What to do: Sacramento literary events this week

June 22, 2:01 PMSacramento Book Club ExaminerShelley Blanton-Stroud

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President Abraham Lincoln, AP Photo/NY Public Library, Alexander Gardner

This week's literary event topics range freely from presidential history, to 1920's Paris, to San Francisco Beat poets, to the graphic novel.  Read on for what literary minds can do every day this week in Sacramento.

1. Monday, June 22, 7:30 p.m. Poetry reading -- Julia Levine and Nancy Bodily. Sacramento Poetry Center. Levine is the author of three books of poems: Practicing for Heaven, Ask, and Ditch-Tender. She has published in many journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner and Crab Orchard Poetry Review. She lives and works in Davis as a clinical psychologist. Bodily has worked as a journalist and has recently set her sights on becoming a registered nurse. She lives in Davis, where she is  DJ for Earth Mama Mountain Music Hour on KDRT. Free event. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento 95816, (916) 979-9706.
2. Tuesday, June 23, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln. Bicentennial Exhibit Members-Only Preview Reception. The California Museum. (You can register on-line to become a member immediately.) This Library of Congress exhibit will commemorate Lincoln’s two hundredth birthday by charting Lincoln’s growth from politician to statesman, addressing his presidency’s controversies, including challenges to civil liberties and the Constitution, slavery and race, and the dissolution of the Union and the Civil War. To celebrate being the first site to host the exhibit after it leaves the Library of Congress, and the only site in the West to host it, the Museum will welcome members and donors, serving food among roving guests in period costume. Following the opening exhibit, the public can view the exhibit through August 22. Free to members. California Museum, 1020 O Street, Sacramento 95814, (916) 653-7524.
3. Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 p.m. Borders Book Club – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Join other readers to discuss this novel constructed of letters, developing the character of an English author during World War II. Snacks will be served. Free event. Borders Bookstore, 2339 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Sacramento 95825, (916) 564-0168.
4. Thursday, June 25, 8 p.m. Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged. Luna’s Cafe. There will be an open mic, before and after guest hosts Frank Andrick, Mario Ellis Hill, Geoffery Neil & B.L. Kennedy. Two dollar cover fee or one drink minimum. Luna’s Café, 1414 16th Street, Sacramento 95814, (916) 441-3931.
5. Friday, June 26, time not yet posted. Cheri. Crest Theater. Compare the book to the movie in this film adaptation of Colette’s 1920s novel about the romance between a middle-aged woman and a wealthy young man. (Rated R) General admission $8.50, senior/student/matinee $5.50. miramax.com/cheri.html Crest Theater, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, (916) 44-CREST.
6. Saturday, June 27, 8 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.  The Best Minds Of My Generation: A Birthday Tribute to Allen Ginsberg. Doors Open at 7:30pm. Hosted by BL Kennedy. Featuring D. R. Wagner, Will Staple, Pat Grizzell, Charlene Ungstad, Kathy Kieth, Robert Grossklaus, Genelle Chaconas, Lytton Bell, David Gay, with music by the Downtrodden Saints. Co-sponsored by the Sacramento Poetry Center. $5 admission. California Stage, 2509 R Street, Sacramento.
7. Sunday, June 28, 2:00 - 3:30. Book talk – Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Join me (shameless plug) and the Arden Dimick Library’s Open Book Club in discussing this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel about two Jewish-American immigrants who create The Escapist – a pivotal (invented) comic book hero, who captures the nation’s adulation, and helps the cartoonists clarify their own individual psychic conflicts. Arden Dimick Library, 891 Watt Avenue, Sacramento 95821, (916) 264-2700.