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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Aideed Medina and Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Fresno’s newest Poet Laureate and spoken word artist Aideed Medina with Tracy poet\, teacher\, and spoken word artist Russell Reza-Khaliz Gonzaga\n\nDate: Tuesday\, June 10\, 2025Time: 7:00 pm PSTWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center\n\nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener\n\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga has hosted and organized events and workshops including the Sierra Poetry Festival\, the Center Camp Spoken Word Stage at Burning Man\, and the weekly ELYSEUM Writers Workshops at Harbin Hot Springs. Russell is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Lake County (2012-2014) and has represented San Francisco for three years at the National Poetry Slam. As an Arts Educator\, he has worked with several organizations including YouthSpeaks and WritersCorps. He is also the recipient of the Certificate of Honor from the Board of Supervisors and a Mayor’s declaration of “Russell Gonzaga Day” in San Francisco. Currently\, Russell is Poetry Editor for The Fabulist\, hosts the monthly Word Bubbles Open Mic in Tracy CA\, and is caretaker for his beloved Auntie Rosie.\n\nAideed Medina\n\n\nAideed Medina is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet\, award-winning spoken word artist and playwright\, and is the author of 31 Hummingbird: A Suite of Poems (Editorial Xingao\, 2023) and Segmented Bodies (Prickly Pear Press\,  2024). Her poetry and prose have been featured in many publications\, including Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine\, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal\, La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Split This Rock\, and Nueva York Poetry Review\, among many others\, as well as in compositions for the 559 Mural Project and Fresno Grand Opera’s Opera Remix. Aideed is also a California Naturalist\, and practices “flor y canto” as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history. This past April\, Aideed was appointed Fresno’s seventh poet laureate. She will serve through March 2027.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-with-aideed-medina-and-russell-reza-khaliq-gonzaga/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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