Reading and Visual Art Presentation at the E.K. McClatchy Library May 28th 6pm-7:30

Click on Pear-Autumn Garden Spirit, water color,
detail, Jennifer O'Neill Pickering
I hope you will join me and writers Sue Owens Wright, Kimberly White, JoAnn Anglin, Tim McHargue and Mike Pickering for a reading of prose and poetry and a presentation of our visual art, May 28th at the E. K. McClatchy Library. All of those in the reading have been published in the Sable and Quill and the book will be available for purchase at the event.

Keep an eye out for more readings featuring Sable and Quill participants at Hot Poetry in the Park (August 18) and at the John Natsoulas Gallery September 18.

Click on the PEAR for an art slide show! OR  scroll down. 


2122 22nd St. Sacramento 95818
Transit stop 21st  V Street Information:  http://www.saclibrary.org/Locations/Ella-K-McClatchy/




Fish, pen and ink, Mike Pickering
Street Folks, chalk pastel on paper, Jennifer O'Neill Pickering 


Charcoal on paper, JoAnn Anglin 


City Folk, collage, Kimberly White



Light Box,  mixed media, Tim McHargue




Woodpecker, pastel, Sue Owens Wright

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