City College English professors who moonlight as published poets read their poems Oct. 15 in honor of the campus’ centennial celebration.
“We just have such a wealth of talent, in terms of writers on campus,” said Albert Garcia, dean of the Language and Literature Division, whose objective for the poetry reading was to promote the literary achievements of City College professors. “Particularly in our English department, and we should be celebrating those folks.”
Among the faculty who read were English professors Jan Haag, Troy Myers, Danny Romero, Marci Selva, Tim Kahl and Jeff Knorr.
In his poem “Point Guard”, Knorr recited a story about a former student who was on the college’s basketball team but who didn’t have much interest his English class.
“I don’t often write about my students, but occasionally I do. In the past 20 years, I’ve probably written three or four poems about my students,” Knorr said, who has been the City of Sacramento poet laureate since 2013.
Knorr has authored “A Writer’s Country”; “Mooring Against the Tide”; “The River Sings”; “Standing Up to the Day”; “Keeper”; and “The Third Body”, as well as “The Color of a New Country” which will be published in spring 2017.
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“I’ve been interested in song and poetry and how these things go together,” Kahl said. “In English there’s this bifurcation between song and poetry, which simply doesn’t exist in other traditions.”
Kahl has two collections of poetry called “Possessing Yourself” and “The Century of Travel”.
One of Haag’s published work was featured in the anthology “Eat, Pray, Love Made Me Do It: Life’s Journeys Inspired by the Best Selling Memoir.”
Both Romero’s and Selva’s works have been published in books and in the Sacramento News & Review.
Another reader, Myers, finished his MFA in poetry last summer.
