57 min
Coffee & Poets #41. Rhony Bhopla & Lisa Dominguez Abraham NSAA 360 Radio
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- Society & Culture
Guest Poet:
Lisa Dominguez Abraham is the author of Coyote Logic, recently released from Blue Oak Press. She won the 2016 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest for Mata Hari Blows a Kiss and both the Bazzanella and A Room of Her Own Award literary awards from California State University, Sacramento. Her first chapbook, Low Notes, was published by Red Wings Press in 2007. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Poetry East, The Cumberland River Review, Tule Review and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, among others. In Spring 2018, she was the featured writer in Suisun Valley Review.
She is also involved in community activities involving art and poetry, participating in the “body stories” series by the Sacramento Center for Contemporary Art, based on the work of mixed-media and video artists koo kyung sook and Sandra Davis, and writing and performing “Respite” in response to Wayne Thiebaud’s “Flood Waters” as part of the Crocker Art Museum exhibition “Wayne Thiebaud: The Homecoming.” Most recently, she wrote "Disguise" to accompany painter Frank Ordaz’s "Stella" for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s “In Response: Poets & Artists in Dialogue.” The poem and painting are now a sign and mural in the Auburn, CA Central Square Art Park.
Website: https://www.lisadominguezabraham.com/
Location:
The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex
2837 36th St,
Sacramento, CA 95817
http://thebrickhouseartgallery.com/
http://coffeeandpoets.com
Sponsored by Creative Economy Pilot Project
Guest Poet:
Lisa Dominguez Abraham is the author of Coyote Logic, recently released from Blue Oak Press. She won the 2016 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest for Mata Hari Blows a Kiss and both the Bazzanella and A Room of Her Own Award literary awards from California State University, Sacramento. Her first chapbook, Low Notes, was published by Red Wings Press in 2007. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Poetry East, The Cumberland River Review, Tule Review and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, among others. In Spring 2018, she was the featured writer in Suisun Valley Review.
She is also involved in community activities involving art and poetry, participating in the “body stories” series by the Sacramento Center for Contemporary Art, based on the work of mixed-media and video artists koo kyung sook and Sandra Davis, and writing and performing “Respite” in response to Wayne Thiebaud’s “Flood Waters” as part of the Crocker Art Museum exhibition “Wayne Thiebaud: The Homecoming.” Most recently, she wrote "Disguise" to accompany painter Frank Ordaz’s "Stella" for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s “In Response: Poets & Artists in Dialogue.” The poem and painting are now a sign and mural in the Auburn, CA Central Square Art Park.
Website: https://www.lisadominguezabraham.com/
Location:
The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex
2837 36th St,
Sacramento, CA 95817
http://thebrickhouseartgallery.com/
http://coffeeandpoets.com
Sponsored by Creative Economy Pilot Project
57 min