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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto.  Featured poets include Zaid Shlah. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-2-2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T160000
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce the details of our 8th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival\, coming up on February 1st\, 2020! \nEach year in February we organize and hold an all-day poetry festival featuring workshops\, readings\, and a featured poet. This year\, we are proud to welcome Lee Herrick and Camille Norton as our guest poets and workshop leaders. \nJoin us on Saturday\, February 1st\, 2020 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Modesto for a day of poetry\, learning\, and inspiration! Click on the image at right to download the PDF flyer\, and you can click here to download the registration form (which also has details about this year’s festival poetry contest). \nThemes for this year’s contest are 1. The Graceful Stumble; 2. Handling Earth with Care; 3. Notre Dame; 4. Following a Thread. Submissions to the poetry contest must be postmarked by the CONTEST DEADLINE: JANUARY 11\, 2020. Please see the form for more information. \n\nLee Herrick has authored three poetry books\, Scar and Flower\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This\nMany Miles from Desire. His poems have also appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (forthcoming in Spring\, 2020 from Orison Books). Born in Daejeon\, Korea\, Lee served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017\, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College and Fresno City College. \nCamille Norton’s first collection of poems\, published by HarperPerennial\, was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004. Other honors include the Grolier Prize in Poetry\, accolades from the National Endowment\nof the Humanities\, and residencies at the MacDowell Art Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Professor of English at University of the Pacific in Stockton\, Camille co-edited Resurgent: New Writing by Women\, featuring experimental writing by women in literature\, film\, and the visual arts. Her latest poetry book is A Folio in the Dark (Sixteen Rivers).
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/8th-annual-modesto-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:St. Paul’s Episcopal Church\, 1528 Oakdale Road\, Modesto\, CA\, 95355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Readings,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-1-2020/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-12-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T170000
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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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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-11-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 15th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto with featured readers Paul Neuman and Amy Miller. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-10-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Odilia Galván Rodríguez
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for a special upcoming poetry reading with poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez at the College Avenue United Church of Christ. \nAbout Odilia Galván Rodríguez (bio: University of Arizona Poetry Center) \nOdilia Galván Rodríguez\, poet\, writer\, editor\, educator\, and activist\, is the author of six volumes of poetry\, her latest\, The Nature of Things\, is a collaboration with Texas photographer\, Richard Loya\, by Merced College Press 2016. Also\, along with the late Francisco X. Alarcón\, she edited the award-winning anthology\, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, University of Arizona Press\, 2016.  This poetry of witness anthology\, the first of its kind\, because it came about because of the on-line organizing work of Alarcón\, Galván Rodriguez\, and other poet-activists which began as a response to the proposal of SB 1070\, the racial profiling law which was eventually passed by the Arizona State Legislature in 2010\, and later that year\, HB 2281which bans ethnic studies. With the advent of the Facebook page Poets Responding (to SB 1070) thousands of poems were submitted witnessing racism\, xenophobia\, and other social justice issues which culminated in the anthology. \nGalván Rodríguez has worked as an editor for various print media such as Matrix Women’s News Magazine\, Community Mural’s Magazine\, and Tricontinental Magazine in Havana\, Cuba. She is currently\, the editor of Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal online; facilitates creative writing workshops nationally\, and is director of Poets Responding (to SB 1070) and Love and Prayers for Fukushima\, both Facebook pages dedicated to bringing attention to social justice issues that affect the lives and wellbeing of many people and encouraging people to act. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies\, and literary journals on and offline. \nAs an activist\, she worked for the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO\, The East Bay Institute for Urban Arts\, has served on numerous boards and commissions\, and is currently active in Women’s organizations whose mission it is to educate around environmental justice issues and disseminate an indigenous world view regarding the earth and people’s custodial relationship to it. Odilia Galván Rodríguez has a long and rich history of working for social justice in solidarity with activists from all ethnic groups.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-reading-odilia-galvan-rodriguez/
LOCATION:College Avenue United Church of Christ\, 1341 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190907T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190907T170000
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SUMMARY:The Writers' Block @ Barnes & Noble
DESCRIPTION:Modesto’s Barnes and Noble is hosting The Writer’s Block\, an afternoon celebration of writing in our area\, on September 7 from noon to 5pm. This event will include panels\, readings\, and book signings. This is also a bookfair fundraiser benefiting Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt). Mention the bookfair or use the ID 12545562 and a percentage of the profits from your purchase will go back to MoSt to support the work we do promoting poetry throughout Stanislaus County. \nThis is going to be a great day! We hope you can stop by!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/the-writers-block-barnes-noble/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble\, 3501 McHenry Ave\, Suite E\, Modesto\, CA\, 95356\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,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:20190813T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on August 13th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto\, featuring poets Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPos Moua is a Hmong-American writer\, educator\, and poet who lives in Merced with his wife and their five children. He is the author of the chapbook “Towards the World Where the Torches Are Burning” (Swan Scythe Press\, 2001)\, the first published work from a Hmong American poet. He has published work in How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology\, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing\, UC Davis Poetry Review\, Sacramento’s “Poetry Now\,” and National Poetry.” Pos Moua’s new book\, Karst Mountains Will Bloom\, was published by Blue Oak Press in April 2019. \nYu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei\, Taiwan. Her poetry books & chapbooks were published by Another New Calligraphy\, BOAAT Press\, Dancing Girl Press\, and University of Nebraska Press. Her new short story collection\, Sex & Taipei City\, is now out with Red Hen Press. She maintains a blog at www.yuhanchao.com about nursing school.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nStay tuned for more info!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on June 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Stella Beratlis and Gillian Wegener. Wegener has been running the Barkin’ Dog series for the past 10 years and is now handing the reins over to Beratlis\, who will carry on with new energy and all her grace and verve and humor. And there will be cake! \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nStella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink and the poet laureate of Modesto. Her work has been published in California Quarterly\, In Posse Review\, hardpan\, Song of the San Joaquin\, Penumbra\, and Quercus Review as well as the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She is a librarian at Modesto Junior College. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two collections of poetry\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (2008) and This Sweet Haphazard (2017). Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and is forthcoming from MockingHeart Review. Wegener is a co-founder of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto\, and started this reading series in June of 2009.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-6-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T170000
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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:20190514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190413T054214Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on May 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPoet and radio commentator Molly Fisk was chosen by the Academy of American Poets as one of the inaugural American Poet Laureate Fellows. She’s also received grants from the NEA and the CA Arts Council. Fisk is the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, among other collections\, and lives in Nevada City\, CA. \nIngrid Keriotis‘ first book of poetry\, It Started with the Wild Horses\, is now available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems are also included in the anthology\, More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: the Modesto Poets. In writing\, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” Ingrid lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and teaches writing to community college students.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190413T054023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190413T054023Z
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poets' Corner Reading
DESCRIPTION:The annual Poets’ Corner contest is open to all Stanislaus County residents. Poets will read their winning poems on Sunday\, May 5\, 2019\, at 1 p.m. at the McHenry Museum\, followed by light refreshments. \nWinning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf\, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190206T223023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190401T190255Z
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SUMMARY:Sixth Annual Benefit Gala
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for our Sixth Annual Benefit on April 14th\, 2019! Our annual MoSt Poetry Center Benefit provides our supporters with the chance to enjoy food\, drinks\, and music while mingling with poetry-minded friends. \nCome have a lovely afternoon of poetry\, food and drink\, music\, poetry games\, a silent auction\, and the release of our 2019 George Rogers-Lee Nicholson Chapbook featuring the work of young poets. \nTickets are $20 each and available online at https://mostpoetry.eventbrite.com. \nYou’ll also be able to buy tickets at the door\, but if you purchase them beforehand we’ll know you’re coming and can better plan for the event. \nTo read about some of our past events\, click here.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/sixth-annual-benefit-gala/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190206T222704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T222704Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on April 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring poets from the Sixteen Rivers poetry collective. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-4-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190321T181552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T181552Z
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SUMMARY:Ladies of the Knight Reading
DESCRIPTION:MoSt is proud to co-sponsor the Ladies of the Knight poetry reading with Sacramento poets at the Carnegie Arts Center! Stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/ladies-of-the-knight-reading/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190321T181207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T181207Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading at MJC
DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is proud to announce that we will be co-sponsoring a poetry reading at Modesto Junior College with MJC’s Counseling department and the UnDocuAlly DREAM Network. Stay tuned for more information!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-reading-at-mjc/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190206T222516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T222516Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on March 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured readers are Lee Herrick and Maw Shein Win. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-3-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190114T020210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T205515Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190114T015945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190114T015945Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring the poetry of beloved local poets Virginia Dall\, George Rogers\, and Lee Nicholson\, read by members of the MoSt poetry community. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20190114T015550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190114T015550Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Out Loud County Competition
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest for students\, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation\, and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is proud to announce that we will be holding our county-level competition at the MJC Little Theatre on February 6th. Last year\, our county winner took third place at the state level\, so don’t miss the chance to witness this year’s contest!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-out-loud-county-competition/
LOCATION:Little Theatre\, MJC\, 435 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Readings,Youth Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190202T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20181115T182159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190117T203907Z
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce the details of our 7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival\, coming up on February 2nd\, 2019! \nEach year in February we organize and hold an all-day poetry festival featuring workshops\, readings\, and a featured poet. This year\, we are proud to welcome back featured poet Indigo Moor\, Sacramento’s Poet Laureate\, as our guest poet and workshop leader. CLICK HERE to read more about the workshop theme. \nJoin us on Saturday\, February 2nd\, 2019 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Modesto for a day of poetry\, learning\, and inspiration! Click on the image at right to download the PDF flyer\, and you can click here to download the registration form (which also has details about this year’s festival poetry contest). \nThemes for this year’s contest are 1. Here in this House; 2. What Remains; 3. The Edge of the Sea; 4. In and Out of Fashion (Life a la Mode). Submissions to the poetry contest must be postmarked by the CONTEST DEADLINE: JANUARY 11\, 2019. Please see the form for more information.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/7th-annual-modesto-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:St. Paul’s Episcopal Church\, 1528 Oakdale Road\, Modesto\, CA\, 95355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Readings,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20181231T032222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T032222Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 8th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry with featured readers from America\, We Call Your Name. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20180926T200830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180926T200830Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 11 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers the Licensed Fools. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-12-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T092041
CREATED:20180926T200555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180926T200555Z
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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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