October’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on Tuesday, October 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Jim Beggs.

Andrena Zawinski was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA but has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home since 2000. Her latest collection of poetry is Landings. She has two previous collections: Something About (a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award) and Traveling in Reflected Light (a Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize). Her poetry has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. She is also Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.

Jim Beggs has only written perhaps seven poems, but he has written about a poet–his book on Henry Reed (“Naming of Parts”)–and he has set a dozen familiar poems to music or matched them to songs we all know and love.

September’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on September 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Erica Goss and Ed Coletti.

Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court (2014, Pushpen Press) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2012, Finishing Line Press) Her latest poetry collection, Wild Place, won the 2016 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. Widely published, Erica was the host of Word to Word, a Show About Poetry, on KCAT Cable TV in Los Gatos, and wrote The Third Form, a column about video poetry, for Connotation Press. She is the co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls. Erica lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches classes in poetry and video.

Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player.  Recent poems  have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline.  Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015).  Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.” He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California.

Join us for a great reading this Tuesday, August 8 at the Barkin’ Dog in downtown Modesto at 6:00. This month’s poets are Modesto’s own Gordon Preston and William O’Daly.

William O’Daly has translated eight books of poetry by Pablo Neruda, all published with Copper Canyon Press. He’ll publish his ninth book of Neruda’s poetry, Book of Twilight, with Copper Canyon in October, 2017. His collection of poems, Water Ways, was published in 2017, and his homage to Neruda, The Road to Isla Negra, in 2015, both by Folded Word Press.

Gordon Preston has appeared in Cutbank, Five Points, Miramar, Missouri Review, and Rattle. He is a founding member of MoSt, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. His newest publication is What Morning Brings, a mini-chapbook from Tiger’s Eye Press Infinities.