Hope you will join the WRITERS’CIRCLE at our reading March 11 at SPC, 7:30. An open reading follows so bring your poetry. We will also be celebrating member birthdays (including mine) with cake, bubbly and sparkling cider. I have recently published in Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry, WTF, Harlequin, and Restore/Restory: a people’s history of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. I will read an excerpt from a new novel (The Day Daddy Left) and poetry. Patricia L. Nichol and Marilyn Price were included in Late Peaches as is Mike Pickering who will be opening the show with 2 original songs. Sarah Stricker is reading new memoir and Melon Lunn new poetry.

We are happy to autograph any of the many books we've written for your bookshelf including a memoir by Diane Bader. Last but not least enjoy the energetic pen & ink water colors by Jeanie Keltner and the ceramic sculpture by Julia Connor at the Poets’ Gallery.
916-457-5584 See you there, Jennifer 

Sacramento Poetry Center/Poets Gallery,
1719 25th Street (25th between Q & R).
7:30-9pm



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