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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:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Cristina Sandoval & Manny Moreno
DESCRIPTION:The‌ ‌Modesto-Stanislaus‌ ‌Poetry‌ ‌Center‌ ‌features‌ ‌poets Cristina Sandoval and Manny Moreno for the November installment‌ ‌of‌ ‌Second‌ ‌Tuesday‌ ‌Poetry.‌ ‌Join‌ ‌us‌ ‌to hear these two poets read for us as first-time featured poets on Tuesday\,‌ November 9\, at‌ ‌7‌ ‌pm‌\, ‌on‌ ‌Google Meet. Hosted‌ ‌by‌ ‌Stella‌  ‌Beratlis‌ ‌with‌ ‌open‌ ‌mic‌ ‌following‌ ‌the‌ ‌featured‌ ‌readers.‌ ‌  \nGoogle Meet link: https://meet.google.com/yzr-effe-nrh\nOtherwise\, to join by phone\, dial +1 760-654-5100 and enter this PIN: 914 592 889#\n \nSign up for Open Mic: https://forms.gle/v8J9cK9RXn4YDwwc9 \nCRISTINA SANDOVAL \nCristina Sandoval is an MFA student at Fresno State University and a poet to the bone. Cristina has been a purveyor of words since she can remember. She is a proud Chicana and is desperately in love with language. She often mixes her two languages\, Spanish and English\, in an attempt to bridge the beauty and hurt in both. Her work often focuses on family\, mental health\, and finding meaning in the terrible. She has two books on Amazon\, Moon Ride\, and We Need Bad Bitches. Her work has been featured in Penumbra\, Artifact Nouveau\, Exist(ir)\, and Dystopian Dance Party. Her thesis work is centered around the nature of family\, culture\, and hair. She is from Modesto\, California\, and now lives in Fresno. And if you were wondering\, yes\, she misses Mr. T’s Donuts!  \nMANNY MONOLIN \nMonolin “Manny” Moreno is the author of four books\, the most recent of which is a collection of poems\, Longview Road. Manny’s previous works include Scared–Coming Full Circle: A Memoir; his first poetry collection\, The Bridge Is Gone; and The Elder: A Tribute\, about the importance of elders in the community and about two Native American elders in particular.  \nHis poems are about growing up in Livingston\, where his family’s roots were established in the early 1900s\, and about a wide range of topics.  \nManny is a Member of the Black Wolf Honor Society Gourd Clan\, a member of Native American Church and Sundances yearly in South Dakota. Manny is of  Yaqui/Tarascan descent. Manny has been featured in interviews on Native Voice TV\, Channel 10\, Sacramento and Company\, KKUP Radio/Indian Time and Two Roads Productions. He has been a speaker at Modesto Junior College and various events. He was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2011. \nACCESS THE READING:  \nGoogle Meet: To join the video meeting\, click this link: meet.google.com/yzr-effe-nrh \nTo join by phone instead\, dial (US) +1 760-654-5100 and enter this PIN: 914 592 889# \nMore phone numbers: https://tel.meet/yzr-effe-nrh?pin=8948151384183 \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Google Meet
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Julia B. Levine & Matthew Lippman plus open mic
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome poets Julia B. Levine and Matthew Lippman on Tuesday\, October 12\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430. Sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets.  \nJULIA B. LEVINE \nJulia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work\, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection of poetry\, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight\, (LSU press 2014)\, first prize in the 2019 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest\, 2019 Public Poetry Awards\, 2018 Tiferet Poetry Prize\, as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Poetry Prize for Ask\, and the 1998 Anhinga Poetry prize as well as a bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection\, Practicing for Heaven.  Her fifth and most recent collection\, Ordinary Psalms\, is now available from LSU press. \nMATTHEW LIPPMAN\nMatthew Lippman’s collection Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful (2020) is published by Four Way Books. It was the recipient of the 2018 Levis Prize. He is the author of 5 other poetry collections. \nTuesday\, October 12\, 2021 at 7 pm PDT \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430 \nOpen Mic signup: https://forms.gle/j6dsvm31MA2377Pu6 \n———— \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430 \n  \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  +16699006833\,91357899430#  or +12532158782\,91357899430#  \n  \nOr Telephone: \n    Dial: \n    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) \n    +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll) \n    +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll) \n    +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll) \n    +1 301 715 8592 (US Toll) \n    +1 312 626 6799 (US Toll) \n    Meeting ID: 913 5789 9430 \n 
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LOCATION:CA
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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/
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Nicca Ray and Michelle Cernuto
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center features authors Nicca Ray and Michelle Cernuto for the August installment of Second Tuesday Poetry. Join us for a great mix of poetry\, ghost fiction\, and punk rock memoir on Tuesday\, August 10 at 7 pm on Zooom. Hosted by Stella Beratlis with open mic following the featured readers.\n\nZoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91909197367\nOpen mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday\n\nNICCA RAY\nNicca Ray’s poetry collection\, BACK SEAT BABY\, was recently published by Chris D.’s Poison Fang Books. In the forward\, Ann Magnusun writes\, “Plumbing the depths of uncertainty and loneliness\, Ray finds gold in the collective swamplands of our souls.” The poet\, Charles Plymell\, calls Back Seat Baby the “High Noon of poetry.”\n\nNicca Ray’s memoir RAY BY RAY: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY (Three Rooms Press\, 2020) has been called “harrowing\, beautifully written and near-impossible to put down” by Shelf Awareness and “a daring revelation of strength and survival\, told unflinchingly\, bravely\, with empathy\, sympathy and ultimately an understanding of a great artist who is almost impossible to fathom\,” by Ronee Blakely\, actress\, singer and Academy Award nominee.\nNicca is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2020 Acker Award recipient.\n\nMICHELLE CERNUTO\nMichelle Cernuto is the author of the recently published YOU USED TO KNOW ME\, a fictional coming-of-age account of growing up in Las Vegas in the 80s.\n\n“A mash note from beyond the grave to a lost Vegas. 1980s punk teen dysfunction… a melancholic travelogue through a spiritual wasteland. The self-effacing murder victim gives us a matter-of-fact\, blow-by-blow commentary as she haunts both her friends and her predator in a suburban\, desert dystopia…. We see ominous harbingers of Death rushing headlong towards us\, much like an out-of-control carnival ride…locked into one final\, endlessly accelerating rollercoaster to oblivion. There’s no getting off\, and the effect is harrowing and masterful.– Chris D. (author of No Evil Star\, Dragon Wheel Splendor and Other Love Stories of Violence and Dread\, Mother’s Worry\, et.al.; singer/songwriter of the bands The Flesh Eaters and Divine Horsemen)\n\n“A vivid recollection of a crazy time in the crazy place of the American Southwest…a transitional time before entire cities were turned into theme parks. Magically real\, her story echoes the truth of the women I grew up with\, who fought an oppression they could feel empirically but not always articulate with street smarts and sheer guts. And then there are the ghosts…” – Victor Krummenacher (of bands Camper Van Beethoven\, Monks of Doom and The Third Mind) \n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91909197367\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,91909197367# or +13462487799\,91909197367#\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+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 919 0919 7367\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/aeu6vPmQF
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to feature poets Indigo Moor and Jennifer K. Sweeney for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday June 8\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm (https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94454258218). Open mic (3 mins each poet\, maximum 10 poets) following the featured poets. \nJoin reading: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94454258218 \nOpen mic following featured readers. To sign up:  https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nJennifer K. Sweeney  \nJennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently Foxlogic\, Fireweed\, winner of the Backwaters Prize from Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska. Her other collections are Little Spells (New Issues Press\, 2015)\, How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia Press)\, and Salt Memory (Main Street Rag). She is the recipient of many awards\, including the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, the Perugia Press Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize.  She teaches poetry workshops at the University of Redlands in California\, and is known for a decade-long practice of private instruction and manuscript critique. \nFoxlogic\, Fireweed can be purchased from the University of Nebraska Press\, linked from Jennifer’s website: https://www.jenniferksweeney.com/ \nAbout FOXLOGIC\, FIREWEED \n“Foxlogic\, Fireweed is a torn map of a state where all words are proximate to mystery. Venturing into terra incognita\, into territory that might be anima mundi\, maybe\, reader\, you think you know the lineaments\, but they are altered. Altared. Yes\, to dream space\, but wilder\, wider—this metal into bird\, stone into air\, mother into vulpine. Sweeney is breathing strangeness into a small body of words\, and the expanses open exponentially.”—Marsha de la O \n​“The logic of Foxlogic\, Fireweed is human and humane; it’s the logic of a penetrative tenderness and an embodiment always on the verge of dispersing into fox\, or deer\, or rain. . . . These are not bandwagon poems. They don’t mug for the camera. Rather\, they enact a love ‘sourced in loneliness’ where ‘with our little keys of witness’ we find each other—the very definition of the lyric poem.”—Diane Seuss \n\nIndigo Moor \nIndigo Moor is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento. His fourth book of poetry\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. Indigo is an adjunct professor at Dominican University and visiting faculty for Dominican’s MFA program\, teaching poetry and short fiction. \nIndigo is a former faculty member at the Stonecoast MFA Program\, where he graduated in 2012 with an MFA in poetry\, fiction\, and scriptwriting. He’s a playwright as well: his full-length stageplay\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award\, and the subsequent screenplay has been optioned for a full-length film. \nIndigo is a Cave Canem fellow\, former resident artist at 916 ink\, and a graduate member of the Artist’s Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. \nA 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Designer for computer companies. \nAbout EVERYBODY’S JONESIN’ FOR SOMETHING \n“Narratives don’t always belong to history’s victors\,’’ writes Indigo Moor. If this line gives you pause\, I strongly suggest you carry Moor’s brilliant book\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, home with you. In this dazzling book\, you will read just how closely this poet has been paying attention\, to us\, to his histories\, foreign and domestic\, to our mighty (and sometimes mighty confusing) nation. Jonesin’ is a verse flashlight to all the corners you thought no one was supposed to pay attention to\, line by beautifully crafted line\, truth by earned truth. You’ll reach the last line of the last poem\, and trust me\, that’s when the hunger for more will begin.”—Cornelius Eady\, author of The War Against the Obvious \n“Indigo Moor’s new collection shuttles between searing rebuke and hopeful anguish with accents of hard-edged humor. What I love most is the clarity of thought—the no-holds-barred\, no-punches-pulled sharpness of the language that carries the reader through each poem\, jonesin’ for the next. Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something invites you out of your complacency and fuels a restlessness that reminds you that you’re alive\, that this is no time for sleeping.”—Tim Seibles\, author of One Turn around the Sun
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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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.
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LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to feature poets Lelania Fowler and Salvatore Salerno for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday May 11\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm (https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92855890148) and sign up for open mic (3 mins each poet\, maximum 10 poets) following the featured poets. \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92855890148 \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nLelania Fowler \nBorn and reared on the Eastside of Santa Barbara\, California\, Lelania Fowler experienced a Chicano/Hippie hybrid childhood. Later as a homeless teen\, she bounced between Long Beach\, Hollywood\, and her hometown of Santa Barbara before relocating to Sacramento. In the late 1980s\, she became part of a thriving music and arts scene and she began songwriting for local musicians.She writes about PTSD\, sexual violence\, California nature themes\, and is a mental health activist.Her poetry has most recently been published in Quiet Rooms\, a global anthology published by Cold River Press. Under a Milk Glass Moon is her first collection of poetry. \nAbout Under a Milk Glass Moon: \n“An excellent debut collection of poetry. Lelania’s long strophic lines and sparkler-like images propel these excursions into another realm. The work is not lyrical or narrative but cuts a lovely landscape between these genres. Refreshing to read and re-read.”  –D.R. Wagner \n“Lelania Fowler’s Under A Milk Glass Moon is\, I am convinced\, a collection of hymns to the Hindu goddess Kali\, Mother of All\, adorned in her necklace of human heads. There is a female energy in this writing to which I\, as a male\, have been blind and deaf\, a feminine language in which I am not fluent. Even so\, the poems themselves contain keys to help me unlock doors I\nnever knew existed.” —Robert Lee Haycock \n  \nSalvatore Salerno \nSalvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from University of North Carolina\, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He is retired from teaching English and Drama at Grace Davis High School. More than 120 of his poems have been published in numerous periodicals. His latest poetry book is Hello\, Posterity. He has also independently published volumes of nonfiction\, plays\, and short stories. \nSalvatore is a board member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, and he is also the president of the Stanislaus Audubon Society. He is the current poet laureate of Modesto.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-5-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T140000
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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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/annual-benefit-gala-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T203000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Cathryn Shea for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday\, March 9\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96055243749 \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nIris Jamahl Dunkle writes and lives in Northern California.  An award-winning literary biographer\, essayist\, and poet\, her academic and creative work challenges the western myth of progress by examining the devastating impact that agriculture and overpopulation have had\, and continue to have\, on the North American West. Taking an ecofeminist bent\, her writing also challenges the American West’s androcentric recorded history by researching the lives of women. As Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, she witnessed first-hand the devastating 2017 wildfires. These fires were the catalyst for her latest collection of poetry West : Fire : Archive and her investigation of her family’s migration to California during the Dust Bowl. Twitter: @irjohnso \nCathryn Shea’s poetry has been published in New Orleans Review\, Typishly\, After the Pause\, burntdistrict\, Permafrost\, Tar River Poetry\, and elsewhere; she has also been shortlisted or selected for a variety of poetry prizes\, including winning the Marjorie J. WIlson Award\, judged by Charles Simic. She’s the author of four chapbooks and her first full-length collection\, Genealogy Lesson for the Laity\, was just published in September 2020 by Unsolicited Press of Portland\, Oregon. Poet Thomas Centolella author of Almost Human (Tupelo Press\, winner of the Dorset Prize)\,Terra Firma\, Lights & Mysteries\, and Views from along the Middle Way  (Copper Canyon)\, notes the following about Cathryn’s work: “Focused chiefly on the domestic life\, with all its “important confusion\,” but also ranging into the transpersonal\, Shea holds a particular regard for subjects that have vanished or are on the verge of vanishing\, and does her best to rescue them with her appealingly quirky style\, sometimes comic\, sometimes melancholy\, and always vested with affection.”  Follow Cathryn on Twitter: @cathy_shea.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-3-3021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T160000
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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:20210209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Josiah Luis Alderete and Anthony Cody for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday Feb. 9\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91076973120 \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho Spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAnthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn\, April 2020)\, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Contest selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry \, and longlisted for the PEN America / Jean Stein Book Award. He is a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet and a 2020 Southwest Book Award winner from the Border Regional Library Association. A CantoMundo fellow from Fresno\, California\, Anthony has lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. His poetry has appeared in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day\, Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, Prairie Schooner\, TriQuarterly\, The Boiler\, ctrl+v journal\, among others. Anthony is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle where he co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is a recent MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Conference. Anthony won the inaugural 2020 CantoMundo Guzmán Mendoza / Paredez Fellowship for his work-in-progress poetry manuscript\, “The Rendering”\, selected by Aracelis Girmay. He serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press and a poetry editor for Omnidawn.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-2-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis as we present the first Second Tuesday Poetry reading of 2021! Helping us ring in this year are featured poets Sam Pereira and Dawn Trook\, followed by a dynamic open mic. \nSam Pereira is from Los Banos\, California; he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University\, Fresno and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa\, where he was a student in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His books include The Marriage of the Portuguese (L’Epervier Press\, 1978)\, Brittle Water (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press\, University of Nebraska at Omaha\, 1987)\,[3] and A Cafe in Boca\, released in 2007 by Tebot Bach. In December\, 2020\, Nine Mile Press published Pereira’s seventh collection of poems\, True North and Untrue You. \nDawn Trook is a writer\, theater producer\, performer\, and educator. She teaches writing at UC Merced. Though she focuses on non-traditional methods of poetry distribution\, she has been published in The Rumpus\, Ms Magazine\, and several literary journals. \nJoin us at 7 via Zoom:  https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99542317135 \nOpen mic signups at https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-jan-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:The MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER and your host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Odilia Galván Rodríguez and Meg Withers for Second Tuesday Poetry on December 8\, 2020. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91826874769 \n\nOdilia Galván Rodríguez is a poet\, writer\, editor\, publisher\, and social justice activist\, the author of six volumes of poetry. Her latest is The Color of Light\, FlowerSong Books\, 2019. She is a long-time community organizer and volunteer and has been the editor for Matrix Women’s News Magazine\, Community Murals Magazine and Tricontinental Magazine in Havana\, Cuba. She currently edits two journals: Cloud Women’s Quarterly and Anacua Literary Arts. \nGalván Rodríguez co-founded the Facebook page “Poets Responding\,” and co-authored the groundbreaking\, award winning anthology\, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, University of Arizona Press. Her poetry and writings have appeared in numerous anthologies\, and literary journals. She is a practitioner of Indigenous Spiritual and Healing Traditions and strives to live a simple life based on the indigenous worldview of her ancestors. \n\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)\, and Shadowed: Unheard Voices (Press at Fresno State 2014). \nHer fourth book\, Particular Odyssey: In Search\, is forthcoming from Prickly Pear Press\, and is likely to be published in 2021\, barring the unforeseen circumstances of life these days. The basis for Meg’s work is concern with the attempt to silence voices. \nOpen mic follows the featured readers. Please sign up in advance at https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-12-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T203000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the NOVEMBER installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series on November 10th at 7:00 pm\, hosted by Stella Beratlis. We are pleased to feature poets Aideed Medina of Fresno and Jon Grammatico of Modesto. \n\nAideed Medina\, poet and spoken word artist\, creates and performs poetry in English\, or Spanish\, as dictated by the inspiration of each individual piece. She enjoys mentoring high school students under the direction of the Fresno Poet Laureate\, Bryan Medina\, with the Poetry Out Loud Program\, and for youth slam competitions throughout the California central valley. She was honored to be the 2017 Representative for the Loud Mouth Poetry Slam of Visalia\, CA at the Women of the World Poetry Slam DTX\, and recently received the 2017 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award for her contributions to the city’s artistic and cultural scene in the category of individual artist. She is currently working on her first two manuscripts\, “A California Dime” and “Mis Papelitos.” Her work has appeared in Revista Literaria Austral\, Fresno State’s Club Austral literary magazine and Flies\, Cockroaches and Poets\, the Chicano Writers and Artists Association journal. Online she has work on La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Art of the Commune: La comuna\, and as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix\, Fresno Grand Opera. \nJon Grammatico has been writing poems since his high school days but began reading at local open mics last year. Jon received his Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and his Master of Social Work from Stanislaus State. He currently works as a social worker with Stanislaus County in the Public Health Department\, functioning as the HIV/AIDS program coordinator and is the recently elected President of MoPride\, the leading LGBTQ+ organization in Stanislaus county. When he is not writing\, Jon spends his time tending to his 30+ house plants\, caring for his two cats and dog\, and listening to music. He currently lives in Turlock\, CA with his partner. \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99171810028 \nOpen mic following the featured readers; sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T203000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Zoom Open Mic Night!
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is offering an Open Mic Poetry Reading to MoSt members and to any other poets in the Stanislaus County community.  This Zoom program will be on Sunday\, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.  The host will be Salvatore Salerno.  All poets are invited to read one or two of their own poems for two to three minutes\, including any introductory remarks.  If they have books that are available\, they can show those works to the audience.  The Zoom invitation will be sent through the MoSt website\, our Facebook page\, and through other publicity venues on Friday\, October 23. There is no prior registration required.  We look forward to hearing your poetry!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-zoom-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200924T221344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T221508Z
UID:1774-1600934400-1600966800@www.mostpoetry.org
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
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-oct-2020/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200901T023030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T023030Z
UID:1709-1600192800-1600200000@www.mostpoetry.org
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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200908T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200817T200122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200831T182024Z
UID:1656-1599591600-1599595200@www.mostpoetry.org
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
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200816T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200816T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200717T211621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200731T225152Z
UID:1538-1597586400-1597593600@www.mostpoetry.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200717T211409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200813T191023Z
UID:1536-1597168800-1597176000@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on August 11th\, 2020\, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Featured readers are Jeanne Wagner and TBA. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our email blast with announcements.  \nZOOM INFO:  \nTopic: Second Tuesday Poetry with Jeanne Wagner and Sara Coito\nTime: Aug 11\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96637283440 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  +16699006833\,96637283440#  or +12532158782\,96637283440# \nOr Telephone:\n    Dial:\n    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n    +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n    +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n    +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n    +1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\n    +1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n    Meeting ID: 966 3728 3440\n    International numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/adCWB3orhv \nOr Skype for Business (Lync):\n    SIP:96637283440@lync.zoom.us
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom-8-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200630T230535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T230608Z
UID:1483-1594749600-1594756800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on July 14th\, 2020\, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer above for more information on our featured poets\, Connie Post and Michael Meyerhofer. \nLive links for reading here:\nFor the open mic: https://padlet.com/beratliss/j0ynareusug2u61c\nFor the Zoom reading: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99196095308
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200604T225224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200604T225224Z
UID:1397-1591725600-1591731000@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - On Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on June 9th\, 2020\, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer above for more information on our featured poets\, Karen Terrey and Dane Cervine.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-6-2020/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200510T051334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200510T051334Z
UID:1386-1589306400-1589311800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León
DESCRIPTION:Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León’s PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1\, with project translators Terry Ehret\, John Johnson\, and Nancy J. Morales. \nPoet\, essayist\, and translator Ulalume González de León believed that “Everything has already been said\,” and\, thus\, that each act of creation is a rewriting\, reshuffling\, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason\, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called Ulalume González de León “the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\,” recognizing the visionary quality of her work. \nPlagios (Plagiarisms)\, just out this year from Sixteen Rivers Press\, is the first of three bilingual volumes of González de León’s work. This first volume presents several short collections of poems González de León produced from 1968 to 1971\, each of which explores the ephemeral nature of identity and its dependence on the ever-shifting ground of language and memory. \nABOUT THE TRANSLATORS \nTerry Ehret\, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press\, has published four collections of poetry\, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series\, the California Book Award\, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize\, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award\, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006\, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches writing. \nNancy J. Morales\, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents\, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College\, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University\, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University\, College of Marin\, Sonoma State University\, and other schools\, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients. \nJohn Johnson’s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals\, including Boxcar Poetry Review\, Clade Song\, Triggerfish Critical Review\, and Web Conjunctions. He is a long-time student of the Spanish language and has studied letter-press printing with Iota Press of Sebastopol\, producing chapbooks and bilingual broadsides. \nZoom at 6 pm: \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android:https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98189086098 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  +16699006833\,98189086098#  or +12532158782\,98189086098#  \nOr Telephone:\n    Dial:\n    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n    +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n    +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n    +1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\n    +1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n    +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n    Meeting ID: 981 8908 6098\n    International numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/aAa63PMfu
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-ulalume-gonzalez-de-leon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200507T193932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T193932Z
UID:1381-1589306400-1589310000@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on May 12th\, 2020\, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Check back here for more information soon\, or email us at info@mostpoetry.org.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200211T235806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200229T212056Z
UID:1327-1583863200-1583870400@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Series featuring Josh McKinney & Lisa Dominguez Abraham
DESCRIPTION:Braid fresh flowers into your hair and perform pagan rituals as we ponder the newly-hatched world of SPRING. \nOr you could just come to this poetry reading! \nJoin Modesto poet laureate Stella Beratlis as she presents featured poets Josh McKinney and Lisa Dominguez Abraham. \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 coeditor of the online ecopoetry zine\, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University\, Sacramento. \nLisa Dominguez Abraham’s poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Review\, North American Review and Poetry East. Her collection Mata Hari Blows a Kiss won the 2016 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest\, and her book Coyote Logic came out from Blue Oak Press in February 2019. She works at Cosumnes River College. \nBring a poem to share during our open mic following the featured poets’ readings. Since it’s almost spring\, let’s explore the themes darkness and light.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/march2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200212T001825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T001825Z
UID:1332-1582311600-1582318800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Words Worth Speaking: Brandon Leake and Angela Drew
DESCRIPTION:The MJC Library & Learning Center and the MJC Black Student Union invite you to a poetry event at the East Campus L & LC. \nFeaturing performers Brandon Leake and Angela Drew. \nBring a poem to read + submit your work to the WWS zine. \nBrandon Leake is an award-winning spoken word poet\, artistic educator\, and motivational speaker from Stockton\, CA. His creative blend of art\, charisma\, and passion tailored to his own unique personal narrative has taken him across the world as a speaker and performer. Brandon has performed in New Zealand\, Mexico\, Canada\, and 36 states around the country for his Dark Side Tour which promotes his first published poetry chapbook and his album Deficients: A Tale From My Dark Side\, a project rooted in transparency and healing. Brandon is also the founder and CEO of Called To Move – CTM\, an arts organization whose mission is to aid youth in self-actualization and personal development through poetry. Through Called to Move\, Brandon had led youth workshops around the world and in his hometown of Stockton. \nAngela Drew is a teacher\, mother\, 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 the 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 at various other venues. Her recent poetry is included in COLLISION VI\, the February 2020 exhibit at the Mistlin Gallery which features poet-photographer collaborations
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/words-worth-speaking-brandon-leake-and-angela-drew/
LOCATION:Modesto Junior College Library & Learning Center\, 435 College Ave.\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T020006
CREATED:20200212T001351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T001351Z
UID:1329-1582225200-1582232400@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Collision VI: Intersection of Photography and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:COLLISION VI: At the Intersection of Poetry and Photography \nJoin us on Thursday\, Feb. 20 at 7:30 pm for artists reception and reading at the Mistlin Gallery. Featuring 17 poets\, 17 photographers\, and 2 painters who merged their talents to create singular work or art consisting of words and images. \nPoets:\nGillian Wegener\nSara Coito\nJosslyn Turner\nLinda Scheller\nAngela Drew\nTheresa Rojas\nLynn Hansen\nMelchor Sahagun\nDan Schmidt\nVielka Solano\nKaren Baker\nStella Beratlis\nCristina Sandoval\nSheila Landre\ndebee lloyd\nLillian Vallee\nSal Salerno \nPhotographers: \nDavid Schroeder\nRebecca Harvey\nMiguel Trejo\nBill Harris\nEm McLaren\nShirley Stevens\nCarolyn Huff\nNoah Wilson\nLorraine Nilson\nKrystle Lisek\nDan Souza\nAdrian Mendoza\nHeath Vanderpol\nJohn Wynn\nAlyn Brereton\nPeter David Lee \nThe COLLISION VI exhibit runs from Feb. 4 – 28. \nCOLLISION VI is a production of FotoModesto\, sponsored by FocusOn\, a not-for-profit corporation.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/collision-vi-intersection-of-photography-and-poetry/
LOCATION:Mistlin Gallery\, 1015 J Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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