Poetry | News | Weakly | 12/7

The Rattlesnake Reading featuring Bill Gainer is not tonight (12/7) as erroneously reported by us and the News & Review but next week, Wednesday (12/14) // Though a poetry reading on the anniversary date of Pearl Harbor isn't such a bad idea. // A.D. Winans reports the appearance of white smoke from the chimney of the poetic powers that be in San Francisco indicating the selection of The City's new poet laureate. A wise choice: Jack Hirschman. // A date has been secured for a memorial for Anatole Lubovich who passed away last month after complications during heart surgery. Sunday, January 8th at 2pm at HQ: Headquarters for the Arts (25th & R, Sacramento.) // Now available at The Book Collector (TBC, 1008 24th St., Sacramento CA 95816) are two outstanding chapbooks published by Robbie Grossklaus reprinting poems by d.a. Levy (in conjunction with the recent celebration of his birthday on Nov. 30). miniConcrete ($1) features a small serving of Levy's interesting concrete poems; a taller chap ($2) features two poems Suburban Monestery Death Poem and songs for dead children in one elegant volume. These are two beautiful, well made books and, as a true tribute to the small press endeavors of Levy, are very affordable (unlike many recently offered Levy chaps.) For those outside the Sacto area, send a buck to cover shipping. // Recent departures: Arthur Winfield Knight and Kit Knight, editors of the Beat Journal Unspeakable Visions of the Individual have moved from the Sacramento area to Yerington, NV. Local poets, including Ann Menebroker, Bill Gainer, Robert Roden and Joan Kruger joined the Knights for a Last Supper farewell potluck at TBC (11/20). // Kudos to poet frank andrick who hosts the POMO Literati, a two hour radio program on KUSF in San Francisco which recently featured (11/13) an interview with and poetry reading LIVE LIVE LIVE with poet / musician / Blake-fan patti smith. frank plans to produce copies of the show for distribution. // There will be no Poems-For-All Second Saturday reading at TBC this month. Look for a full schedule of readings in 2006, including a Burns Night Tribute to the Scottish Bard, Robert Burns (01/25) // FIN