Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-02-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Due to Valentine’s Day, our February edition of Second Tuesday will be held on Tuesday, February 21st!

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
2017-02-26 14:00 - 17:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on December 4th at 2 pm–feel free to print and distribute the flyer, available as a PDF right here.
Featured readers:
Noel Crane began writing poetry six years ago and hasn’t stopped. Her poetry explores her childhood struggles with listlessness and excessive daydreaming. Noel has a Bachelor’s degree in English. When she’s not writing, she enjoys yoga, hiking, and plants. Noel is currently working on another degree in Horticulture.
Tom Myers is a retired elementary teacher who was raised and still lives in the Great Central Valley with his wife and assorted pets. Wild places sustain him and frame much of his poetry. He is a founding board member of MoSt. Desert Treasure is his third chapbook.
Lillian Vallee is a writer, translator, retired college instructor and amateur naturalist who lives at the center of the world, in Modesto, in California’s Great Central Valley, a region of immense riches and only partially realized potential. Vallee’s work expresses her region’s telluric mysteries, its profound failings and everyday striving for healing and wholeness.
Gillian Wegener has had poetry published in Spillway, Packinghouse Review, Sow’s Ear, and Wherewithal. Her chapbook Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other was published by In the Grove Press in 2001, and her first full-length collection of poetry, The Opposite of Clairvoyance was published in 2008 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her second collection, This Sweet Haphazard, will be published in early 2017. In the meantime, she hosts the monthly 2nd Tuesday Reading Series, is founding president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, and served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto from 2012-2016.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-04-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in Modesto! This month’s reading features our own Gillian Wegener reading from her new book This Sweet Haphazard, as well as her fellow Sixteen Rivers poet Erin Rodoni, author of Body, In Good Light.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-05-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in Modesto! This month’s reading features MoSt board member Linda Scheller celebrating her debut poetry collection, Fierce Light, out now from Future Cycle Press. Our second reader is TBA.

Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony
2017-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, 250 N. Broadway, Turlock, CA, 95380, United States
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.

California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia
2017-07-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Carnegie Arts Center, 250 N. Broadway, Turlock, CA, 95380, United States
MoSt is excited to announce that California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia, will be at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for a reading and conversation. This event is free and open to all, so please join us for a wonderful evening of poetry. See below for more information:

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-08-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for a great reading this Tuesday, August 8 at the Barkin’ Dog in downtown Modesto at 6:00. This month’s poets are Modesto’s own Gordon Preston and William O’Daly.
William O’Daly has translated eight books of poetry by Pablo Neruda, all published with Copper Canyon Press. He’ll publish his ninth book of Neruda’s poetry, Book of Twilight, with Copper Canyon in October, 2017. His collection of poems, Water Ways, was published in 2017, and his homage to Neruda, The Road to Isla Negra, in 2015, both by Folded Word Press.
Gordon Preston has appeared in Cutbank, Five Points, Miramar, Missouri Review, and Rattle. He is a founding member of MoSt, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. His newest publication is What Morning Brings, a mini-chapbook from Tiger’s Eye Press Infinities.

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
2017-08-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on August 27 at 2 pm–feel free to print and distribute the flyer, available as a PDF right here.
Featured readers:
Sy Margaret Baldwin was born and raised in the West Midlands of England. Presently she lives in the Sierra of California where she worked from 1992 to 2008 as a Wildlife Technician for the Stanislaus National Forest. Her poems has been published widely in literary magazines. Her poetry collection, Signal Fires, was published in 2014 by Word Project Press.
Salvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from University of North Carolina, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He worked as a poet and playwright in the Visiting Artist Program in North Carolina. More than 110 of his poems have appeared in such magazines as Descant, Poem, and Quercus Review. His poetry books are Sunleaf, Inkboat and the recently released New Wine in Old Barrels. Salvatore is a founding member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.
Linda Scheller‘s writing has appeared in nearly 50 journals and anthologies including Notre Dame Review, Lone Star Legacy, Slipstream, Howling Dog, Hawaii Pacific Review, and The Distillery. FutureCycle Press recently published Ms. Scheller’s first book, Fierce Light, a collection of persona poems based on years of research into the lives and accomplishments of 36 women from world history and culture. For more information, visit her website at www.lindascheller.com.
Gillian Wegener is the author of a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001), a full-length collection, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and was a coeditor of More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011). Her most recent collection, This Sweet Haphazard, was published this year by Sixteen Rivers Press. She is founding president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto, and has run the Second Tuesday Reading Series for the past eight years. She lives in Modesto with her husband, daughter, and a button-eating dog.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
September’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on September 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Erica Goss and Ed Coletti.
Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court (2014, Pushpen Press) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2012, Finishing Line Press) Her latest poetry collection, Wild Place, won the 2016 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. Widely published, Erica was the host of Word to Word, a Show About Poetry, on KCAT Cable TV in Los Gatos, and wrote The Third Form, a column about video poetry, for Connotation Press. She is the co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls. Erica lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches classes in poetry and video.
Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline. Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015). Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.” He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
October’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on Tuesday, October 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Jim Beggs.
Andrena Zawinski was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA but has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home since 2000. Her latest collection of poetry is Landings. She has two previous collections: Something About (a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award) and Traveling in Reflected Light (a Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize). Her poetry has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. She is also Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.
Jim Beggs has only written perhaps seven poems, but he has written about a poet–his book on Henry Reed (“Naming of Parts”)–and he has set a dozen familiar poems to music or matched them to songs we all know and love.

Great Valley Bookfest
2017-10-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Bass Pro Center, 280 Lifestyle Road, Manteca, CA, 95337, United States
Come join us at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca this weekend! We’ll have a wide range of fabulous readers on the dedicated poetry stage, including Sacramento Poet Laureate Indigo Moor. You can also visit our table in the Authors’ Alley for more information about what we do, and to learn more about becoming a member or volunteer.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
November’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on November 14 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Marisol Baca. Don’t forget to stay for our open mic after the reading!

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
2017-12-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on December 10th at 2 pm in the Gemperle Gallery–click here or on the image at right to view the PDF flyer.
Featured readers for the December reading:
Angela Morales Salinas was born in Cerritos, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and emigrated to the United States as a child. She has lived in the San Joaquin Valley for most of her life, and taught Kindergarten for twenty-seven of her forty-year career as an educator. She has been published locally, and was proud to be included in More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011). Angela was there when the Licensed Fools came into existence, and is happily continuing her foolish ways.
Born in Los Angeles, Mark Nicoll-Johnson has lived in Modesto since 1980. In 2014, he retired after nearly 40 years of teaching, the last 24 of which as a member of the Department of English at Merced College, where at one time or another he counted among his colleagues Angela Morales and Meg Withers.
Linda Toren is a retired elementary school teacher who lives in the foothills of Calaveras County along with her husband, a horse, chickens, two goats, a box turtle, and cats and dogs. She teaches poetry in two local schools, is an active Friend of the Library and belongs to two writer’s groups—Licensed Fools (Modesto/Turlock) and Pine Grove Writer’s Group (PGWG—“Pig Wigs”.) Her most current poems appear in Out of the Fire by Manzanita Press.
Meg 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). Shadowed: Unheard Voices (Press at Fresno State 2014). The latter was edited with Joell Hallowell. The basis for Meg’s work is concern with the attempt to silence voices.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
December’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on December 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are the Meter Maids. Don’t forget to stay for our open mic after the reading!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-01-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for the January Barkin’ Dog reading on Jan. 9 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.
Chiyuma Elliott is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, visual culture, and intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Elliott’s first book of poems, California Winter League, was published by Unicorn Press in December of 2015. Her creative work has appeared in the African American Review, Callaloo, the Collagist, the Notre Dame Review, the PN Review, and other journals. She is the co-editor of several poetry chapbooks: African American Poetic Responses to Faulkner (2015 / U Press of Mississippi), Of Rivers ( 2016 / Southern Humanities Review), and an untitled ​group of poems inspired by the Gordon W. Bailey Collection (forthcoming). She is currently at work on a poem cycle called Vigil, and a scholarly monograph about poetics in the New Negro movement.
Stella Beratlis grew up in a Greek-American family in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Quercus Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin,In Posse Review, California Quarterly, and other journals, as well as in the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets(Quercus Review Press, 2011). Beratlis is a librarian in Modesto, where she lives with her daughter. Alkali Sink is her first collection of poems.

6th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival
2018-02-03 09:30 - 16:00 | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1528 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA, 95355, United States
We are thrilled to announce the details of our 6th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, coming up on February 3rd!
Each 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 featured poet William O’Daly as our guest poet and workshop leader.
Join us on Saturday, February 4th, 2017 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).
Themes for this year’s contest are 1. Arrivals and Departures; 2. The Disappearance of Things; 3. Empty Spaces; 4. Inheritances. Submissions to the poetry contest must be postmarked by the CONTEST DEADLINE: JANUARY 11, 2018. Please see the form for more information.

Poetry Out Loud County Finals
2018-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
MoSt is coordinating the county competiton of the Poetry Out Loud contest, a national recitation contest for high school students. The county competition will be held at MJC on Feb. 7 at 6:00. If you are interested in participating as a judge or just coming to see these talented students perform amazing poetry, please email us at info@mostpoetry.org.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for the February Barkin’ Dog reading on Feb. 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers, including Tina Curiel Allen, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
2018-02-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on February 25th at 2 pm in the Gemperle Gallery–click here or on the image at right to view the PDF flyer.
Featured readers for the February reading:
Ann Williams Bailey has been a part of the Central Valley writing community since the early 1970’s, collaborating with other writers, artists, and various creative organizations. She has been an enthusiastic participant in writers’ groups, small presses, ekphrastic shows, writing retreats, and, for ten years, spoken word performances in collaboration with Stockton’s New Dance Company, both locally and in the Bay Area, including the San Francisco Legion of Honor. Given the option, she prefers to paint portraits and write landscapes.
A native Californian, Brian Wright is a retired high school English teacher who divides his time between the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada. His poems appear in More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets and several local publications including 4 More. He is active in The Healing Power of Writing, a Bay Area Writer’s group comprised of cancer survivors and caregivers.
Marisol Baca is the author of Tremor from Three Mile Harbor Press. She has been published in Narrative Northeast, Riverlit, Shadowed: An Anthology of Women Writers, and others. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University, where she won the Robert Chasen Poetry award. Currently, Marisol is an English professor at Fresno City College.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.

Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony
2018-05-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The 9th Anniversary edition of the Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is happening on June 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog!
Our 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.
The 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.

Join us for a great evening of poetry and community!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-07-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.
About 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
techniques 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.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-08-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.
This 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.
D.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.
Kathleen 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.

Poetry on Sunday Series
2018-08-26 14:00 - 17:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
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:
Linda 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.

I 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.
I 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.
I’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.

Dana 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.

Ife-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.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-09-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
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.

Words Have No Borders: A Night of Poetry & Fire
2018-10-20 19:00 - 21:00 | College Avenue United Church of Christ, 1341 College Ave, Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
METAPHORICAL FIRE!
You’re invited to burn it all down to a pile of ashes (figuratively) so we can start all over again.
Please 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.
From the HAWC: Yia Lee, Nou Her, Jer Xiong, Hauntie, Pos Moua, and Soul Vang.
This is an amazing lineup, poetry fans.
With local nonprofits sharing resource & voter registration opportunities. Refreshments available for purchase from Cafe Esperanza, the church’s newly opened coffeehouse.
For more info: writersresistmodesto@gmail.com
