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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Gillian Wegener are pleased to welcome Sixteen Rivers Press poets Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday April 13\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94208575176 and sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets. \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\n\nStella Beratlis grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her first collection of poems\, Alkali Sink\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2015 and was a nominee for the Northern California Book Awards in poetry. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals\, including Harbor Review\, Penumbra\, Song of the San Joaquin\, In-Posse Review\, and California Quarterly\, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets\, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press\, 2011) and served as the poet laureate of Modesto from 2016 to 2020. Beratlis lives and works as a librarian in Modesto. \nAbout Dust Bowl Venus: \nWith tenderness\, wit\, and humor\, Dust Bowl Venus explores the fragility of love\, good health\, and the Earth. Rooted not just in the city of Modesto but also in the music\, legends\, and community of the Central Valley\, these poems brilliantly reflect a struggle to find beauty in the contradictions of our contemporary lives. Amazingly thoughtful and musical\, these are poems we should all read. —Judy Halebsky\, author of Spring and a Thousand Years and Sky=Empty \n“The poems in Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus ring with the clarity of a shovel strike against stone\, each line cracking against the next\, igniting spark after glorious spark. And yet\, like the seasonal lake bed on which Modesto sits\, like the many hands ‘making mud out of dry soil\,’ every poem aches toward tenderness. In one poem\, Beratlis asks ‘What grows here?’ before revealing the bounty—heirloom tomatoes\, holy basil\, kindness—that can be coaxed from this ‘city of drought.’ But darker things grow here\, too: a tumor ‘the consistency of a potato\,’ fear\, terror that ‘builds cell by sticky cell.’ Here\, to grow\, and to love\, is to risk vulnerability. These’“bone-and-ligament / narratives’ of grief and yearning\, illness and healing\, perseverance and resistance\, beat with so much heart in this fiercely beautiful book.”  —Erin Rodoni\, author of Body\, in Good Light and A Landscape for Loss \n“Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus animates California’s Central Valley as a postmodern Prometheus\, an eco-sapient Frankenstein with whom we wrangle\, wrestle\, and fall madly in love. With sass and grit and grace\, Beratlis’s craft is brilliant in its imagistic associations that jolt and jump cut in powers of ten. These poems stir us with the urgency of the Anthropocene and form a ‘mycorrhizal web’ that connects us to the mantle of deep time.”  —Rosa Lane\, author of Chouteau’s Chalk and Tiller North \n\n\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. 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’s work at his blog: https://danecervine.typepad.com/ \nAbout The World Is God’s Language:  \n“Dane Cervine’s new book\, The World Is God’s Language\, is a raft for troubled souls\, a balm for aching hearts\, and a tree of koan-like wisdom nuggets to be squirreled away and returned to again and again. These prose poems often address loss and difficulties but with a lightness of touch that emphasizes the spiritual lessons they can embody. . . . Dane Cervine steadies us with his attention to each word\, his deceptive simplicity of language\, and his calibrated spirituality—which outlines mysteries\, rather than attempting to fill them in. These remarkable poems are Rumi-like pearls.”\n—David Sullivan\, author of Seed Shell Ash \n“Dane Cervine’s poems cast their attention on the everyday—his father’s slippers\, an orange cat\, the last biscuit in a box—and find the extraordinary in what’s in front of all of us. Even when the poems take place in distant locales\, Cervine makes magic with simplicity. Hand in hand\, he takes his readers to the edge\, and willingly\, we jump with him.”\n—Patrice Vecchione\, author of My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-4-2021/
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CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Annual Benefit Gala
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE! \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will hold its benefit on Sunday\, April 25th\, from 2-4 pm\, on Zoom. There will be music\, there will be poetry\, and while we still won’t be able to be in person\, we will share the amazing camaraderie of our poetry community and seriously rejoice in that! \nTo buy tickets\, please go to most2021.eventbrite.com. If you would like to support our gala fundraising effort\, please visit our Fundly page. \nOur featured poets for the event will be longtime MoSt supporters Lee Herrick and Indigo Moor. To download a copy of the flyer\, please click here. \n\nLee Herrick is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower\, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor of the anthology The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books). His poems appear widely in literary magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies such as HERE: Poems for the Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice\, with an introduction by Common; One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form; and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. His prose has appeared in Dear America: Letters of Hope\, Habitat\, Defiance\, and Democracy\, and elsewhere. He served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. Born in Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months\, he teaches at Fresno City College\, where he co-founded the forthcoming Social Justice and Cultural Center\, and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University. \nIndigo Moor is a multi-genre\, award-winning writer and teacher. His second book of poetry\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won the Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first book\, Tap-Root\, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. His stageplay\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award. Indigo is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program—where he studied poetry\, fiction\, and scriptwriting—and a graduate member of the Artist’s Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. A musician and photographer\, Indigo’s collaborations include the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Festival\, the Livermore Ekphrastic Project\, and the Davis Jazz Arts Festival.
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