23]
• "Hominid Love Letter" [4:37]
• reads "It Was a Morning in September" Carlos Drummond de Andrade [4:03]
• "Junk Food Weekend" (with Soren and Reiner Kahl) [4:03]
• "Mail Order Doll" [3:14]
• "Ronnie Boy" [1:50]
• "Stigmergy" [5:13]
• "The Comfort Inn" [3:16]
• "The Exit Tamer" [4:59]
• "The Land Of Opportunity" [8:38]
• "The Little Fool" [15:42]
• "The Serial Bubble" [6:25]
• "Survival of the Fittest in Rio Vista" [3:44]

Susan Kelly-DeWitt

• "Gatherer's Alphabet" [4:54]
• "Insomniac's ABC" [1:41]
• "Morro Bay Sketch" [1:11]
• Poem to Exorcise Sorrow" [1:44]
• "Salmon" [1:38]
• "Tabletop Zen Garden: Eight Stones" [1:24]
• "Three Nights" [1:20]
• "Thumbnail Sketch" [1:31]

Jeff Knorr

• "Christmas and the Love You Never Saw Coming" [3:28]
• "Openings" [2:05]

Libby Kovacs

• selections from Liberty's Quest [1:40]

Penelope La Montagne

• "Rufous" [1:12]
• "Summer Rain" [1:23]

Meredith Laskow

• "Farm Woman" [1:50]

Katy Lederer

• The Heaven-Sent Leaf [1:50]
• Me, A Brainworker [1:11]
• Parable of Times Square [2:40]

Mari L'Esperance

• "The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter" [2:15]
• "Finding My Mother" [2:03]
• "Grief is Deep Green" [1:52]

Julia Levine

• "Poem Ending with an Unanswered Question" [1:53]
• "Vigil in Cherry Season" [3:45]
• "We Sit in a Bleached Rowboat" [2:12]

Art Mantecon

• Introduction for James DenBoer [1:53]

Joshua McKinney

• "Glory" [6:01]
• "Ophidian" [1:04]
• "Prayer for my Daughter" [1:06]

Michael Medrano

• "Brown Being" [1:43]
• "The City Outside My Ear" [0:52]
• "Ode to My Self" [1:21]
• "Villanelle" [1:01]

Ann Menebroker

• A Variation on Impulse [1:20]

Tom Miner

• reads "In the Dark" by Ben Hiatt [1:11]

Rebecca Morrison

• Incandescent [4:58]

Camille Norton

• The Secret Diary of William Byrd by Gertrude Stein [4:03]

William O' Daly

• reading Mahmoud Darwish's "Drought" [2:47]
• reading Pablo Neruda's "Emptiness" [2:26]
• reading Pablo Neruda's "The Latecomer" [1:24]
• reading from Pablo Neruda's The Book of Questions [1:39]
• reading Pablo Neruda's "The Wind" [0:54]

Lori Ostlund

• "All Boy" [33:12]

Sam Pierstorff

• "It Just Happened" [1:04]

Connie Post

• "Fire Season" [1:04]
• "Bridge Collapses Into the Mississippi, STAR TRIBUNE, Aug. 1, 2007" [1:07]

D. A. Powell

• "central valley" [2:32]
• "courthouse steps" [4:27]
• "crematorium at sierra view cemetery next to the high school" [2:38]
• "hereafter" [1:17]
• the kiwi comes to gridley california [1:43]

Keith Ratzlaff

• "Angel in the Making" [3:41]
• "Dill" [3:12]
• "Turn" [5:15]
• "The Strugle Between Plenty and Thankfulness" [1:16]

Carmela Ruby

• reading Mahmoud Darwish's "Here the Birds' Journey Ends" [2:23]

Mary Rudge

• "A Blessing" [2:12]

Dennis Schmitz

• from "Eclogues" [1:47]

Robert Shelby

• "My Dad Read a Lot" [1:17]

Gary Short

• Flight or Invisibility [2:54]
• Gathering [1:41]
• Teaching Poettry to 3rd Graders [3:33]

Janet Smith

• "A Coffee House in St. Helena, CA" [2:07]

Richard Spilman

• "Monday Morning Snow" [2:29]
• "The Idea of Order at Stinson Beach" [7:06]
• "Memory" [1:18]

Kevin Patrick Sullivan

• "Ambassador" [4:53]
• "The Space Between Things" [0:55]

Gillian Wegener

• Funderwood [2:31]
• In a Rapidly Expanding City [1:48]

Meg Withers

• reading from The Book of Denial in The Communion of Saints [7:39]

Dennis Schmitz

• from "Eclogues" [1:47]

Zaid Shlah

• reading from Mahmoud Darwish's Memory For Forgetfulness [6:52]

Brian Teare

• "Emerson Susquehanna" [6:44]
• "Long After Hopkins" [2:05]

Brian Turner

• "Ajal" [1:44]
• "Discotheque" [4:20]
• "Here, Bullet" [4:06]

Al Young

• "Conjugal Visits" [4:13]

Matthew Zapruder

• "After Reading Tu Fu, I Emerge from a Cloud of Falseness" [2:19]
• "April Snow" [2:05]
• "Tonight You'll Be Able" [2:34]

Mary Zeppa

• "Brussels Sprout Oglers at the Farmers Market" [1:05]
• "Luminaria" [2:32]
• "Too Many Jars God Knows Baby Blues" [2:49]

Stan Zumbiel

• "After a Long Wait, Taking a Shit in the Modern Times Bookstore" [1:13]

 

Audio

A brief discussion about the origins of the Sacramento Poetry Center with Theresa Vinciguerra, Mary Zeppa and Patrick Grizzell on Capital Public Radio's Insight [discussion starts 2/3 of the way through]

 

Samina Ali

• Madras on Rainy Days [12:42]

John Amen

• Narcissism [2:24]

David Alpaugh

• Deconstruction [2:42]
• Losing Control of the Toad [2:18]
• Sweet Nothing [3:13]

Kim Barnes

• an excerpt from her memoir Hungry for the World [37:05]

Oscar Bermeo

• Restoration No. 6 [1:12]
• This Wednesday [1:01]

Gene Bloom

• A Day at the Races [2:24]

Nickole Brown

• 1979 [3:46]
• How to Forgive [1:33]

Rick Campbell

• Imaginary Numbers [3:30]
• Verbs for Armadillos [4:01]

Brandon Cesmat

• Ice Drum [3:01]
• Lightning, All Directions [1:19]
• Song of Enough [4:09]
• Where Was Fidel When I Needed Him [2:22]

Joshua Clover

• Poem [2:28]

Julia Connor

• At Tommy Dollard's House [2:05]
• Canto for the Birds [4:30]
• One February Eve on the Six 'o Clock News [2:58]
• The Visiting Room [2:39]

Nguyen Do

• Unlucky Days {Vietnamese/English} [2:14]

Forrest Gander

• Background Check [1:41]
• Interval [2:58]
• Ligature [2:32]
• The Night by Jaime Saenz [2:25]

Peter Grandbois

• Wait Your Turn [17:04]

Gerald Haslam

• Mal de Ojo [12:35]

Brad Henderson

• Mr. Yippy I-Oh [1:39]
• Secret Cowboy at the Raw Bar [2:19]
• Uncle Larry [3:03]

Paul Hoover

• "The Smell of Rain" by Hoang Hung [1:35]

Paul Hoover and Nguyen Do

• "Headache" by Nguyen Do {Vietnamese/English} [1:39]
• "Untitled [Where do the stairs lead us]" by Hoang Hung {Vietnamese/English} [1:43]

Andy Jones

• Functional Family
• The Time of the Rubber Duck

Tim Kahl

• Yarrow [2:52]
• Ohrwurm [4:06]

Jeff Knorr

• Lesson in Love and Evolution off of Highway 99 [2:53]
• Morning Swim [2:11]

Julia Levine

• First Duet [1:43]
• After Rain [1:48]

Sandra McPherson

• The Fox [3:03]

Indigo Moor

• Tinder and Ethos [2:54]
• Another Man's Bed [2:17]

Ander Monson

• Spontaneous Essay With No Particular Authorship No. 1 [1:55]
• Spontaneous Essay With No Particular Authorship No. 2 [3:28]

Richard Jeffrey Newman

• Because [1:04]
• The Silence of Men [0:59]

Camille Norton

• Aperture [3:26]
• Corruption [4:00]
• Napoleon's Boots and Dante's Body [4:13]
• Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox, Babe [3:28]

Chris Ransick

• Death Suite

Bin Ramke

• The Seven Manners of Loving [3:49]

Barbara Jane Reyes

• plasa del burguesía americana/iglesia de los imigrantes pobres [1:00]
• calle de comidas exóticas [1:47]
• The Bamboo's Insomnia [0:21]
• Polyglot Incantation [1:02]

Doug Rice

• On the Perils of Metaphor in Pittsburgh

Matthew Schmeer

• 1-800
• Waiting

Victor Schnickelfritz

• Wonder [5:15]

Zaid Shlah

• Afternoon's Confession [4:21]
• selections from Taqsim [2:15]

Eleni Sikelianos

• Untitled [2:08]

Ricardo Sternberg

• Supply and Demand [1:46]
• The Pelican in the Wilderness [3:01]
• Two Wings [1:04]

Joe Wenderoth

• Letters to Wendy's [5:39]

Alan Williamson

• Empty Sky [7:16]
• Fantasia on a Medieval Latin Poem [3:09]

Robert Wrigley

• About Language [3:11]
• Do You Love Me? [1:42]
• Kissing a Horse [0:59]
• Moonlight: Chickens on the Road [5:04]
• Mouth [2:03]
• Progress [3:48]
• Sweetbreads [3:17]

Stephen Yenser

• Helen's Zen [4:31]
• Love Knot [0:38]

Al Young

• Brownie Eyes [3:38]
• In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing [4:42]
• Lost Passport Blues [2:52]
• What You See Isn't All You Get [6:18]
• You Do All This For Love [1:36]