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The Sacramento Poetry Center is a nonprofit literary center that offers readings, workshops, poetry contests, publications, and lectures. The center is not affiliated with any college or university, provides most of its services for free, and also houses a library, runs an annual conference, and participates in the community with outreach and fundraising for fellow nonprofits.
Watch this video that is both a clever book promotion for The Best of McSweeney’s and a playful commentary on the demise of print. Fittingly, this clip also honors an era of film rendered obsolete by the relentless advance of technology.
This video addresses the common but debilitating abuse of language known as nominalizations, or, as Helen Sword characterizes them, zombie nouns. Animation by Bran Dougherty-Johnson.
This video explores the various compelling reasons why—from professional etiquette concerns to hiding one’s tarnished identity—some notable authors chose to write under pseudonyms.
The City of Books, as the four-story flagship store in Portland, Oregon, is known, occupies an entire city block, and carries more than one million books. Each month, the Basil Hallward Gallery (located upstairs in the Pearl Room) hosts a new art exhibit, as well as dozens of author events featuring acclaimed writers, artists, and thinkers.
Clamor (UW Bothell literary & art journal)
Essay Press (EP/MFA Book Prize, offers editorial assistantships)
The album Lonely Avenue, a collaboration between musician Ben Folds and writer Nick Hornby, will be released by Nonesuch Records on September 28. Folds and Hornby will perform at an event presented by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D.C., on October 19.
