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Verse on the Vine: Love & Lust Times Three

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Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Love & Lust Times Three

As cooler weather approaches, we’re heating things up a bit.

Breathe in the sensual poetry of these three women known as “Poetica Erotica.” Cynthia Linville, Lytton Bell and Shawn Aveningo have been sharing the stories of love, lust, and naughty humor throughout Northern California.

Come enjoy musings that stir the soul & the libido.

Verse on the Vine f. Brigit Truex & Dave Boles

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Wednesday, Sept 12, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Double Feature
Brigit Truex & Dave Boles

Brigit Truex has lived in the four quarters of the States since beginning her writing career. In each locale she has also established workshops to help others hone their prose and poetry as well, but her primary focus is on poetry. Her mixed ethnic background (French Canadian-Abenak/Cree and Irish) has been a theme she continues to explore in her work, approaching it from various angles. She has been published in various international literary journals and anthologies. Her latest book, Strong as Silk: The Story of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony, was just released in 2012 by Lummox Press. She is a board member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

Dave Boles (bodhi), has worked as an itinerant Publisher, Writer and Designer since 1981 in a wide variety of positions. Founder of the magazine Primal Urge, he also created The Sacramento Free Press, Cruisin’ Magazine, Foothill Focus, Neural Impulse Publications, Cold River Press and Bodhidharma Publishing. His publications, editorials, writing, graphic design and artwork have won numerous awards in a thirty plus year career in publishing.

Verse on the Vine f. Lytton Bell

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Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Popular Poet: Lytton Bell

Lytton’s poetry resonates with audiences everywhere, her stories providing a feast of emotion with a dose of humor sprinkled in for flavor. She has a very special show planned for us, covering the journey of life: childbirth and motherhood, growing up, exploring the body, exploring sexuality, love, spirituality, marriage, the working world, heartbreak, divorce, writing, aging and death.

Lytton Bell has published three books, won five poetry contests and performed at many Northern California venues. Her work has appeared in over three dozen publications. Lytton’s latest book Nectar can be found on Amazon.com. She is a proud founding member of the poetry performance troupe Poetica Erotica. Ms. Bell earned a poetry scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1988 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. She is a civil servant by day.

Verse on the Vine f. Telemachos Greanias

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

A Night of Poetry & Humor with Telemachos Greanias

Dr. Telemachos Greanias is psychologist, researcher, author, and lecturer.  His work in the exploration of the human entity is effortlessly woven into his poetry.  Upon reading his book “A Naked Greek” (originally published in 1972), we are taken on a journey of the human spirit and gently nudged to look inside our universal truths and perhaps ask ourselves the difficult questions in life.

Dr. Greanias has shared his poetry and stories with audiences at universities in Chicago and Northern California as well as more intimate venues of the Greater Sacramento Area.  His articles and poetry have appeared in countless publications. His lifework is driven by “intellectual curiosity, the need to know, and wanting to serve, propelling [his] search for [him]self.”

Verse on the Vine f. Jack Donaldson

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

SPECIAL FUNDRAISER SHOW FOR SACRAMENTO BALLET

Our featured performer for June is Jack Donaldson, sharing not only his poetry, but his music as well. Jack Donaldson is by profession a Registered Nurse, by heart a poet, essayist, and writer of lyrics and prose. His works are influenced by quantum physics, a lust for life, and the irony of the arrogance of man. Weaving the spoken word with guitar accompaniment he hopes to bring to the audience a pleasurable experience of cognitive contemplation and visceral harmony.

It is Mr. Donaldson’s habit to generously design limited edition books for his shows and give copies to the attendees for donations to a selected charity. For this show, The Sacramento Ballet will be the recipient of all proceeds he collects at the show.

Verse on the Vine: SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE FOR MAY

Two dynamic and talented ladies bring their poetry to Folsom. Patricia Hickerson, whose colorful life stories are unveiled with such provocativeness, she will have everyone on the edge of their seat craving her next line and the equally mesmerizing Allegra Silberstein, whose graceful, lyrical verse and contribution to our poetic world made her the obvious choice for the first ever Poet Laureate of Davis, CA.

Verse on the Vine f. Cynthia Linville

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Cynthia Linville

We’re proud to announce that our featured poet for April 11th is Cynthia Linville. Cynthia teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and frequently hosts and reads at poetry events both on her own and with Poetica Erotica. Her book of collected poems, The Lost Thing, is forthcoming from Cold River Press. A music aficionado with a theater background, she is usually out and about supporting the arts in Sacramento and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Verse on the Vine f. Bob Stanley

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

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Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Sacramento Poet Laureate, Bob Stanley

We’re proud to announce that our featured poet for March is Bob Stanley, Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Bob Stanley hosts readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center, at Sacramento public libraries, and many venues in the Capital area. His poetry has won numerous awards, including the California Focus on Writers prize in 2006. Bob edited the anthology Sometimes in the Open, and published a chapbook, Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger, in 2009. He was named Sacramento Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012. His second chapbook, Eleven Blue Strings, will be published in 2012.