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Second Tuesday Poetry featuring George Higgins and Rick Bursky
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to welcome poets George Higgins and Rick Bursky on Tuesday, December 14, 2021. Register in advance for this meeting: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k6saw. Sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets: https://forms.gle/vYexC9AiS7d7Cgeo7. Hosted by Stella Beratlis.
George Higgins’s book, There There, was published by Kelsay Books/White Violet Press. He has been published in Best American Poetry and more recently in Prairie Schooner and Catamaran.
Rick Bursky’s most recent book, Let’s Become a Ghost Story, is out from BOA Editions. His previous book, I’m No Longer Troubled by The Extravagance, is also from BOA Editions. He teaches poetry for The Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension.
Books Shared at Coffee, Tea, and Poetry
The Park John Freeman
Simply to Know its Name Robert Aquinas McNally
Felon Reginald Betts
Everyday Mojo Songs of the Earth Yusef Komunyakaa
Pig Dreams: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia Denise Levertov
The Collected Poems, 1965-2019 Lucille Clifton
The Really Really Short Poems A.R. Ammons
100 Selected Poems e.e.cummings
The Blue Estuaries Louise Bogan
Selected Poems Czelaw Milosz
Buffalo Yoga Charles Wright
Deep Gossip Sidney Wade
Where Shall I Wander? John Ashbery
Tattoos Francisco Alarcón
Body Mutinies Lucia Perillo
Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood
Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something Indigo Moor
Incedendiary Art Patricia Smith
A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving Katie Farris
If We Had a Lemon,
We’d Throw It and Call It the Sun Christopher Citro
Glossary of Unsaid Terms Victoria Flanagan
Shrapnel Maps Philip Metres
Forest Primeval Vievee Francis
Earthly Delights Troy Jollimore
Yellow Rain Mai der Vang
The Bell and the Blackbird David Whyte
The Road to Isla Negra William O’Daly
The World is God’s Language Dane Cervine
Falling in Silence Jatuh Bisu
A Prince Albert Wind Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Collected Works Lorine Niedecker
Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Joy Harjo
American Sunrise Joy Harjo
Hawk Parable Tyler Mills
Tongue Lyre Tyler Mills
Dear All Maggie Anderson
Dialogues with Rising Tides Kelli Russell Agodon
Heaven Beneath Anne Marie Macari
The Bastard and the Bishop Gerald Fleming
Post-Mortem Heather Altfeld
Ragged Eden Michael Meyerhofer
Hundred-Year Wave Rachel Richardson
Foxlogic Fireweed Jennifer K. Sweeney
Ordinary Psalms Julie B. Levine
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris
When My Brother Was an Aztec Natalie Diaz
Hurdy-Gurdy Tim Seibles
The Carrying Ada Limón
Poetry Book Discussion: Laure-Ann Bosselaar’s THESE MANY ROOMS
“Think of it: the worlds in this world. “ L.A. Bosselaar
Come join us for conservation about Laure-Anne Bosselaar ‘s most recent book of poetry, These Many Rooms. There will be readings of her poetry during our time together which will be on Zoom, November 17, 2021 at 6:30, facilitated by Janette Jameson.
Prior reading of the book is NOT a requirement of joining us! This is an opportunity simply to learn about the poet and her work.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, These Many Rooms (Four Way Books, 2019). Her collection, Small Gods of Grief (BOA Editions), won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. A New Hunger, (Ausable Press 2008) was an American Library Association Notable Book in 2008.
She grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She taught poetry workshops in Colorado and co-directed the Aspen Writers’ Conference from 1989 to 1992. She is fluent in four languages, and has published poems in French and Flemish. She was a Breadloaf Fellow, was awarded the McEver Chair at Georgia Tech, taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College, at the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, and is part of the founding faculty at the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. She is the widow of poet Kurt Brown and currently lives in Santa Barbara, California
Copies of the book will be available from the Modesto Library–ask at check-out desk or call (209) 558-7808.
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Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Cristina Sandoval & Manny Moreno
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center features poets Cristina Sandoval and Manny Moreno for the November installment of Second Tuesday Poetry. Join us to hear these two poets read for us as first-time featured poets on Tuesday, November 9, at 7 pm, on Google Meet. Hosted by Stella Beratlis with open mic following the featured readers.
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CRISTINA SANDOVAL
Cristina Sandoval is an MFA student at Fresno State University and a poet to the bone. Cristina has been a purveyor of words since she can remember. She is a proud Chicana and is desperately in love with language. She often mixes her two languages, Spanish and English, in an attempt to bridge the beauty and hurt in both. Her work often focuses on family, mental health, and finding meaning in the terrible. She has two books on Amazon, Moon Ride, and We Need Bad Bitches. Her work has been featured in Penumbra, Artifact Nouveau, Exist(ir), and Dystopian Dance Party. Her thesis work is centered around the nature of family, culture, and hair. She is from Modesto, California, and now lives in Fresno. And if you were wondering, yes, she misses Mr. T’s Donuts!
MANNY MONOLIN
Monolin “Manny” Moreno is the author of four books, the most recent of which is a collection of poems, Longview Road. Manny’s previous works include Scared–Coming Full Circle: A Memoir; his first poetry collection, The Bridge Is Gone; and The Elder: A Tribute, about the importance of elders in the community and about two Native American elders in particular.
His poems are about growing up in Livingston, where his family’s roots were established in the early 1900s, and about a wide range of topics.
Manny is a Member of the Black Wolf Honor Society Gourd Clan, a member of Native American Church and Sundances yearly in South Dakota. Manny is of Yaqui/Tarascan descent. Manny has been featured in interviews on Native Voice TV, Channel 10, Sacramento and Company, KKUP Radio/Indian Time and Two Roads Productions. He has been a speaker at Modesto Junior College and various events. He was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2011.
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