Please join host Gary Thomas at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Ave., Turlock, California) for a poetry reading featuring Lucille Lang Day and Carl Landauer. There will be light refreshments and an open mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public.

Lucille Lang Day is the author of four poetry chapbooks and seven full-length collections, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place. She has also edited three poetry anthologies and published two children’s books and a memoir. Her work appears in more than 200 magazines and anthologies, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, River Styx, The Threepenny Review, Scientific American, ZYZZYVA, and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. She is founder and publisher of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books. https://lucillelangday.com

Carl Landauer taught history at Yale, Stanford, and McGill and is currently a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and a visiting scholar with UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies. His poetry has appeared in Kenyon Review, Exacting Clam, and Poetry Flash. His writing on poetry and cultural history has appeared in Beat Scene, The American Scholar, Salmagundi, Confrontation, Renaissance Quarterly, German Studies Review, and Poetry Flash—as well as a critical analysis of Project 2025 published by Public Seminar. He is currently writing a long series of poems he calls “refracted ekphrases,” each of which focuses on a movie that is adapted from literature.