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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
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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:20260424T124005
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260424T124005
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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
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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
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CREATED: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:20260424T124005
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
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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:20260424T124005
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:20260424T124005
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
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CREATED: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:20260424T124005
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Roy Mash and Rebecca Foust. 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-11-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20181018T235144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T000535Z
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SUMMARY:Words Have No Borders: A Night of Poetry & Fire
DESCRIPTION:METAPHORICAL FIRE! \nYou’re invited to burn it all down to a pile of ashes (figuratively) so we can start all over again. \nPlease join us for a night of poetry & community & friendship with special guests Manny Moreno\, Lillian Vallee\, members of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle\, Theresa Rojas\, Evan Wright\, Bernadet Mokhatas\, and more. \nFrom the HAWC: Yia Lee\, Nou Her\, Jer Xiong\, Hauntie\, Pos Moua\, and Soul Vang. \nThis is an amazing lineup\, poetry fans. \nWith local nonprofits sharing resource & voter registration opportunities. Refreshments available for purchase from Cafe Esperanza\, the church’s newly opened coffeehouse. \nFor more info: writersresistmodesto@gmail.com
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/words-have-no-borders-a-night-of-poetry-fire/
LOCATION:College Avenue United Church of Christ\, 1341 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 9 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Sheila Landre and Barbara West. 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-10-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180911T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180802T214526Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 11 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Connie Post and Kevin Gunn. 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-9-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180826T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180802T214206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180802T214243Z
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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: \nLinda Marie Prather has five published chapbooks\, the latest being Painting Your Absence (Dry Creek Press.) Unforced Rhythms (Finishing Line Press) won 3rd Place award in the NLAPW 2014 Letters Competition. Her full-length book\, Summer Song\, was published in 2016. She edits for Song of The San Joaquin\, is a member of National League of American Pen Women\, in Arts and Letters. Her poetry appears in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky/ The Modesto Poets. Linda is published widely and has received prizes from Penumbra\, Poets’ Dinner Contest\, Ina Coolbrith Circle\, the Golden Pegasus Award\, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. \n\nI was born into the name of Janette Jameson in Santa Cruz\, California. At seven\, my family moved to Torreon\, Mexico\, where my father became a principal of an American School. As a second grader\, I was thrust into a new language and culture. I received a bilingual education\, learning my times tables in Spanish and my addition in English. I experienced the constant back-and-forth between two worlds\, and as a result was outsider to both. \nI have always loved words—their use and their layered meanings. They feel almost tangible—to be worked with and at times played with. I have also always read\, since picking up my first Nancy Drew mystery and spending most of the day on the couch until the end of the book. In being bilingual\, I am very aware of the nuances in words and how much can be lost in translation. Bridges are important metaphors as well as a space where no language exists. The challenge in poetry is bringing words to places that already stand alone. I try to capture brief moments of observed life which become a springboard for a later poem. \nI’m a retired social worker\, married with two young adult daughters. I’ve lived in Modesto for the past twenty-six years\, still looking for home perhaps by an oak tree. \n\nDana Koster is the author of Binary Stars (Carolina Wren Press 2017). She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her poems have appeared in EPOCH\, Indiana Review\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, MUZZLE\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Radar Poetry\, and many others. She lives in Modesto\, California with her husband and two sons\, where she works as a wedding photographer. \n\nIfe-Chudeni A. Oputa is a writer\, editor\, and the author of Rummage\, which won the 2015 Little A Poetry Contest and is a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is a Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and Lambda Literary fellow. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Crab Orchard Review\, Some Call it Ballin\, Gabby\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. She is a native of Fresno\, CA.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-8-2018/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180814T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180814T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180802T213345Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:The Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is as late in the month as it can get\, so be sure to mark your calendar for August 14 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill. \nThis month’s featured readers are DW Schmidt and Kathleen Winter\, and of course\, our featured readers will be followed by an open mic\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nD.W. Schmidt has written much more prose than poetry.  When he started writing poetry\, he felt the poems happened accidentally\, like they found him\, which was probably the influence of the great imagist poets he has taught in his college classes for so long.  Lately\, he has allowed his poems to be more topical\, personal\, phrase-driven\, and ultimately more intentional. \nKathleen Winter is the author of I will not kick my friends (2018)\, which won the Elixir Poetry Prize\, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past\, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House\, Agni\, New Statesman\, New Republic and Yale Review. She was granted fellowships by Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Dobie Paisano Ranch\, Dora Maar House\, James Merrill House and Cill Rialaig Retreat.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180710T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of writing inspired by the poetry of Thomas Merton\, hosted by Ed Bearden. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nAbout the Thomas Merton Poetry Group: In February of 2016 Deacon George Cano of St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church\, convened the Thomas Merton poetry group. It was began to provide more than chit-chat\, but rather to encourage spiritual growth. Poetry\, as another way to pray. Meeting twice a month\, the group wrote and published Poetic Prayer: writing from the soul. Meditation\ntechniques from Buddhist traditions or centering prayer were used to access the poetic well. The group consists of Deacon George Cano\, Ed Bearden\, Roberta Bearden\, Jeanette Comegys\, Stephanie Gilmer\, Sarah B. Hartmann\, Judy Miller\, Linda Marie Prather and Cheryl Russel Pogue. Others would be welcome to join the writing and fellowship.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-july2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180612T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:The 9th Anniversary edition of the Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is happening on June 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! \nOur featured readers are the Modesto branch of the National League of America Pen Women. Founded in 1936\, the original five charter members of this branch were Alice Scott Carlson\, Grace M. Davis\, Irene Childrey Hoch\, Blanche Willis Allen\, and Helen Hope Page. \nThe tradition continues with a host of talented writers and artists\, including those reading at the Barkin’ Dog on June 12th: Nancy Haskett\, Lynn Hansen\, ann w. bailey\, Louise Kantro\, Roberta Bearden\, Jill Adler\, Cleo Griffith\, Pat Egenberger\, and Linda Prather.\n\nJoin us for a great evening of poetry and community!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-6/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T170000
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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-2/
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:20180508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180508T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180302T223530Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the May Barkin’ Dog reading on May 8 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers\, Beth Spencer and Lynne Knight\, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-5-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180302T223257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T223415Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the April Barkin’ Dog reading on April 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have three great featured readers\, Connie Post\, Kevin Gunn\, and Cleo Griffith\, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-4-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T124005
CREATED:20180302T222242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T222242Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the March Barkin’ Dog reading on March 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers\, Jennifer Fellguth and Salvatore Salerno\, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-3-2018/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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