The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th Street, Modesto!
Join us on April 8 at 6:00p.m. for a great reading, and come and enjoy a great dinner too.
BEVERLY BURCH’s previous poetry collection, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004) won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Two non-fiction books on psychoanalytic theory and sexual orientation have also been published: On Intimate Terms (U. of Ill. Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). An Atlanta native, she’s lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area and has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, CA.
MURRAY SILVERSTEIN’s first collection, Any Old Wolf (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006) received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. Silverstein produced the Sixteen Rivers compact disc, Naming the Rivers (2008), and served as executive editor for the press’s anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, The Louisville Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.
Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share!
For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org