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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the December edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, December 13th at 2:00 P. M.  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center\, this time we’ll be on ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84608931424 \nJoin us\, too\, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! And please feel free to download and print our PDF flyer. \n\nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books) and the new chapbook The Umbrian Sonnets (PANK).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, a Kundiman fellowship\, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Saltonstall Arts Colony.  He teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. \n  \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art.  A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the 2020 Four Quartets Prize\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.​
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-dec-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201208T190000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER and your host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Odilia Galván Rodríguez and Meg Withers for Second Tuesday Poetry on December 8\, 2020. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91826874769 \n\nOdilia Galván Rodríguez is a poet\, writer\, editor\, publisher\, and social justice activist\, the author of six volumes of poetry. Her latest is The Color of Light\, FlowerSong Books\, 2019. She is a long-time community organizer and volunteer and has been the editor for Matrix Women’s News Magazine\, Community Murals Magazine and Tricontinental Magazine in Havana\, Cuba. She currently edits two journals: Cloud Women’s Quarterly and Anacua Literary Arts. \nGalván Rodríguez co-founded the Facebook page “Poets Responding\,” and co-authored the groundbreaking\, award winning anthology\, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, University of Arizona Press. Her poetry and writings have appeared in numerous anthologies\, and literary journals. She is a practitioner of Indigenous Spiritual and Healing Traditions and strives to live a simple life based on the indigenous worldview of her ancestors. \n\nMeg Withers has been writing to save her sanity since she was about 9. She has been published in literary journals and other creative projects. She has been anthologized\, and has three published books: Must Be Present to Win (Ghost Road 2005)\, A Communion of Saints (TinFish 2008)\, and Shadowed: Unheard Voices (Press at Fresno State 2014). \nHer fourth book\, Particular Odyssey: In Search\, is forthcoming from Prickly Pear Press\, and is likely to be published in 2021\, barring the unforeseen circumstances of life these days. The basis for Meg’s work is concern with the attempt to silence voices. \nOpen mic follows the featured readers. Please sign up in advance at https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-12-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T190000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the NOVEMBER installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series on November 10th at 7:00 pm\, hosted by Stella Beratlis. We are pleased to feature poets Aideed Medina of Fresno and Jon Grammatico of Modesto. \n\nAideed Medina\, poet and spoken word artist\, creates and performs poetry in English\, or Spanish\, as dictated by the inspiration of each individual piece. She enjoys mentoring high school students under the direction of the Fresno Poet Laureate\, Bryan Medina\, with the Poetry Out Loud Program\, and for youth slam competitions throughout the California central valley. She was honored to be the 2017 Representative for the Loud Mouth Poetry Slam of Visalia\, CA at the Women of the World Poetry Slam DTX\, and recently received the 2017 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award for her contributions to the city’s artistic and cultural scene in the category of individual artist. She is currently working on her first two manuscripts\, “A California Dime” and “Mis Papelitos.” Her work has appeared in Revista Literaria Austral\, Fresno State’s Club Austral literary magazine and Flies\, Cockroaches and Poets\, the Chicano Writers and Artists Association journal. Online she has work on La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Art of the Commune: La comuna\, and as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix\, Fresno Grand Opera. \nJon Grammatico has been writing poems since his high school days but began reading at local open mics last year. Jon received his Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and his Master of Social Work from Stanislaus State. He currently works as a social worker with Stanislaus County in the Public Health Department\, functioning as the HIV/AIDS program coordinator and is the recently elected President of MoPride\, the leading LGBTQ+ organization in Stanislaus county. When he is not writing\, Jon spends his time tending to his 30+ house plants\, caring for his two cats and dog\, and listening to music. He currently lives in Turlock\, CA with his partner. \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99171810028 \nOpen mic following the featured readers; sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T190000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Zoom Open Mic Night!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is offering an Open Mic Poetry Reading to MoSt members and to any other poets in the Stanislaus County community.  This Zoom program will be on Sunday\, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.  The host will be Salvatore Salerno.  All poets are invited to read one or two of their own poems for two to three minutes\, including any introductory remarks.  If they have books that are available\, they can show those works to the audience.  The Zoom invitation will be sent through the MoSt website\, our Facebook page\, and through other publicity venues on Friday\, October 23. There is no prior registration required.  We look forward to hearing your poetry!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-zoom-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T170000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Join host Stella Beratlis in our monthly reading + open mic series. This month we are excited to feature Eliot Schain\, author of THE DISTANT SHORE\, and Patrick Cahill\, author of THE MACHINERY OF SLEEP. \n Patrick Cahill’s prose and poems have appeared in over forty journals\, including TriQuarterly\, Volt\, Poets Eleven\, the Irish magazine Into the Void\, Subprimal\, and Eclectica. His poems have twice won the Central Coast Writers Award. He is a cofounder and editor of Ambush Review\, a San Francisco–based literary and arts journal and was a contributing editor for the Sonoma County anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots. Patrick received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California\, Santa Cruz and wrote a study of Whitman and visual experience in nineteenth-century America. Portions of this work have appeared in The Daguerreian Annual and Left Curve. \n Eliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Santa Monica Review\, Another Chicago Magazine\, and Miramar\, among other journals\, as well as in three anthologies: The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed\, Christopher Buckley and Gary Young’s Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California\, and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. Schain’s books include American Romance from Zeitgeist Press and Westering Angels from Small Poetry Press. He has served as program director for the Poetry Society of America\, has taught high school\, and now works as a psychotherapist. A proud member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, he lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his wife\, Mary. \n  \nOpen mic follows: sign up in advance (10 slot available): https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \nZoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91739636824 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,91739636824# or +12532158782\,91739636824# \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)/Meeting ID: 917 3963 6824
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-oct-2020/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T200000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night at the Queen Bean
DESCRIPTION:Melchor Sahagun III will be hosting Poetry Night at the Queen Bean on Tuesday\, September 15th starting at 6 pm\, via the Zoom platform. (Links to the event will be furnished on Facebook a little later this month). The reading will be devoted exclusively to open mic readers\, so drop by and read and/or listen to some great poetry.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-night-at-the-queen-bean/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200908T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with the Meter Maids
DESCRIPTION:Join us this month as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the local writing group The Meter Maids\, featuring members of the group reading their work. Open mic following featured readers. NOTE: 7 pm start time.  \nBelow is a history of the Meter Maids: \nWhat began as a sharing of poetry between two women who worked with the committee that brought the 20th Anniversary of Earth Day to Modesto in April 1990 inspired one to reach out to other friends who wrote and loved poetry.\nThe group gathered monthly at various homes and remained nameless for many\, many years\, welcoming a few men and many women into its fold. Eventually\, the group evolved into an ever-changing\, nurturing sisterhood\, whose members have ranged in age from 16 to 80 and included two mother-daughter partners. One daughter\, the 16-year-old\, is grown\, married and continues to meet with us from New York on Zoom with her infant son on her lap.\nThe structure of our monthly meetings departs from most poetry groups\, which usually write independently and bring poems to be read\, critiqued and enjoyed. We are not designed as a critique group\, but critique does happen. We are not a therapy group\, but we do support one another through our personal challenges. We share a common love of poetry and passion for writing.\nOver the years the group has developed a tradition of staring each meeting with an afternoon “tea” schmooze during which members catch up with one another\, share our lives\, gather words or suggest prompts\, then write and share. The tradition includes sharing the fun of writing and creating around such monthly prompts as fortune cookie Monday in January; hearts; MLK; dead presidents in February; Women’s History in March’ the four seasons at solstices and equinoxes; Cinco de Mayo in May\, Stone Soup; pumpkins\, ghosts and goblins in October; Dia de los Muertos and Thanksgiving in November; and the many\, many holidays in December.\nOver the past 30 years\, three chap books have been published\, and a 30-Year- Anniversary book featuring poetry submitted by members past and present will go to press very soon\, thanks to the talented and dedicated work of one of our original founding members\, Karen Baker.\nWe share these samplings of our poetry with gratitude for the talented community of poets both in Meter Maids and in the Modesto area. We are pleased that members who have moved away to new adventures can join our Zoom meetings during this quarantine year and beyond.\nHi there\,\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/97782297419\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,97782297419# or +13462487799\,97782297419#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 977 8229 7419
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on July 14th\, 2020\, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer above for more information on our featured poets\, Connie Post and Michael Meyerhofer. \nLive links for reading here:\nFor the open mic: https://padlet.com/beratliss/j0ynareusug2u61c\nFor the Zoom reading: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99196095308
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Series featuring Josh McKinney & Lisa Dominguez Abraham
DESCRIPTION:Braid fresh flowers into your hair and perform pagan rituals as we ponder the newly-hatched world of SPRING. \nOr you could just come to this poetry reading! \nJoin Modesto poet laureate Stella Beratlis as she presents featured poets Josh McKinney and Lisa Dominguez Abraham. \nJoshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press\, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard\, Denver Quarterly\, Kenyon Review\, New American Writing\, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize\, The Dickinson Prize\, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize\, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is coeditor of the online ecopoetry zine\, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University\, Sacramento. \nLisa Dominguez Abraham’s poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Review\, North American Review and Poetry East. Her collection Mata Hari Blows a Kiss won the 2016 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest\, and her book Coyote Logic came out from Blue Oak Press in February 2019. She works at Cosumnes River College. \nBring a poem to share during our open mic following the featured poets’ readings. Since it’s almost spring\, let’s explore the themes darkness and light.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/march2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto.  Featured poets include Zaid Shlah. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-2-2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T160000
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CREATED:20191212T020052Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for 2020’s first installment of our quarterly reading series! Click the image at right to download the PDF flyer\, and see below for bios of our featured readers. \nBarbara Swift Brauer is a freelance writer living in San Geronimo\, California. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies as well as in art exhibitions and installations. She is the author of two collections from Sixteen Rivers Press: Rain\, Like a Thief (2019) and At Ease in the Borrowed World (2013). With portrait artist Jackie Kirk\, Barbara is coauthor of the nonfiction book\, Witness: The Artist’s Vision in “The Face of AIDS” (Pomegranate Artbooks\, 1996). \nBethanie Humphreys is a writer\, editor\, and mixed-media visual artist. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member\, SPC Art Gallery curator\, Associate Editor for Tule Review\, and was Editor-in-Chief for the 2015 American River Review. Her chapbook\, Dendrochronology\, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019\, and her poetry\, short fiction\, and art have appeared in various publications in the U.S. and U.K. including:  Artemis\, Nonbinary Review\, The Found Poetry Review\, American River Review\, and Sacramento Voices. She is a California Certified Naturalist and teaches creative writing workshops as a certified Amherst Writers and Artists method instructor. \nMaya Khosla is the poet laureate of Sonoma County (2018–20). Her new poetry book is All the Fires of Wind and Light (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2019). Her work in the natural world has led her into the wild\, to the page\, and to the screen. She has documented forests\, fire scientists\, and firefighters talking about ways to be wise about wildfire. Maya’s work has taken her across coastal India\, Kenya\, and the United States. Her poems have also been collected in Keel Bone (Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize\, Bear Star Press) and in Heart of the Tearing (Red Dust Press). Her essays have appeared in Flyway\, Yes Magazine\, Humans and Nature\, and elsewhere. She has written for the films Village of Dust\, City of Water\, and Shifting Undercurrents\, and is working on a film about being “Firewise” in a time of climate change.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-2-2020/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-1-2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-12-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the third installment of our quarterly reading series! Click the image at right to download the PDF flyer\, and see below for bios of our featured readers. \nAsh Young currently lives in Modesto with her husband\, two sons\, and two Pomeranians. She writes poetry about her life\, and hopes to never be famous. \nBorn in Canada\, and of Iraqi heritage\, Zaid Shlah currently resides in Northern California with his family. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines\, journals\, and anthologies in both Canada and the U. S. In May of 2005\, he was awarded the American Academy of Poets Award. His first book of poetry\, Taqsim\, was published in the US and in Canada (Frontenac House\, 2006). His second book of poems and essays is entitled Clockwork (Frontenac House\, 2015). He teaches composition and literature at Modesto Junior College. \nLee Herrick is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems appear widely in literary magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies\, including Columbia Poetry Review\, The Poetry Foundation\, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice and Here: Poems for the Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (forthcoming in Spring 2020 by Orison Books). Born in Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States\, he served as Fresno Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-12-2019/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-11-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T200000
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CREATED:20190923T180525Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 15th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto with featured readers Paul Neuman and Amy Miller. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-10-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the third installment of our quarterly reading series! Click the image at right to download the PDF flyer\, and see below for bios of our featured readers. \nSara Coito is a Central Valley native whose claim to fame is that she and Megan Rapinoe share an alma mater. She seeks to explore ugly emotions\, the struggle and ease of intimacy\, and the plurality of devotion in her poetry. Her other passions include music\, making pictures\, working in kindergarten classrooms\, eggs for breakfast\, and snail mail. You can find her earlier work in Sigma Tau Delta’s Rectangle and University of Portland’s Writers magazine. Connect with her via email at coitosk@gmail.com or Instagram @thecoits. \nIngrid Keriotis is a former MJC English instructor. Her first book of poetry\, It Started with the Wild Horses\, was published in April and is available at ingridkeriotis.com. Ingrid currently teaches at Sierra College in Grass Valley. When it comes to writing poetry\, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” \nJoshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press\, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard\, Denver Quarterly\, Kenyon Review\, New American Writing\, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize\, The Dickinson Prize\, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize\, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online eco-poetry zine\, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University\, Sacramento.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-2/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on August 13th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto\, featuring poets Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPos Moua is a Hmong-American writer\, educator\, and poet who lives in Merced with his wife and their five children. He is the author of the chapbook “Towards the World Where the Torches Are Burning” (Swan Scythe Press\, 2001)\, the first published work from a Hmong American poet. He has published work in How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology\, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing\, UC Davis Poetry Review\, Sacramento’s “Poetry Now\,” and National Poetry.” Pos Moua’s new book\, Karst Mountains Will Bloom\, was published by Blue Oak Press in April 2019. \nYu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei\, Taiwan. Her poetry books & chapbooks were published by Another New Calligraphy\, BOAAT Press\, Dancing Girl Press\, and University of Nebraska Press. Her new short story collection\, Sex & Taipei City\, is now out with Red Hen Press. She maintains a blog at www.yuhanchao.com about nursing school.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nStay tuned for more info!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on June 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Stella Beratlis and Gillian Wegener. Wegener has been running the Barkin’ Dog series for the past 10 years and is now handing the reins over to Beratlis\, who will carry on with new energy and all her grace and verve and humor. And there will be cake! \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nStella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink and the poet laureate of Modesto. Her work has been published in California Quarterly\, In Posse Review\, hardpan\, Song of the San Joaquin\, Penumbra\, and Quercus Review as well as the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She is a librarian at Modesto Junior College. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two collections of poetry\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (2008) and This Sweet Haphazard (2017). Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and is forthcoming from MockingHeart Review. Wegener is a co-founder of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto\, and started this reading series in June of 2009.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-6-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on May 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPoet and radio commentator Molly Fisk was chosen by the Academy of American Poets as one of the inaugural American Poet Laureate Fellows. She’s also received grants from the NEA and the CA Arts Council. Fisk is the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, among other collections\, and lives in Nevada City\, CA. \nIngrid Keriotis‘ first book of poetry\, It Started with the Wild Horses\, is now available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems are also included in the anthology\, More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: the Modesto Poets. In writing\, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” Ingrid lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and teaches writing to community college students.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on April 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring poets from the Sixteen Rivers poetry collective. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-4-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on March 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured readers are Lee Herrick and Maw Shein Win. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-3-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring the poetry of beloved local poets Virginia Dall\, George Rogers\, and Lee Nicholson\, read by members of the MoSt poetry community. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190108T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 8th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry with featured readers from America\, We Call Your Name. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181211T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 11 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers the Licensed Fools. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-12-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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