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Ah, how wonderful Sacramento is! Their rental car operations suck, and there can be a lot of traffic going into downtown Sacramento, but the Bikram yoga studio there is great (more on that later), and there is a cute little square with a wonderful little café there. When I arrived at the café, I kicked myself for ever having left California (I went to Berkeley for undergrad—“best years of my life” and all that). It was beautiful, sunny… there was a garden, soy milk galore, cute people of all shapes and sizes:
I got into town, sweated my ass off in Bikram (again, more later…), then booked it on over to the Sacramento Poetry Center for a lovely reading with a woman named Rebecca Morrison hosted by Tim Kahl. Tim had seen I was going to be in the Bay Area, so contacted me out of the blue to host me—lovely and generous of him; he is a great host.
Here is Rebecca (on the left) with some pre-reading audience:
Here is Tim:
Tim opened up our reading with a poem called “The Serial Bubble” (I don’t think the blogging format is going to accommodate Tim’s text, so posting a YouTube link instead). (I love the epigraph: "When the tide goes out, you can see who’s swimming naked" — Warren Buffett):
Rebecca was lovely—her work was so pure, phenomenological in the natural sense, sensual, thoughtful. Tim provided a link to some video of her reading (there is also video of me reading, but you can skip that… ☺)…
http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/2008/10/katy-lederer-and-rebecca-morrison-at.html
After the reading, we all had some wine and cheese, talked politics. I found the community in Sacramento thoughtful and wonderful—had such great conversations with folks about politics, the environment, and the economy. Here are some pictures… A great crowd! Lovely!:
This guy works as a building developer for the city, but says he mostly just helps the city tear things (crack houses, etc) down:
Lovely painter woman:
Check out the awesome t-shirt:
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