Date: 9/13/2025

Venue: All City Homes, 3401 2nd Ave., Sacramento, CA

Series: Mahogany Urban Poetry Series

Host: J. Rowe

Project: Poetry On Blast

Feature: Shawn William

Poem: Splitting Image - My Son

Notes: I found his poetry delivery style interesting. He melted each poem into his talk, and you didn’t quite know when the poem started. It became this holistic presentation of unconditional love, forgiveness, and forbearance. “Spitting Image - My Son” is a great poem about a father finding himself through loving his son.

Tags: #Sacramento, #Poetry, #Vendors

@iamshawnwilliam @mahoganyurban @rowe.writes @malikspeaks

Links:

https://www.writeaboutnowpoetry.com/shawn

https://www.facebook.com/iamshawnwilliam/mentions/

https://www.grammy.com/artists/shawn-william/54190

https://www.instagram.com/iamshawnwilliam/

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Mahogany Urban Poetry Series

2nd Saturday @ 7PM

All City Homes, 3401 2nd Ave., Sacramento, CA 

https://www.facebook.com/MahoganyUrbanPoetry

https://allcityhomes.com/

Series: Third Tuesday Poetry

Host: Ann Michaels

Poet: Cynthia Linville

Poem: Walk Walk

Venue: Twin Lotus Thai Restaurant (8345 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento)

Project: Poetry On Blast

Note: This poem is a fun one. During her set, which was full of serious subject matter, this one stood out to me because of the rhythm, tone, and images. I hope this brings a smile to your face, as it did for me when she delivered it.

Bio from the flyer: Cynthia Linville's two books of collected poems, The Lost Thing and Out of Reach, are available from Cold River Press. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as for a Best of the Net. A music aficionado with a theater background, Cynthia has received three mini-grants from Poets & Writers to perform her work in collaboration with musicians. She has taught in the English Department at Sacramento State University since 2000, and she served as Managing Editor of Convergence: an online journal of poetry and art from 2008 to 2018.

Links:

https://cynthialinville.com/

https://www.twinlotusthai.com/

Tags:

#poetry #sacramento

Poem-Song: Sleeping Giants

Poet: Diamond

Date: 8/9/2025

Venue: All City Homes (3401 2nd Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95817)

Series: Mahogany Urban Poetry Series

Project: Poetry On Blast

Tags: Poetry, Sacramento

Note: I found Diamond very talented and surprisingly spiritual for her age. This song, although not a poem, fits this project because of the venue she performed at and her use of verse.

Links:

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/malikspeaks-44783353343

https://allcityhomes.com/

Poem: Evolution of the Black Clitoris

Poet: Dyvacat

Date: 7/30/2025

Venue: Our Place (1107 Firehouse Alley, Sacramento, CA 95814)

Series: Mahogany Urban Poetry Series

Project: Poetry On Blast

Note: Dyvacat is awesome. She did something like 6 poems that night, all memorized. And they all had length. This recording is not the best because I was far away, but I cleaned it up the best I could.

"Meschery was born as Tomislav Nikolayevich Meshcheryakov in Harbin, Manchukuo. His parents were Russian immigrants who fled from the October Revolution in 1917. The Meschery family was later relocated to a Japanese internment camp near Tokyo during World War II.

After the war, Meschery and his parents emigrated to the United States. It was also in this phase of his life where his father renamed the family "Meschery" due to the anti-Communist/anti-Soviet Red Scare under Joseph McCarthy, and Tomislav Nikolayevich was renamed Thomas Nicholas, which later was abbreviated to Tom. Living in San Francisco, California, Meschery attended Lowell High School.

After graduating in 1957, he went to Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. Meschery helped Saint Mary's reach the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight in 1959. Two years later, he was chosen as a First Team All-American, and was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961." -Wikipedia

When Fannie Lou Hamer Said by Mahogany L. Brown (Read by NSAA) by NSAA 360

Points of View by Ishmael Reed (Read by NSAA) by NSAA 360

"Remembering Brother Esutosin Omowale Osunkoya (aka Charles Brunson) of Sacramento, he started the Black Panther Party (BPP) chapter in Sacramento in 1968. Sending positive energy & much love to Margo and family. Ashe!! Ashe!!" -Faye Wilson Kennedy

Omowale was an amazing person always full of life and ready to dance or drum. To think he would pass from Covid-19 is heart breaking.

http://sacobserver.com/2020/04/virus-claims-life-of-local-black-panther-party-founder/?fbclid=IwAR2PfB97ZZABGGABtt7lXQ-JhySsJ-UOow8rXaSEHqgDd4HyXY56EN7XFxk

I was lucky enough to run sound during a Black Panther panel at The Brickhouse Art Gallery in Sacramento California part of an exhibit called "SAC PANTHERS 48 ART EXHIBITION" by Milton Bowens. So I thought I should record some of the discussion on a whim, I never did anything with the recording until now. This is the raw cut of the audio no edits. Enjoy.

NSAA 360 | Covid-19 Protest in Michigan by NSAA 360

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

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