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SUMMARY:UPDATED: Poetry at the Carnegie featuring Jesse Wolfe and Stella Beratlis
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to a necessary scheduling change\, Jesse Wolfe will read with Stella Beratlis on 2/21/26. Cleo Griffith will be a featured reader at a future date to be determined. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. \nPlease join host Gary Thomas at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday\, February 21\, 2026 at Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, California) for a poetry reading featuring Jesse Wolfe and Stella Beratlis. There will be light refreshments and an open mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \nJesse Wolfe is a poet\, scholar\, and English Professor at CSU Stanislaus\, where he has taught since 2006. His debut poetry chapbook\, En Route\, was published in 2020 by Cathexis Northwest Press\, who will also publish his new volume\, Breathe Again: A Polyphony\, in 2026. He is the author of two scholarly books about modernist literature and the history of intimacy. He is currently working on a third scholarly book about African American modernism and ideas of progress. \n \nStella Beratlis is the author of Dust Bowl Venus. Her first collection Alkali Sink was a nominee for the 2016 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Harbor Review\, California Quarterly\, and In Posse Review. among others\, and in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. She was Modesto’s poet laureate from 2016-2020 and works as a librarian at Modesto Junior College.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-at-the-carnegie-featuring-cleo-griffith-and-jesse-wolfe/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday with Eliot Schain & Salvatore Salerno
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Modesto Poet Laureate Emeritus Salvatore Salerno with Sixteen Rivers Press poet Eliot Schain  \nDate: Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \n  \nELIOT SCHAIN\nEliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Santa Monica Review\, and Miramar\, among others\, as well as in a number of anthologies\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed.  His book\, The Distant Sound\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2020.  Earlier books include American Romance and Westering Angels\, both from Zeitgeist Press.  \nSelections from The Distant Sound have been recorded and released as a digital album in collaboration with guitarist Harrison Flynn\, available on Apple Music and Spotify.  A newer collaboration Drive\, They Said\, also with Harrison Flynn\, is available as well.  Schain has served as program director for The Poetry Society of America\, taught high school\, and currently works as a psychotherapist in Berkeley\, California\, where he lives with his wife\, Mary D’Elia.  \nABOUT THE DISTANT SOUND\nThe Distant Sound is a prismatic meditation on what it means to be human\, especially when the body and mind seek their own paths to heaven. The poems employ the long Whitmanian breath and are often narrative\, but with mysterious syntax whose goal is to bypass reason and activate the heart. \n  \nSALVATORE SALERNO \n  \nSalvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He has worked as a playwright and poet in the North Carolina Visiting Artist Program. After retiring from teaching English at Davis High School\, Salvatore became a founding member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. He was the Poet Laureate of Modesto from 2020-24. His sixth book of poetry is After Thoughts. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026mar10/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of the New Sun
DESCRIPTION:THE ANTIDOTE IS POETRY. COME TO POETRY. \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring members of Sacramento-based writing group Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of the New Sun:  Zheyla Henriksen\, Paul Aponte\, Janet Rodriguez\, JoAnn Anglin\, Marco Contreras\, and Lorena Rodriguez. \nDate: Tuesday\, April 14\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener.  \nZheyla Henriksen is an Ecuadorian poet\, researcher\, artist\, and retired college & university teacher including at UC Davis where she received her PHD in Latin American and Spanish Literature.  She has been awarded several times including in 2004 when she received La Medalla de Oro al Merito Cultural in Cuenca Ecuador.  Zheyla was included in the Who’s Who of Distinguished Professionals\, and in History & Anthology of Ecuadorian Literature (2023). \nPaul Aponte is a Chicano Poet\,co-coordinator of Escritores Del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun\, and member of Círculo De Poetas & Writers. He has been published in the Tecolote Press anthology Poetry In Flight\, Tule Review 2024\, in the anthology Soñadores – We Came To Dream\, in the Los Angeles Review Volume 20 – Fall 2016\, and in Cold River Press Voices 2022-2025.  His colorful book of poetry DEL CACTUS is available through Prickly Pear Press and other sources. \nJanet Rodriguez is an author\, teacher\, editor\, and the author of Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations (Prickly Pear Publishing\, 2022)\, a family memoir. Her short story\, “The Key in the Tignanello Bag” was recently published in the regional anthology\, Sacramento Noir\, edited by John Freeman. Her work has also been featured in Hobart\, Pangyrus\, Eclectica\, The Rumpus\, Cloud Women’s Quarterly\, American River Review\, and Calaveras Station. Her short stories\, essays\, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world.  \nJoAnn Anglin is a leading member of Escritores Del Nuevo Sol and has been a teaching poet in the schools\, including at Shriners Children’s Hospital\, and at New Folsom Prison. Her chapbooks include Words Like Knives\, Like Feathers and Heat\, and her poems have been published in Tule Review\, Sable & Quill\, Sacramento Voices\, Rattlesnake Review\, The Pagan Muse\, 100 Poems about Sacramento\, Acorn\, and Cosumnes River Journal. In 2012\, JoAnn received an Arts Program Award from the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento City Council and in 2024 she was honored by the California Senate for her contributions as a poet and leader to the community. \nMarco Contreras is from Stockton and currently resides in Sacramento. He has been published in UCLA’s Daily Bruin and La Gente De Aztlan magazine. He also has contributions in several anthologies\, including his latest about his trip to the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. \nLorena Rodriguez has roots in the Andes\, born and raised in a land where the cultivation of potatoes and corn is a way of life. A multidisciplinary artist\, Lorena uses performance and theater as a tool for activism\, community building\, and healing. She is a writer\, performer\, fermenter\, dancer\, and textile artist\, and through her work\, she shares practical actions for health and well-being while inspiring the reimagining of systems that address collective needs and foster healing.  \n  \nHISTORY OF LOS ESCRITORES DEL NUEVO SOL  \n \nLos Escritores del Nuevo Sol emerged from a literary program of La Raza Galería Posada (LRGP)\, the Sacramento Chicano/Native American arts center founded in 1972. Our roots can be followed to an initial poetry event organized by the Royal Chicano Air Force and other groups. That event in 1978 was called “One More Canto”. It was held at the Reno Club\, a downtown neighborhood bar and dance club. This idea of poetry for the community grew and future poetry\, song and performance art events continued. LRGP took sponsorship of the Canto Series well into the 1980’s and 1990’s with those events occurring at La Raza Galería Posada\, Luna’s Café\, the Benny Barrios Studio and the Odd Fellows Hall. \nIn the 1990’s LRGP board members Arturo Mantecón and Francisco X. Alarcón organized a Floricanto series featuring Latino poets. Seeing favorable community interest\, they started a writers’ workshop\, Taller Literario. The Taller philosophy was to foster\, preserve\, and present the best of Chicano/Latino and native American writing. The first meetings attracted about a dozen local writers. Alarcón and Mantecón drew on their experience in publishing and working with writing groups to guide this group to be given recognition and to be established in October of 1993. \nThe Taller became an essential part of La Raza Galería Posada readings and became connected with other significant cultural events – Day of the Dead\, Cinco de Mayo\, exhibition openings\, etc.In time\, events were added such as the Valentine’s Day and the all-Spanish readings. \nEventually the group adopted a new name suggested by Graciela Brauer Ramírez: Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun. This recognized the 2012 coming of El Sexto Sol\, the dawning of a new world consciousness based on the Mesoamerican worldview. \nAs the years passed\, Los Escritores became a known part of the Sacramento literary community. In 2002\, José Montoya\, a member of Los Escritores\, was appointed Sacramento’s Poet Laureate. Los Escritores participated in his activities resulting in more visibility. In 2020’s\, two additional members were named Poet Laureate – Lara Gularte (El Dorado County) and Nancy González St. Clair (Lodi\, CA) also contributing to more recognition and visibility for Escritores del Nuevo Sol. \nWith the publication of our 2004 anthology\, Voices of the new Sun\, Poems and Stories / Voces del Nuevo Sol\, Cantos y Cuentos\, the group’s written work took tangible form. The 25th Anniversary anthology was published in 2017\, and in 2025 the anthology Then and Now came to cheer the past and present.  \nWhile the circle has grown\, it also acknowledges the loss of loved ones who were a part of its start: Phil Goldvarg\, José Montoya\, Helen and Esteban Villa\, Luz María Gama\, Max Schwartz\, Sam Ríos\, Jean y Winn Starr\, and Escritores co-founder Francisco X. Alarcón. We remember them well.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026aprilescritores/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with featured poets Kathy Pon and Chris Olander
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 12\, as we present Gustine-based poet Kathy Pon and Nevada City poet  Chris Olander\, poet laureate emeritus of Nevada County. \nAt Bookish Modesto\, 7 pm. Doors at 6:30 pm. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026may_st/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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