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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
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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/
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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
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