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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
DESCRIPTION:Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on December 10th at 2 pm in the Gemperle Gallery–click here or on the image at right to view the PDF flyer. \nFeatured readers for the December reading: \nAngela Morales Salinas was born in Cerritos\, San Luis Potosi\, Mexico\, and emigrated to the United States as a child. She has lived in the San Joaquin Valley for most of her life\, and taught Kindergarten for twenty-seven of her forty-year career as an educator. She has been published locally\, and was proud to be included in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press\, 2011). Angela was there when the Licensed Fools came into existence\, and is happily continuing her foolish ways. \nBorn in Los Angeles\, Mark Nicoll-Johnson has lived in Modesto since 1980. In 2014\, he retired after nearly 40 years of teaching\, the last 24 of which as a member of the Department of English at Merced College\, where at one time or another he counted among his colleagues Angela Morales and Meg Withers. \nLinda Toren is a retired elementary school teacher who lives in the foothills of Calaveras County along with her husband\, a horse\, chickens\, two goats\, a box turtle\, and cats and dogs.  She teaches poetry in two local schools\, is an active Friend of the Library and belongs to two writer’s groups—Licensed Fools (Modesto/Turlock) and Pine Grove Writer’s Group (PGWG—“Pig Wigs”.) Her most current poems appear in Out of the Fire by Manzanita Press. \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). Shadowed: Unheard Voices (Press at Fresno State 2014). The latter was edited with Joell Hallowell. The basis for Meg’s work is concern with the attempt to silence voices.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-carnegie-4/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
DESCRIPTION:Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on February 25th at 2 pm in the Gemperle Gallery–click here or on the image at right to view the PDF flyer. \nFeatured readers for the February reading: \nAnn Williams Bailey has been a part of the Central Valley writing community since the early 1970’s\, collaborating with other writers\, artists\, and various creative organizations. She has been an enthusiastic participant in writers’ groups\, small presses\, ekphrastic shows\, writing retreats\, and\, for ten years\, spoken word performances in collaboration with Stockton’s New Dance Company\, both locally and in the Bay Area\, including the San Francisco Legion of Honor. Given the option\, she prefers to paint portraits and write landscapes. \nA native Californian\, Brian Wright is a retired high school English teacher who divides his time between the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada. His poems appear in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets and several local publications including 4 More. He is active in The Healing Power of Writing\, a Bay Area Writer’s group comprised of cancer survivors and caregivers. \nMarisol Baca is the author of Tremor from Three Mile Harbor Press. She has been published in Narrative Northeast\, Riverlit\, Shadowed: An Anthology of Women Writers\, and others. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University\, where she won the Robert Chasen Poetry award. Currently\, Marisol is an English professor at Fresno City College.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-carnegie-5/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the Awards Ceremony for this year’s Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest! First\, second and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards from the MoSt Poetry Center. Prizes are: First Place $25\, Second Place $15\, Third Place $10. In addition\, the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will award a $60 Aileen Jaffa Outstanding Poem award in each of two combined categories\, Categories 1 and 2\, and Categories 3 and 4. The current president of the NLAPW Modesto chapter will present the awards\, and you’ll get to hear a reading featuring the winning poems.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/aileen-jaffa-poetry-contest-awards-ceremony-2/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180826T140000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our quarterly reading series! Download the PDF flyer at right\, and read more about our featured poets below: \nLinda Marie Prather has five published chapbooks\, the latest being Painting Your Absence (Dry Creek Press.) Unforced Rhythms (Finishing Line Press) won 3rd Place award in the NLAPW 2014 Letters Competition. Her full-length book\, Summer Song\, was published in 2016. She edits for Song of The San Joaquin\, is a member of National League of American Pen Women\, in Arts and Letters. Her poetry appears in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky/ The Modesto Poets. Linda is published widely and has received prizes from Penumbra\, Poets’ Dinner Contest\, Ina Coolbrith Circle\, the Golden Pegasus Award\, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. \n\nI was born into the name of Janette Jameson in Santa Cruz\, California. At seven\, my family moved to Torreon\, Mexico\, where my father became a principal of an American School. As a second grader\, I was thrust into a new language and culture. I received a bilingual education\, learning my times tables in Spanish and my addition in English. I experienced the constant back-and-forth between two worlds\, and as a result was outsider to both. \nI have always loved words—their use and their layered meanings. They feel almost tangible—to be worked with and at times played with. I have also always read\, since picking up my first Nancy Drew mystery and spending most of the day on the couch until the end of the book. In being bilingual\, I am very aware of the nuances in words and how much can be lost in translation. Bridges are important metaphors as well as a space where no language exists. The challenge in poetry is bringing words to places that already stand alone. I try to capture brief moments of observed life which become a springboard for a later poem. \nI’m a retired social worker\, married with two young adult daughters. I’ve lived in Modesto for the past twenty-six years\, still looking for home perhaps by an oak tree. \n\nDana Koster is the author of Binary Stars (Carolina Wren Press 2017). She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her poems have appeared in EPOCH\, Indiana Review\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, MUZZLE\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Radar Poetry\, and many others. She lives in Modesto\, California with her husband and two sons\, where she works as a wedding photographer. \n\nIfe-Chudeni A. Oputa is a writer\, editor\, and the author of Rummage\, which won the 2015 Little A Poetry Contest and is a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is a Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and Lambda Literary fellow. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Crab Orchard Review\, Some Call it Ballin\, Gabby\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. She is a native of Fresno\, CA.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-8-2018/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181202T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our quarterly reading series! Download the PDF flyer at right\, and read more about our featured poets below: \nJames Weaver has published his first book\, Writing Therapy. Included in the collection are poems previously published in Penumbra\, Susurrus\, Collision IV\, Suisun Valley Review\, as well as other journals in California. On reputation alone\, this poet has the crowd snapping at their seats and enjoys connecting with the audience. When he’s not doing poetry\, he enjoys spending time with family and friends. \nJoseph Nolan is a practicing attorney. Joseph self-published three books of poems in 2017: Human Grace\, Cats Can’t Use Straws\, and Sky Gardens. Joseph likes to work in rhyme and meter\, writing mostly shorter poems. His writing has been published in the Sacramento Voices anthology (2017) and will be published in its upcoming 2018 Edition\, in Poetry Now\, an online quarterly journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center\, and in Collision V\, an anthology of poetry from local poets in combination with artistic photography from local professional photographers. He is an active member of the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. \nCamille Norton’s book\, A Folio for the Dark\, was chosen for publication by Sixteen Rivers Press during its 2017 open reading period. It will appear in the spring of 2019. Her first book of poems\, Corruption\, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner\, published by HarperPerennial in 2005. Her work has appeared in Field\, The Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, and in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. One of her poems in A Folio for the Dark\,“ The Prison Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone\,” was published in The Best American Poetry of 2010. Camille grew up outside of Philadelphia and studied English and American Literature at Harvard University. A Professor of English at University of the Pacific\, in Stockton\, CA since 1994\, she teaches courses in poetry\, gender studies\, and critical theory. She has worked collaboratively with artists and composers since the early 1990’s\, when she co-edited Resurgent: New Writing by Women\, an anthology of experimental writing by women in literature\, film\, and the visual arts. She lives in Stockton\, near the San Joaquin River\, and is at home in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry explores the interstices between artistic expression and the political systems that define who reads\, who writes\, and who is remembered. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and nine previous small press collections and online chapbooks.  Her work has appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-12-2018/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190217T140000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the first 2019 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. \nDerek D. Brown is an author\, poet\, and venture expressionist based in Los Angeles. His premiere collection of poems entitled Articulate Scars: Comfortable Silences and Reluctant Tears\, was met with wide acclaim from poetry virgins and seasoned wordsmiths alike. He’s a highly coveted featured attraction throughout Southern California\, whose mix of humor and truth in punchy poems has deeply embedded him in the fabric of the poetry scene. \nBrian Dunlap is a native Angeleño who still lives in Los Ángeles. He explores and captures the city’s stories that are hidden in plain sight. He is the author of the chapbook Concrete Paradise (2018) from Finishing Line Press. Dunlap is the winner of the 2018 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize from december magazine judged by former Los Ángeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez. His poems and book reviews have been published in Angel City Review\, CCM-Entropy\, California Quarterly and Dryland\, among others. He runs the blog site www.losangelesliterature.wordpress.com\, a resource to explore L.A.’s vast literary culture. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and nine previous small press collections and online chapbooks.  Her work has appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-feb-2019/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the Awards Ceremony for this year’s Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest! First\, second and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards from the MoSt Poetry Center. Prizes are: First Place $25\, Second Place $15\, Third Place $10. In addition\, the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will award a $60 Aileen Jaffa Outstanding Poem award in each of two combined categories\, Categories 1 and 2\, and Categories 3 and 4. The current president of the NLAPW Modesto chapter will present the awards\, and you’ll get to hear a reading featuring the winning poems.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/aileen-jaffa-poetry-contest-awards-ceremony-3/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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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:20191201T140000
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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:20200202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T160000
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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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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the August edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, August 16th at 2:00 P. M.\, featuring three wonderful poets:  Linda Jackson Collins\, Bob Stanley\, and Jenny Tang!  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center\, this time we’ll be on ZOOM.  Join us\, too\, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! \n\nOur Featured Readers: \nOriginally from Washington\, D.C.\, Linda Jackson Collins studied English and Business at Vanderbilt. Linda rediscovered poetry about a decade ago\, and her first book\, Painting Trees\, came out from Random Lane Press in 2019. \nLinda served on the Sacramento Poetry Center’s board for many years and edited its poetry journal\, Tule Review. She continues to write and collaborate with other poets from her home in Carmichael where she lives with her husband\, Rob. \n\nBob Stanley has organized and led writing programs and classes for nearly fifty years.  He has edited two regional anthologies and published three collections of his own work: Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger (Rattlesnake Press\, 2009)\, Eleven Blue Strings (little m press\, 2012)\, and Miracle Shine (CW Books\, 2013). Bob served as Poet Laureate of Sacramento City and County from 2009 to 2012\, and he lives in Sacramento with his wife\, Joyce Hsiao. \n\n        Jenny Tang grew up traveling back and forth between Phoenix\, Arizona and Beijing\, China. She was first exposed to poetry through attending CalSlam performances at UC Berkeley\, and has been featured in LoReLi (Look Read Listen) China\, performed as a Sacrificial Poet in the 2019 Chill List Team Competition\, and a winner of the 2019 Poet’s Corner Poetry Contest. She is currently a member of the Central Valley Poets Collective. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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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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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Download the PDF Flyer here! \nPlease join us for the February edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, February 21st at 2:00 P.M.\, featuring local poets Ed Bearden and Cleo Griffith.  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/83974391144 \nOpen Mic Time follows\, including poems from the New Year’s Poetry Challenge. \nFree and open to the public. Join us in celebrating the written and spoken word! \n\nEd Bearden has been published in Penumbra\, Quercus Review\, In The Grove and the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets.  He is the recipient of the 2007 Award in Literary Arts presented by the Stanislaus Arts Council.  His poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations.  He was the 2008-2012 Poet Laureate for the City of Modesto.  His work is scheduled to appear later this year in Evening Street Review. \nCleo Griffith was Chair of the Editorial Board of Song of the San Joaquin for its first twelve years and remains on the Board in its 17th year.  She is vice-president of the Modesto branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Widely published\, she lives in Salida\, California with her cats Amber and Neil.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-2-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T140000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the May edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, May 23rd 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. Join us\, too\, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! \nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85841157090 \nClick here to download the PDF flyer. \n\nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full-blooded Pocho\, Spanglish-speaking poeta who has been an active part of la Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years.  He was a founding member of outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long-running monthly Chicanx/Latinx reading series “Speaking Axolotl” which happens the 3rd Thursday of every month in el Zoom mundo.  Josiah’s book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos is being released  this April from Black Freighter Press. \nWhether sharing stages with legendary beat poets or your favorite Hip Hop emcees\, Andru Defeye’s unorthodox writing and performance style has made him a fixture behing microphones around the country.  2020 saw the release of his critically acclaimed Frequency album\, followed shortly after by his crowning as the youngest Poet Laureate in California capitol history.  From Sacramento to Staten Island and SXSW\,  Andru served as the Director of Communications for Sol Collective from 2009-2020.  In 2014 Defeye founded Zero Forbidden Goals\, a support system for creatives dedicated to innovating arts equity\, experiences\, and education.  ZFG’s guerilla art activations including National Guerilla Poetry Month\, Chainlink Poetry\, and The Intersection have been covered and recreated around the globe. \nAngela Drew is a mother\, dancer\, poet\, and spoken word performer who has loved the rhythm of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, CA\, she began writing at age eight and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. Thus\, her lifelong love affair with storytelling began. Angela has performed at various venues throughout Modesto\, Sacramento and Bay Areas\, including Modesto Junior College\, Modesto’s inaugural “Ill List Poetry Slam” at the State Theater\, the Gallo Center for the Arts\, in a Sankofa Community Theater production of The Journey—The African American Experience\, and the Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts\, Turlock and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s poetry event “Words Worth Speaking\,” to name a few. Angela’s spoken word piece\, “BWE: The Black Woman Experience” was recently featured at the 2020 NAACP Modesto/Stanislaus Virtual Black Graduates Recognition Ceremony and her poetry was included in COLLISION VI\, the February 2020 exhibit at the Mistlin Gallery which featured poet-photographer collaborations.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-5-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Poetry On Sunday Series featuring Dane Cervine & Stella Beratlis
DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine for the Sunday\, August 15th edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00 P. M. Pacific Time.   \nStella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink (2015) and her latest collection\, Dust Bowl Venus (May 2021).  Her poems have appeared in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us:  Poems from the San Franciso Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2010) and California Fire and Water:  A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets\, 2020).  Beratis served as Modesto’s poet laureate from 2016-2020 and works as a librarian there. \nDane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag)\, and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword\, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii.  Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark Father\, How Therapists Dance\, The Jeweled Net of Indra\, and What a Father Dreams.  Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich\, Tony Hoagland\, the Atlanta Review\, Caesura\, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  His work appears in The SUN\, the Hudson Review\, TriQuarterly\, Poetry Flash\, Catamaran\, Miramar\, Rattle\, Sycamore Review\, and Pedestal Magazine\, among others.  You can read more about Dane at his blog: https://danecervine.typepad.com/ \nHere is the Zoom link to the reading: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375142037\nMeeting ID: 833 7514 2037 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83375142037# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83375142037# US (Houston) \nStella’s latest book\, Dust Bowl Venus\, and Dane’s new book\, The World is God’s Language\, have recently been published by Sixteen Rivers Press. For more information about the authors and the books\, go to these pages on the Sixteen Rivers site: \nhttps://sixteenrivers.org/authors/stellaberatlis/ \nhttps://sixteenrivers.org/authors/dane-cervine/ \nOur usual Open Mic Time will follow the featured readers.  We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegieaugust2021/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry On Sunday Series Reading: November 21\, 2021 \nJoin host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Gerald Fleming\, Michael Meyerhofer\, And Melchor Sahagun III  for the November 21st\, 2021 edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00 P. M. Pacific Time. \nGerald Fleming‘s The Bastard and the Bishop is his third Hanging Loose Press title. Previous are Night of Pure Breathing and One\, an experiment in monosyllabic prose poems. He’s published two books with Sixteen Rivers Press (Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore and The Choreographer) and recently edited The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel\, also a Sixteen Rivers title. He’s edited literary magazines traditional\, vitreous\, and epistolary. \nMichael Meyerhofer’s fifth poetry book\, Ragged Eden\, was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2019. He has been the startled recipient of the James Wright Poetry Award\, the Brick Road Poetry Book Prize\, and other honors. He is also the author of a fantasy series\, and serves as the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review. For more information and an embarrassing childhood photo\, visit troublewithhammers.com. \nMelchor Sahagun III says\, “I do stuff; like Poetry\, Skateboarding\, Music\, Comic Books\, that sort of stuff. I’m in my late thirties\, but I somehow feel simultaneously younger and much older than I am—it’s weird. I’m weird. You’re weird. Life is weird. I don’t really know what I’m doing\, to be honest\, but that’s all right because neither do you. I like my cats\, A LOT. I like you a lot\, too.” \nOur usual Open Mic Time will follow the featured readers.  We look forward to seeing you! \nMoSt Poetry Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n\nTopic: MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series Reading–November 21\, 2021\nTime: Nov 21\, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81515649176\n\nMeeting ID: 815 1564 9176\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81515649176# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81515649176# US (Tacoma)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\nMeeting ID: 815 1564 9176\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kk6IhuChP\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-11-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series featuring Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore
DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore for the February 13th\, 2022 edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00pmPacific Time.          \nHeather Altfeld’s second book of poems\, Post Mortem\, published in 2021 by Orison Books\, was selected by Eric Pankey for the 2019 Orison Prize.  Her first book\, The Disappearing Theatre\, won the 2015 Poets at Work Prize.  She is the 2017 recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.  Her work appears or is forthcoming in Conjunctions Magazine\, Aeon\, Orion Magazine\, Narrative\, ZYZZYVA\, Poetry Northwest\, and others.  She teaches in the Honors Program and for the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University\, Chico. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \nTroy Jollimore is the author of four books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews.  His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006.  His third\, Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times’ list of the best books of poetry published in 2015.  His most recent collection of poetry\, Earthly Delights\, was published by Princeton University Press in 2021.  He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico.  His poems have appeared in publications including the New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, and The Best American Poetry 2020. \n  \nTo attend the February 13\, 2022  Poetry on Sunday Series reading\, please register using the link below. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucuGtrDIvHNMw1JjSYCkeUpOrZlGJHTMR \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-february-13-2022-at-200pm-pacific-time-featuring-troy-jollimore-and-heather-altfeld/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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