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SUMMARY:Woven Words Tiny Poem Contest — Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Woven Words Tiny Poem Contest — Reading & Reception\nYou’re invited to a poetry reading to celebrate the publication of Woven Words\, an anthology of short poems featuring the work of Stanislaus County youth poets.  \nHosted by Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Valentina Zeff \n📅 Wednesday\, May 20\, 2026 | 5:30 PM 📍 Queen Bean Coffeehouse 1126 14th St.\, Modesto\, CA 95350 \n\nAbout the Program \nThe Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program is administered by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt Poetry) with partners MJC Library & Learning Center & MJC School of Language Arts & Education\, Stanislaus County Office of Education\, Stanislaus County Library\, and Stanislaus Library Foundation.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/wovenwordreading26/
LOCATION:Queen Bean Coffee House\, 1126 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Readings,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry: Brad Buchanan and Paloma Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Second Tuesday Poetry\nAn Evening of Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan & Paloma Contreras\nDate: Tuesday\, June 9\, 2026 Time: 7:00 pm | Doors open 6:30 pm Location: Bookish Modesto Admission: Free and open to the public Refreshments available for purchase. \nBRAD BUCHANAN\nBrad Buchanan is a retired English professor and poet laureate–endorsed writer who earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and chaired the English Department at Sacramento State University. His poetry\, fiction\, and scholarly articles have appeared in more than 200 journals\, and his first two poetry collections received Writer’s Digest awards. A two-time blood cancer survivor and stem cell transplant recipient\, he is the author of eight books\, including a medical memoir and four collections of poetry. His latest poetry collection\, Birds of Poverty Ridge\, was published by Finishing Line Press earlier this year. His website is bradthechimera.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPALOMA CONTRERAS\n \nPaloma Contreras is a young poet who loves reading and teaching adults. She is currently studying for a graduate degree in Translation to translate written art for a living. Paloma is a member of the Stanislaus Grito de Mujer® team. Grito de Mujer is an international\, United Nations-supported month-long program of readings\, art events\, and workshops to raise awareness of gender-equity issues. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026june2ndtues/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Merced  poets Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco. \nDate: Tuesday\, July 14\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PM\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener. Event is free; refreshments and books available for purchase at Bookish! \n\nMAI-LINH HONG  \nMai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American refugee poet and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection\, Continental Drift\, won the 2025 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in July 2026. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Waxwing\, Ploughshares\, Copper Nickel\, Wildness\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Maine Review\, and elsewhere. She publishes essays on Asian American and refugee literature in scholarly journals and anthologies. A lifelong crafter\, she is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making\, Radical Care\, and Racial Justice (University of California Press\, 2021). She teaches literature at the University of California\, Merced. \n  \nELIZABETH MCMUNN-TETANGCO \nElizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and co-edits One Sentence Poems and First Frost. She also works as a librarian at UC Merced. Her work has appeared in many online and print journals\, and her most recent book\, Salt Shaker Girls\, is available through Cuttlefish Books. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026july14/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry's Saturday at the Carnegie with featured readers Carolyn Miller & Lenore Myers
DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry at the Carnegie readings on August 15 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway Avenue in Turlock\, CA.  Our featured poets are Sixteen Rivers Press poets Carolyn Miller and Lenore Myers (both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nCarolyn Miller lives in San Francisco\, where she writes\, paints\, and works as a freelance book editor. Her books of poetry are After Cocteau and Light\, Moving\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press; Route 66 and Its Sorrows from Terrapin Books; and four limited-edition letterpress chapbooks from Protean Press. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac and have appeared in Smartish Pace\, SALT\, ONE ART\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review\, among other journals\, as well as in several anthologies\, including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems: American Places. Her honors include the James Boatwright III Award for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. \n                                                                                                                                                          About Random Universe: “Carolyn Miller’s new poetry collection is a remarkably inclusive work\, with a playfulness in form and structure that feels wonderfully inventive. In these pages\, she takes on ekphrastic responses to Cy Twombly’s art\, “mistranslations” of Milosz and Tranströmer\, and her own translation of an ancient Egyptian text. She creates list-poems of “Lost Language” and “New Lines for Fortune Cookies” and writes about the lives of objects. And through it all\, she shows her remarkable talent for writing about sensuous joy\, joy that is earned\, though haunted by history and the poet’s place in it. I am glad to sit at the banquet table of her Random Universe and feast.” —Julia B. Levine\, author of Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction \nLENORE MYERS was born to artist parents who tried to live as semi-bohemians in the suburbs. When that fell apart\, the author spent her childhood and youth moving between different towns in Northern California. After spending more years moving around the United States and abroad\, she returned to the greater Bay Area to be near family while raising her son. Her chapbook\, Regards to Balthus\, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2023. Her poems and essays appear in a variety of literary journals. \n \nAbout Afterimages: “Conventional forms of ekphrasis are often little more than poetic descriptions of art. But there is nothing conventional about Lenore Myers’s Afterimages. The poems in this fabulous collection go beyond description\, beyond the page\, beyond the canvas\, beyond looking and seeing\, beyond interpretation and reflection\, beyond decoding. They participate in what we might call an expanded ekphrasis that takes the dialogue between art and poetry to new levels of interactivity. This is a book that asks big questions about how we perceive and process the acts of making art and engaging with its aftereffects. Art lasts. It lingers. In our heads and in our hearts.” —Dean Rader\, author of Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetrys-saturday-at-the-carnegie-with-featured-readers-carolyn-miller-lenore-myers/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday featuring Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloom
DESCRIPTION:  \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bay Area poets Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloom\nDate: Tuesday\, September 8\, 2026 Time: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PMWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center.Event is free. Refreshments\, books\, and cool bookstore merch available for purchase!\n\nJUDY HALEBSKY\n \nJudy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently\, Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Miller Williams Prize. Born and raised in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she holds an M.F.A. in English & Creative Writing from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California\, Davis. Judy’s work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Millay Colony\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her book Sky=Empty won the New Issues Prize\, and her chapbook  Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-Under-Forty Award from Sixteen Rivers Press. Tree Line was shortlisted for five awards including the Believer Poetry Award and the California Book Award. Along with  poetry\, Halebsky also writes articles\, essays\, plays\, and performs live improvised stories. \nAt Dominican University of California\, she teaches Japanese literature\, poetry\, and live storytelling. She lives in Berkeley with her nature guide and young daughter. \nAbout Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged):\nA translator’s notebook\, an almanac\, an ecological history\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) moves between multiple intersections and sign systems connected in a long glossary poem that serves as the book’s guide to what is lost\, erased\, or disrupted in transition both from experience to written word and from one language\, location\, and time period to another. \nThe role of the literary translator is to bring text from one language into another\, working to at once shift and retain the context of the original—from one alphabet to another\, one point in time to another. These are poems in homage to translation; they rely on concepts that can bridge time and space\, and as a result are as likely to find meaning in donuts or Zumba as they are to find it in the ocean. Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) finds reasons for hope not in how the world should be\, but in how it has always been. \n“Halebsky likes the unleashed energy of poetry\, and in the poems gathered here\, she delivers.” —Billy Collins \n“Under the spell of Bashō’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely its own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, and make noise. Only a poet this generous\, this wise\, and this rich in language could have made this splendid thing. Read this book and you will wish you were her neighbor.”\n—Katy Peterson\, author of A Piece of Good News \nNICHOLE TURNBLOOM\n \nNichole Turnbloom is the author of Out of the Unexpected: Poems with Sappho. She has an MFA in poetry and completed a facilitation training through the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her poems have been published in Acumen\, California Quarterly\, The Branches\, Garlic Press Lit\, Luna Luna Magazine\, Bear Review\, IWWG’s Anthology Write Forward among other venues. Her work is informed by nearly twenty years of providing somatic therapy to those affected by complex trauma and delves into themes of spiritual fragmentation\, identity and longing. \nAbout OUT OF THE UNEXPECTED: POEMS WITH SAPPHO\nIn Out of the Unexpected\, Nichole Turnbloom reaches into the fragments of Sappho—poet\, musician\, teacher\, the Tenth Muse—and weaves a luminous dialogue between past and present\, voice and silence\, myth and memory. \nDrawing from lost lines and broken songs\, these poems are a testament to what remains\, what is remade\, and what longs to be spoken. Here\, the resonance of Sappho’s lyricism mingles with the raw pulse of modern grief\, rage\, tenderness\, and survival. Through correspondence\, reimagining\, and reflection\, Turnbloom invites readers to step into a timeless conversation—one stitched with longing\, beauty\, and unyielding truth. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026september8/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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