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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Erin Rodoni & Dana Koster
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center invites you to the first Second Tuesday Poetry reading of 2022\, featuring Erin Rodoni and Dana Koster.  \nWhen: Tuesday\, January 11\, 2022 at 7 pm PST\nWhere: Zoom (RSVP https://tinyurl.com/4c3byekj)\n \nERIN RODONI\nErin Rodoni’s most recent book is And if the Woods Carry You\, winner of the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her two previous collections are: Body\, in Good Light and A Landscape for Loss. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies such as Blackbird\, Poetry Northwest\, and Best New Poets. She has won awards from AWP\, Ninth Letter\, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She teaches at the Writing Salon in San Francisco and serves on the board of the Marin Poetry Center.  \nAnd if the Woods Carry You\, Winner of the 2020 Michael Waters Poetry Prize: On the brink of climate catastrophe\, a mother grappling with her choice to bring children into an apocalyptic world sends her daughters into the woods of fairy tale as a rite of initiation. The woods carry her fears of extinction— devastating fires\, rising seas\, and the predatory dangers of girlhood—but also contain the transformative magic of love\, interdependence\, and renewal. And if the Woods Carry You roots into the wild heart of motherhood\, where worry and wonder intertwine. \n“Like all great fairy tales\, Erin Rodoni’s poems are a glorious marriage of the domestic and the dangerous. There are tests and transformations\, solitudes and sacrifices\, births and burials. Everything is changing into something else\, something energized\, erotic\, and enchanted. But it is the poet’s attention to craft that lifts these poems from the beguiling world of mere narrative into the more magical realm of art. In language that feels both ancient and current\, Rodoni manages to craft lyrics that seem to come from some other world while speaking truths to this one. This is a marvelous book with a poetic voice to enliven even the wildest woods.” –Dean Rader\, author of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and Landscape Portrait Figure Form \nDANA KOSTER\nDana Koster was born in St. Paul\, Minnesota and grew up in Ventura\, California. She earned her English degree from UC Berkeley and MFA in poetry from Cornell University. From 2011-2013\, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in Modesto\, California with her husband and two sons\, where she works as a wedding photographer\, occasional freelance writer and half of the art partnership Broad Sides with her collaborator\, Chelsea America. \nDana’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in EPOCH\, Indiana Review\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, PN Review\, Clackamas Literary Review\, THRUSH Poetry Journal and many others.  She has work in the anthologies America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience\, Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books\, Haiku of the Living Dead and More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. In 2012\, she was the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award. Her first book\, Binary Stars\, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2017. She makes a lot of claims about immortality and ghosts on her twitter account. \n“We need a new word (astro-tropism?) for the poetry of Binary Stars. For the way it leaps into stellar depths to cast a gaze sharp as a hummingbird’s beak back on the extended family cluster. Two stars\, a larger and a smaller\, in tight rotation\, yield binary poems in clumps and couplets in the first-person dual and second-person singular: to the baby\, the husband (with orbiting cows\, horses\, and almonds)\, the burned-out but still gravitational father-in-law and mother\, and the therapist\, whose analytical gaze is returned with equal intensity. Koster has written a domestic poetry not “of the heart\,” not soft-focused\, but of the barycenter\, the binary center of gravity\, in which the familiar\, thrown off kilter\, becomes alienated\, estranged\, and new. Dare you read a poetry at the white heat? Then open Binary Stars\, an incandescent book of the first magnitude.”\n—John Shoptaw\, author of Times Beach \n 
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