PFA 5th Anniversary Exhibition & Readings

POEMS-FOR-ALL 2001-2006
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Exhibition and readings to mark the 5th anniversary of the Poems-For-All Miniature chapbooks series.


All events take place at:
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts
located at 1719 25th Street
(25th & R Streets), Sacramento CA


EXHIBITION- - -
March 1st through March 31st
In cooperation of HQ partner Asylum Gallery. An exhibition of the over 500 miniature booklets published in the series in the last five years.


READINGS
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SUNDAY MARCH 5TH 8PM
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POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS & FILMS
An evening in collaboration with Kabinet Films to present a reading of poems by poets in the Poems-For-All Series along with a series of short films.
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Featuring:
ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT Unable to attend
KIT KNIGHT Unable to attend
FRANK ANDRICK
JOAN KRUGER
RACHEL SAVAGE
RICHARD LOPEZ

With readings of poems by:
D.A. LEVY
KENNETH PATCHEN
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
W.H. AUDEN
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FILMS FROM LEVYFEST: A Celebration of D.A. LEVY

In the second half of the event we will screen D.A. LEVY & THE CLEVELAND MIMEOGRAPH REVOLUTION, produced by Larry Smith's Bottom Dog Press, a DVD set of two short films. The first is an interview with ED SANDERS discussing Levy. The second, titled REMEMBERING D.A. LEVY: A READING FROM LEVYFEST 2005, features readings and reminiscenses from poets RUSSELL SALAMON, TOM (TL) KRYSS, KENT TAYLOR, INGRID SWANBERG, and Sacramento's own D.R. WAGNER.

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SATURDAY MARCH 11TH 8PM
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POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS
Second Saturday Series [Special Edition]
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Featuring:
DOUGLAS BLAZEK
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Icon of the 60s mimeo revolution. Poet. Publisher of OLE and Open Skull.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 22ND 8PM
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POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS
A reading featuring poets from the PFA series.
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Featuring:
ANNIE MENEBROKER
CRAWDAD NELSON
S.V. TAYLOR
DO GENTRY
RACHEL HANSEN
RHONY BHOPLA
KIMBERLY WHITE
SUSAN KELLY-DeWITT

With readings of poems by:
KENNETH PATCHEN
ANATOLE LUBOVICH

FRIDAY MARCH 31ST 8PM
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POEMS-FOR-ALL POETS / EXHIBIT FINALE
The grand finale of a month long exhibition of the poetry and art featured in the Poems-For-All Series.
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Musical peformance by J. GREENBERG
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Featuring:
ROBERT RODEN
MICHAEL PULLEY
BARBARA NOBLE
GENE BLOOM
MARY ZEPPA
MANNY GALE
BECCA COSTELLO

With readings of poems by:
WILLIAM WANTLING
D.A. LEVY
JACK MICHELINE
And songs by:
JOE HILL


Gallery Hours:
Saturday, March 4th, 12 to 4pm
Sunday, March 5th, 12 to 9:30pm
Saturday, March 11th, 12 to 9:30pm
Sunday, March 12th, 12 to 4pm
Saturday, March 18th, 12 to 4pm
Sunday, March 19th, 12 to 4pm
Wednesday, March 22nd, 6 to 9:30pm
Saturday, March 25th, 12 to 4pm
Sunday, March 26th, 12 to 4pm
Friday, March 31st, 6 to 9:30pm

The gallery is also an active art space thatcontains events sponsored by Headquarters for theArts member organizations. You will be able to seethe Poems-For-All exhibition while attending the following events:

Sacramento Poetry Center Readings
www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org

Monday, March 6th, 7 to 8:30pm
Monday, March 13th, 7 to 8:30pm
Monday, March 20th, 7 to 8:30pm
Monday, March 27th, 7 to 8:30pm

Kabinet Film Screenings
www.kabinet.org
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Sunday, March 12th, 7:30 to 9:30pm
Sunday, March 19th, 7:30 to 9:30pm
Sunday, March 26th, 7:30 to 9:30pm


For further information, press inquiries, etc. contact Richard Hansen, 916/442-9295,http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=richard@poems-for-all.com&YY=51097&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b

489 | Griffin

387 | Cox

Radical checklist changes

Kevin Porter has been ignoring his family, friends and work in order to make the Poems-For-All website a better place to visit. New paint job, bigger chairs and... cool changes to the PFA checklist. Now you can click on some of the poem titles and the cover of the booklet will pop up in a new window. I think this is neat. Eventually, all the covers will be there. Kevin puts them up as fast I give them to him. Check back often.

Other big checklist news: it will soon be updated to reflect all the poems in the series through January 2006.

003 | Creeley on Corso

Did you ever know you were my Mentor?

Only my friend, Fluxus artist Diana Marshall [PFA #232], would think to put my name in the same sentence as Ray Johnson. Check out her eBay homage to the Poems-For-All Series here. She's my mentor, by the way, no matter what she says. A Fluxus Godus.

4A | Roque Dalton

Hashish & Moonfleet

This has been an exceptional Sunday for me. It started in the afternoon with an exceptional reading of Clark Ashton Smith poems by our friend Donald Sidney-Fryer, who returned to the bookstore to read Smith's epic The Hashish-Eater. It is a daunting poem for both audience and performer, but Donald has engaged these lines so many times, reading them from a long scroll which unravels slowly as he delivers the verses.

Dinner followed, with Donald, J. Greenberg, and Do Gentry; a relaxed opportunity to discuss Clark Ashton Smith (and a three volume The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith forthcoming from Hippocampus Press.)

J. excused himself early to set up for his weekly Kabinet film screening; Moonfleet, the second of four Fritz Lang screenings planned in February. I've come to rely on the Kabinet screenings as a means of expanding my film appreciation. J. has done an amazing job of presenting a broad range of interesting films in the just-under-a-year existence of the screenings. On Sunday, Feb. 26th, Lang's Metropolis, "The mother of all science fiction films," will be accompanied --live-- by the ever-evolving musical-sound sensation INSTAGON.