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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:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Lucille Lang Day and Carl Landauer
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nLucille 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 \n  \n \nCarl 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. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-lucille-lang-day-and-carl-landauer/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Joshua McKinney & Cecil Morris
DESCRIPTION:Please join host Gary Thomas at 2:00 p.m. Saturday\, August 30\, 2025 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA for a poetry reading featuring Joshua McKinney and Cecil Morris. There will be light refreshments and an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \n \nJoshua McKinney’s fifth book of poetry\, Sad Animal (2024)\, was the recipient of the John Ridland Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard\, Denver Quarterly\, Kenyon Review\, New American Writing\, and many others. He is co-editor of the online ecopoetics journal\, Clade Song. \n \nCecil Morris taught high school English for 37 years in Roseville\, the small northern California city where he grew up. At Work in the Garden of Possibilities is his debut poetry collection. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, Morris has poems in The 2River Review\, Ekphrastic Review\, Hole in the Head Review\, Lascaux Review\, Rust + Moth\, Sugar House Review\, and elsewhere. He and his wife\, the mother of their children\, divide their year between their California hometown and the cool Oregon coast\, where they walk the beach and marvel at the sea and tide pools and joyful romping dogs. \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-joshua-mckinney-cecil-morris/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Christina Lloyd & Alice Templeton
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry On Saturday Reading\nNovember 9\, 2024\n2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center\n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, CA\n\n     Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s (MoSt’s) Poetry On Saturday in-person readings on November 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue) in Turlock. Our featured poets are Christina Lloyd and Alice Templeton\, both with new books out from Sixteen Rivers Press. An Open Mic time will follow the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided.\n\n\n     Born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco\, Christina Lloyd holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in a wide variety of publications\, including Canadian Woman Studies\, EcoTheo\, Hive\, Meniscus\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry Ireland\, Poet Lore\, The North\, and SWWIM. Women Twice Removed\, published by Sixteen Rivers Press\, is her first full-length collection. She lives in San Francisco. \n \n     Alice Templeton’s poems and short stories have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review\, Bellingham Review\, Calyx\, North American Review\, Poetry\, and other publications. Her work was a finalist for the 2020 Neruda Prize from Nimrod\, and her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press. She is also the author of a critical book on Adrienne Rich’s poetics and scholarly articles on contemporary poetics\, cultural criticism\, and literary theory. Originally from Tennessee\, Templeton lives in Point Richmond\, California.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-christina-lloyd-alice-templeton/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Christina Lux\, Kim McMillon\, & Salvatore Salerno
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry On Saturday Reading\nAugust 17\, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center           250 N. Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, CA\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s (MoSt’s) Poetry On Saturday in-person readings on August 17 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock. Come enjoy some high-quality summertime respite and restoration via three fine poets’ words!\nOur featured readers are Christina Lux\, Kim McMillon\, and Salvatore Salerno.  An Open Mic time will follow the featured poets. For more details on the poets and their books\, read their accompanying bios.\nThis event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided.\n  \nChristina Lux’s poetry has appeared on National Public Radio\, in the Houston Chronicle\, in textbooks by Oxford University Press\, and in journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly and North Dakota Quarterly.  Her book of poems\, War Bonds\, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. Born in Pasadena\, California\, she lived in the Central Valley of California for several years before moving to Texas\, then Québec\, and finally spending five years in Cameroon\, where she lived in the Bui Division of the Northwest Province as well as in Yaoundé before returning to the U.S. for university. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon and is currently Managing Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of California\,  Merced. \n \n  \n \nDr. Kim McMillon is a producer\, playwright\, and contributor to the anthology Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio University Press\, 2021). McMillon is the editor of Willow Books’ anthology Black Fire—This Time\, published March 15\, 2022. McMillon produced the 2016 Dillard University-Harvard Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement  Conference in New Orleans. With UC Merced’s Center for the Humanities\, ASUCM\, and the Office of Student Life\, Ms. McMillon co-produced the 2014 UC Merced Black Arts Movement Conference\, Fifty Years On. McMillon edited the April 2018 special edition of The Journal of PAN African Studies on the Black Arts Movement and contributed a chapter on the Black Arts Movement to the Black Power Encyclopedia (1965-1975). This two-volume reference work explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States. McMillon produced\, wrote\, and starred in her one-woman show\, Confessions of a Thespian: When Spirit & Theatre Collide\, directed by Margo Hall and staged at the Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkeley\, CA\, in March 2000. McMillon also produced\, wrote\, and directed Voyages\, which premiered at the Nova Theatre in San Francisco in March 1986 and was produced at Zellerbach Playhouse in August 1987. In January 1988\, Berkeley’s Black Repertory Group produced Voyages.  Dr. McMillon’s children’s book\, The Healing Book of Me\, will be available in late 2024. \n \nSalvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was a poet and playwright in the North Carolina Visiting Artist Program.  Salvatore is a retired English and drama teacher from Davis High School.  He was the Poet Laureate of Modesto from 2020-24 and is still the president of Stanislaus Audubon Society.  His sixth poetry book is After Thoughts.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-christina-lux-kim-mcmillon-salvatore-salerno/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry On Saturday featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt & Mary Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, for a MoSt Poetry reading featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Mary Mackey on Saturday\, February 24\, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. PST.  An open mic will follow the featured poets\, and light refreshments will be available. This reading\, hosted by Gary Thomas\, is free and open to the public. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gatherer’s Alphabet (Gunpowder Press\, CA Poets Prize\, 2022)\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and a number of previous small press collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash. A new book\, Frangible Operas: Selected Uncollected is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com. \n  \nMary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, being swarmed by army ants\, and reading. She is the author of eight poetry collections\, including Sugar Zone\, winner of a PEN Award\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams\, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry\, Jane Hirshfield\, D. Nurkse\, Al Young\, Rafael Jesús González\, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty\, precision\, originality\, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion.  Recent honors and awards include: \n2023 City of Angels Women’s Film Festival Award Official Selection for Best Feature Screenplay for “The Stand In.” The screenplay is an adaptation of Mary Mackey’s novel of the same title\, published under her pen name “Kate Clemens.” \nNorthern California Book Reviews Award Finalist for “Creativity: Where Poems Begin\, Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in 2023. \nWinner of City of Angels Film Festival for Best Short Screenplay for “Time Piece “ 2022. \n“Lady Danger\,” Nominated for Best Feature-Length Screenplay\, City of Angels Womens Film Festival\, 2022. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-susan-kelly-dewitt-mary-mackey/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Saturday Reading featuring Connie Post and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday Reading\nAugust 12\, 2023  2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California)\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On \nSaturday readings in person on August 12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie \nArts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Livermore poet laureate\nemeritus Connie Post and Marin County poet laureate Francesca Bell \n(both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time after the \nfeatured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light\nrefreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConnie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California. Her \nwork has appeared in Calyx\, Comstock Review\, One\, Cold Mountain \nReview\, Slipstream\, Spillway\, River Styx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, \nValparaiso Poetry Review\, and Verse Daily. She has two full-length \nbooks from Glass Lyre Press\, entitled Floodwater and Prime Meridian.\nHer most recent book\, Between Twilight\, is from New York Quarterly \nbooks\, and she has a recent chapbook\, Broken Metronome\, about her\nbrother’s journey with Parkinson’s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain\, a finalist for the Washington \nState Book Award and the Julie Suk Award\, and What Small Sound\,\, and is\n\n\n\nthe translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here\, all from Red Hen\nPress. Her work appears in B O D Y\, ELLE\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, \nNew England Review\, North American Review\, Mid-American Review\, and \nRattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx\, the translation editor \nof Los Angeles Review\, and the poet laureate of Marin County. She lives \nwith her family in Novato\, California.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading-featuring-connie-post-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Carnegie Poetry on Saturday Series  2:00 p.m. November 19\, 2022 featuring Bryan Medina & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Saturday\, November 19\, 2022 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA  from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for a poetry reading by Bryan Medina and Linda Scheller with an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \n        S. Bryan Medina is a former student of U. S. poet laureate emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, and his poetry has graced stages in the San Francisco BayArea\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded both the Inner Ear Open Mic and the Beat Down  Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Medina\, a long-time art activist\, has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations\, including the 2014 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award\, for contributions to the rich artistic and cultural heritage in Fresno. He is the author of More than Soil\, Less than Sand and his work has appeared in journals such as Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In the Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs\, among others. In 2017 Medina was named Fresno County’s third Poet Laureate\, serving a distinguished two-year term reaching out to the community featuring readings\, school and university visits\, writing workshops\, and meetings with business and political leaders throughout the state of California.  Medina is a Desert Storm/Gulf War veteran and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.\n\n\n        Linda Scheller is a retired public elementary school teacher and the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce\nLight (FutureCycle Press\, 2017) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag\, 2022) as well as a chapbook\, Halcyon. Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are widely published in journals and anthologies including Colorado Review\, Arkana\, Gyroscope Review\, Plays\, On the Seawall\, Sugar House Review\, Poetry East\, and The Wild Word. She volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio\, tutors adults in literacy and English language acquisition\, and serves on the boards of MoSt Poetry and the Stanislaus County Arts Council. Ms. Scheller is a member of the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women and sings with Modesto Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Her website is lindascheller.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegie-poetry-on-saturday-series-200-p-m-november-19-2022-featuring-bryan-medina-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Saturday in the Park with Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join Modesto Poet Laureate Salvatore Salerno at Davis Community Park\, 2701 College Avenue in Modesto\, CA at 8:00 a.m. PT on September 10\, 2022 for Saturday in the Park with Poetry. Bring a favorite book of poetry or two and share some of your favorite poems with other poetry aficionados. You can also bring poetry books to donate or trade. \nMeet at the picnic tables near the parking lot. In case the tables are occupied\, please also bring a lawn chair\, and we’ll gather elsewhere.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/saturday-in-the-park-with-poetry/
LOCATION:Davis Park\, 2701 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Coffee Tea and Poetry,Poetry on Saturday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas will read their poetry on August 13\, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. during MoSt Poetry on Saturday at the Carnegie Arts Center\, located at 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, CA. There will be light refreshments and an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \nNancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet\, educator\, and activist. Her work has appeared in Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature\, La Tolteca\, Mujeres De Maiz Zine\, Hinchas de Poesía\,  Fifth Wednesday Journal and several other literary journals. Her work is featured in Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, Sacramento Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology\, Lowriting: Shots\, Rides\, and Stories from the Chicano Soul\, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. \n  \n. Gary Thomas grew up on a peach farm outside Empire\, California.  Prior to retirement\, he taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years and junior college English for seven\, sharing and discussing at least one poem every day with his students.  He has presented poetry workshops for statewide organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. He has had poems published in In the Grove\, Time of Singing\, and The Comstock Review\, among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets. He is currently vice president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.  All the Connecting Lights\, published by Finishing Line Press\, is his first full-length collection.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-nancy-aide-gonzalez-and-gary-thomas/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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