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SUMMARY:Youth Poet Laureate's Painless Poetry: Open Mic Performance
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Apr. 20\, 2 pm\n\nJoin Faith Delgado\, 2023-24 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate\, in this final installment of Painless Poetry. Come show off what you’ve been working on these past months! Connect with Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado if you’d like more information: faithd@mostpoetry.org\n\nLight refreshments will be served while they last.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/youth-poet-laureates-painless-poetry-open-mic-performance/
LOCATION:Turlock Library\, 550 N. Minaret Ave\, Turlock\, 95382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry Slam,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry On Saturday featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt & Mary Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, for a MoSt Poetry reading featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Mary Mackey on Saturday\, February 24\, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. PST.  An open mic will follow the featured poets\, and light refreshments will be available. This reading\, hosted by Gary Thomas\, is free and open to the public. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gatherer’s Alphabet (Gunpowder Press\, CA Poets Prize\, 2022)\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and a number of previous small press collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash. A new book\, Frangible Operas: Selected Uncollected is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com. \n  \nMary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, being swarmed by army ants\, and reading. She is the author of eight poetry collections\, including Sugar Zone\, winner of a PEN Award\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams\, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry\, Jane Hirshfield\, D. Nurkse\, Al Young\, Rafael Jesús González\, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty\, precision\, originality\, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion.  Recent honors and awards include: \n2023 City of Angels Women’s Film Festival Award Official Selection for Best Feature Screenplay for “The Stand In.” The screenplay is an adaptation of Mary Mackey’s novel of the same title\, published under her pen name “Kate Clemens.” \nNorthern California Book Reviews Award Finalist for “Creativity: Where Poems Begin\, Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in 2023. \nWinner of City of Angels Film Festival for Best Short Screenplay for “Time Piece “ 2022. \n“Lady Danger\,” Nominated for Best Feature-Length Screenplay\, City of Angels Womens Film Festival\, 2022. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-susan-kelly-dewitt-mary-mackey/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Angela Drew & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Tuesday\, February 13th\, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. PST for a poetry reading featuring Angela Drew and Linda Scheller at Prospect Theater Project’s Artist Lab\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto CA. Hosted by Gillian Wegener\, this free event will include an open mic. \nAngela Mason-Drew is a mother\, dancer\, poet\, spoken word performer and self-proclaimed linguistic artist who has loved the rhythm and sounds of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, CA\, she began writing at age 8 and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. Her lifelong love affair with storytelling began in the sandbox of her childhood playground and she has played with the magic of words ever since. Angela is a graduate of Holy Names University in Oakland\, CA\, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is a proud Bay Area native and shares stories from her current home in the Central Valley. To learn more about Angela and her word artistry\, visit her on Instagram @she_spits_fire Facebook @Angela Drew (Angela Mason) and online at www.elderberrywine.org. \n \nLinda Scheller is the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag Publishing Company). Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are published in numerous journals and anthologies including Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Poem\, Sugar House Review\, Slipstream\, and Colorado Review. Recent honors include Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations\, and her manuscript Laurels was a finalist for the 2023 Aryamati Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award. Ms. Scheller is a retired educator who volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio. For more information\, please go to her website\, lindascheller.com. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-second-tuesday-poetry-reading-featuring-angela-drew-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Luke Johnson and Mariah Bosch
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Luke Johnson\, author of Quiver\, and Mariah Bosch\, Fresno State MFA graduate. Hosted by Stella Beratlis \nDate: Tuesday\, January 9\, 2024\nTime: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom–RSVP required. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqce6uqTwqHtFdKlW9fo8M7VcNJLdy8ref. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet): https://forms.gle/RnPGLFptHija15RU8 \n  \nLUKE JOHNSON \nLuke Johnson is the author of Quiver (Texas Review Press)\, a finalist for The Jake Adam York Prize\, The Levis Award\, The Vassar Miller Prize and the Brittingham. His second book A Slow Indwelling\, a call and response with the poet Megan Merchant\, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions Fall 2024. You can find more of his work at Kenyon Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Narrative Magazine\, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter at @Lukesrant or through email: writerswharfmb@gmail.com \n  \n\nAbout Quiver\n“Quiver is the most visceral\, haunting book of poems I have read in years. Johnson reimagines masculinity and is unafraid to unearth its dark elements\, as father\, son\, and witness to the brutality and beauty in and around us. He writes\, ‘Listen: When/I said boys have a storm inside\,/this itch that fills our teeth\, I/was sharing in secret. I meant/we have mothers who gift us ghosts\,/our heads upon a trigger.’ This searing debut is a world of its own\, built with fearlessness\, tenderness\, and grace. Take notice. Luke Johnson has arrived.” —Lee Herrick\, California Poet Laureate \n“In Quiver\, Luke Johnson’s unforgettable debut poetry collection\, he invokes The Old Testament\, its fires\, floods\, and prophecies—to reckon with ‘all the ways a child drowns\, like spiders trapped in spit.’ These are harrowing poems. Yet\, at the heart of Johnson’s unsparing gaze lies enormous compassion—for the ghosts that haunt him\, for the child self who carried ‘scars without witness.’ Quiver is a work of glorious complexity—brutal\, lyrical\, shot through with images that stop you in your tracks. But more than that\, these poems look deeply at the ways the sins of the father are visited on successive generations and move toward breaking the cycle.”  —Ellen Bass — Ellen Bass \n  \nMARIAH BOSCH\n \nMariah Bosch (she/they) is a queer Chicana poet and visual artist from Fresno\, CA. She is a graduate of Fresno State’s MFA program in poetry. Her work can be found on Poets.org\, Small Press Traffic\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, and elsewhere. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-luke-johnson-and-mariah-bosch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Youth Poet Laureate: Speak Your Silence poetry open mic
DESCRIPTION:Speak Your Silence is a reading on December 16\, 2023 at the Turlock Library in remembrance of Sandy Hook (Dec. 14 is the Sandy Hook Day of Remembrance). \n\nSpeak Your Silence\, a student-led campaign organized by Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith  Delgado\, is intended to address and combat all types of violence that occurs in the schools. Youth poets are invited to share their stories and/or experiences in the form of poetry\, slam poetry\, speeches\, spoken word\, etc. This can be about sexual or physical violence\, any kind of bullying\, and/or your experience of how the school handled it. work on the topic of school violence. For middle- and high-schoolers; original work please. \n\n\nFeel free to contact Faith at faithd@mostpoetry.org for any questions about the event!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/youth-poet-laureates-speak-your-silence-reading-dec-16-deadline-to-apply-dec/
LOCATION:Turlock Library\, 550 N. Minaret Ave\, Turlock\, 95382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Slam,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:MoSt Member Open Mic on December 14
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry members are cordially invited to read at this special open mic poetry reading on Thursday\, December 14th at The Dragonfly Art for Life\, 1210 J Street in downtown Modesto\, CA. Free and open to the public\, the event starts at 6:00 p.m. If you haven’t yet become a MoSt member and would like to help support poetry in Stanislaus County\, please go to mostpoetry.org.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-member-open-mic-on-december-14/
LOCATION:The Dragonfly Art for Life\, 1210 J Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday featuring Melchor Sahagun & Tina Marie Curiel-Vega
DESCRIPTION:We’re super excited to invite everyone to November’s Second Tuesday reading at the Intermission in downtown Modesto. Not only do we get to experience poetry in an amazing new space in our community\, but also we celebrate Sorry I’m Late\, the first collection from Stockton poet Melchor Sahagun\, erstwhile and beloved Queen Bean Poetry Night host. Joining him as featured poet is author and activist Tina Marie Curiel-Vega\, cofounder of the existir collective whose most recent zine Trying to Fix Destiny just came out. Stay for the open mic following the featured readers.\n\nMELCHOR SAHAGUN – Melchor Sahagun is a human being from the human city of Stockton\, CA\, who has spent most of the last three decades writing\, singing\, joking\, rapping\, acting\, and otherwise participating in various human endeavors. \n\nHe’s spent his human years as a poet\, musician\, author\, comedian\, playwright \, performer\, and skateboarder; mentoring other humans in the written and performing arts\, coaching slam teams\, hosting events\, and advocating for the arts in the greater human community– a group he connects with through several forms of human interaction.\n\nThough he’s been writing poems for nearly thirty years\, Sorry I’m Late is his first collection. He apologizes for the wait.\n\nTINA MARIE CURIEL-VEGA – Tina Curiel is a Xicana and Boricua almost-native Central Valley poet and artivist currently living in Modesto\, California with her three cats and as many books and records as possible. Her poetry explores her family history\, dealings with incarceration and the criminal legal system\, activism\, addiction\, and hope.\n\nBoth authors will have copies of their pubs for sale. Hoping you can join us to bless these new books of poetry and share ALL the poetry love.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-featuring-melchor-sahagun-tina-marie-curiel-vega/
LOCATION:Intermission at the State Theater Modesto CA\, 1307 J Street\, Modesto\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt's 10th Anniversary Fundraiser w/ CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick & Stan Cty Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the afternoon of Saturday\, September 23\, 2023 for an afternoon of wine\, hors d’oeuvres\, and readings by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado. \nYour ticket supports poetry in Stanislaus County\, including monthly reading series in Modesto and Turlock; sets of poetry books for area schools; Poetry Out Loud; poetry readings at senior communities; free poetry workshops and poetry book discussions at the Modesto Library; the Youth Poet Laureate program; poetry on the spot at events across the county; annual workshops by noted poets from across California\, the Modesto Poetry Festival every February\, and much more! \nTICKET SALES END FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 15th AT MIDNIGHT.  $50 purchase through https://poetrygala2023.brownpapertickets.com/.  \nPlease email info@mostpoetry.org to request sliding scale price. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/10th-anniversary-fundraiser-with-california-poet-laureate-lee-herrick-stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-faith-delgago/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry  featuring Chloe Martinez and Emma Trelles
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, September 12\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link\nOpen mic signup; 3 mins per reader please. \nPlease join us this month as we feature poets Emma Trelles and Chloe Martinez on Zoom. Emma Trelles\, author of Tropicalia\, is the immediate past poet laureate for Santa Barbara\, a CantoMundo fellow and Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Chloe Martinez\, author of Ten Thousand Selves\, is a scholar and poet who also serves as associate director of programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College. Her poems and translations have been widely published and have received numerous awards and honors.  \nChloe Martinez\nChloe Martinez is a scholar of South Asian religions and a poet. She lives in Claremont\, CA with her husband and two daughters. She is the Associate Director of Programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College\, as well as Lecturer in CMC’s Department of Religious Studies.  \nShe is a graduate of Barnard College\, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow\, and received the MA/PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests include creative writing; religions of South Asia; medieval North Indian devotional movements; poetry and autobiography in South Asia; and South Asian American religious worlds. Her research has appeared in journals including The Medieval History Journal and South Asia​\, and has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\, AIIS\, and SSRC-Mellon Mays.  \nShe is also a graduate of Boston University’s Creative Writing MA and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, where she was a Holden Scholar. The author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works\, 2021) and chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press\, 2020)\, her poems and translations have appeared in Ploughshares\, POETRY\, The Common\, AGNI\, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere\, and have been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize\, as well as for Best New Poets and Best of the Net. Her translations have won the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and the Anne Frydman Prize. She is a visiting editor at Beloit Poetry Journal and the poetry editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. \nSee more at www.chloeAVmartinez.com \nAbout The Ten Thousand Selves \n \n“Martinez understands the power of story to transmute experience into knowledge\, and the power of poetry to question story’s power. Her scope is global\, her vision historical\, and her voice—by turns tender\, sardonic\, full of rage or humbled awe—is eloquently contemporary. Here is a book that presses back against reality. ‘Not a story\, not an image. It is a map.'” —Suzanne Buffam\, author of A Pillow Book  \n“…the selves in these beautifully wrought poems are wide-eyed in their wisdoms and whole-hearted in their songs. In poem after poem\, they show the myriad possibilities in our extraordinary and surprising lives.”  –Adrian Matejka\, author of Somebody Else Sold the World 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-chloe-martinez-and-emma-trelles/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Reading and Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate our finalists for the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate contest 2023-2024. Meet our finalists\, Janelle Yulo of Modesto and Zoe Byron of Oakdale\, and our Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado. With readings and refreshments. \nAt The Loft\, 3rd floor of the Carnegie Arts Center\, \nStanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program is a partnership between Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, Stanislaus County Library\, Stanislaus County Office of Education\, MJC’s School of Language Arts and Education\, and the Stanislaus Library Foundation.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-reading-and-reception/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Saturday Reading featuring Connie Post and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday Reading\nAugust 12\, 2023  2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California)\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On \nSaturday readings in person on August 12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie \nArts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Livermore poet laureate\nemeritus Connie Post and Marin County poet laureate Francesca Bell \n(both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time after the \nfeatured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light\nrefreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConnie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California. Her \nwork has appeared in Calyx\, Comstock Review\, One\, Cold Mountain \nReview\, Slipstream\, Spillway\, River Styx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, \nValparaiso Poetry Review\, and Verse Daily. She has two full-length \nbooks from Glass Lyre Press\, entitled Floodwater and Prime Meridian.\nHer most recent book\, Between Twilight\, is from New York Quarterly \nbooks\, and she has a recent chapbook\, Broken Metronome\, about her\nbrother’s journey with Parkinson’s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain\, a finalist for the Washington \nState Book Award and the Julie Suk Award\, and What Small Sound\,\, and is\n\n\n\nthe translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here\, all from Red Hen\nPress. Her work appears in B O D Y\, ELLE\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, \nNew England Review\, North American Review\, Mid-American Review\, and \nRattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx\, the translation editor \nof Los Angeles Review\, and the poet laureate of Marin County. She lives \nwith her family in Novato\, California.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading-featuring-connie-post-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Molly Fisk & Ingrid Keriotis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a  poetry reading featuring Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis with an open mic to follow. \nRSVP with the link below. \n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Aug 8\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-yorzMjG9Nu0FHzh0Uy7TVpsE81x9PiAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-with-molly-fisk-ingrid-keriotis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García\, hosted by Stella Beratlis \nDate: Tuesday\, July 11\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom–RSVP required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYld-CrrzIiE9f-nC5FZF4UnTu3ZCbULvXC. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic: 3 mins per poet\, follows the featured readers. Open mic sign-up.  \nAideed Medina\nAideed Medina is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet\, award winning spoken word artist and a playwright. She is a California Naturalist\, and practices “flor y canto” as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history. Her work has appeared in Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine\, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal\, La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Art of the Commune\, Split This Rock\, Nueva York Poetry Review\, Di-Liio Revista Literaria\, Artivista Anthology\, as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix\, Fresno Grand Opera\, and co-writer of Eclectic Collective plays: Encounter Intuitive and Artista Invisible. Her debut collection\, 31 Hummingbird\, was just published earlier this year by Xingao Press. Aideed has a forthcoming full-length poetry collection\, Segmented Bodies\, from Prickly Pear Press coming later this year. In 2024\, the Editorial Universitaria of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico will be publishing her work poetry in a series that pairs Chicano-Mexican poets. \nAbout 31 Hummingbird\n31 Hummingbird | A suite of poems is the debut collection by Chicana poet Aideed Medina. 31 Hummingbird chronicles a human relationship\, and ascends with the flights of hummingbirds. The hummingbird is a unique being and a metaphor of the racing of hearts\, whose beating never fluctuates whether in mid-flight\, hovering\, being rejected\, ejected\, accepted or dive-bombing for the nectars and sugared waters of the embraces. \nAideed Medina’s hummingbird poems are cross-pollinators: She brushes our tongues and eyes with the poetics of aerodynamic words. \nHer debut collection of humming-poems is an invitation to risk flying on the wings of feathered lightning. Up\, down\, across\, forward\, backward\, fluttering like thunder and lightning\, 31 Hummingbird invites close and patient reading\, waiting for the hummingbird to appear and disappear in the flash of a few lines. \nRamón García\nRamón García is the author of two books of poetry The Chronicles (Red Hen Press\, 2015) and Other Countries (What Books Press\, 2010)\, and a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013).  The Chronicles was a finalist for the Latino International Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English in 2016. \nGarcía has published poetry\, fiction and scholarly work in a variety of journals\,  anthologies and museum catalogs.  His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry anthology\, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Los Angeles Review\, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas.  He has contributed to the art work and projects of various visual artists\, including Berta Jottar\, Harry Gamboa Jr.\, Susan Silton\, David John Attyah\, and Sandra de la Loza. \n Ramón García was born in Colima\, Mexico and grew up in Modesto\, California.  He has a B.A. in World Literature from University of California\, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego. He is a Professor at California State University\, Northridge and lives in downtown Los Angeles. \nAbout The Chronicles\n“Ramón García’s The Chronicles is wondrously deceptive. At first we may think we know the folkloric stuff dreams are made of\, but soon one is inside a unique world where\, through language and ritual\, an edgy authority speaks through metaphor\, chronicling the underbelly of the spoken and unspoken\, and at times even the unspeakable. The Chronicles unearths things we didn’t know we knew—surprising\, new\, clear-eyed twists and turns. This collection of urgent poems\, partly woven from stories inherited\, sings through the past to the present and future.”—Yusef Komunyakaa
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-aideed-medina-and-ramon-garcia/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center as we present poets Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell in a free on-line poetry reading hosted by Gillian Wegener.\n\nABOUT LYNN HANSEN\nLynn M. Hansen is a retired Modesto Junior College professor of marine biology. A member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle\, Orinda\, CA; MoSt Poetry Center\, Modesto; and National League of American Pen Women\, her work reflects her sense of place and the art of storytelling. In 2013 a collection of her poems was published by Quercus Review Press entitled Flicker: Poems. She is currently writing an historical novel about her maternal grandmother\, Mernie Daisy Lewis\, 1882-1963.\n\nABOUT RICHARD ROBBINS\nRichard Robbins was raised in California and Montana\, taught in Minnesota for many years\, and recently moved back west to Oregon. Robbins has received awards or residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Poetry Society of America\, the Anderson Center\, Willapa Bay AiR\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. From 1986 to 2014\, he directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato\, which the Minnesota Humanities Commission called\, “the premier small-town reading series in the country.”\n“Part balm\, part prayer\, part revelation\, the quietly moving and incantatory poems in Richard Robbins’s The Oratory of All Souls reveal a poetic voice that is masterful\, adept\, and profoundly compelling. These supple poems unfold seamlessly\, with the muscular music of moving water: elegant\, clear\, fierce. Robbins has the gaze of a painter\, with a gorgeous insistence on image\, line\, shadow\, and light.” —Lee Ann Roripaugh\, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50\n\nABOUT THOMAS MITCHELL\nThomas Mitchell is a shrewd and trusted observer of the natural world. In this third book\, Where We Arrive\, Mitchell listens to “the counsel of water” and moves “from one silence to another.” And as such\, he spies “a red-tailed hawk drifting in absolute loneliness.” More often than not\, Mitchell is a poet of intimate feelings. He remarks time and again upon various stars and moons\, towhees and starlings. His poetry is a poetry bent on reimagining the world.\n—Thomas Aslin\, author of Salvage and A Moon Over Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Jun 13\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuqvrDkrHN0lTrVUQlB77MvaiI83W4zMAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-lynn-hansen-richard-robbins-and-thomas-mitchell/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230604T150000
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poet's Corner Reading/Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us at McHenry Museum on Sunday\, June 4 at 1 pm for a reading featuring the winners of the 2023 Poet’s Corner Contest\, sponsored by the City of Modesto. \nFor contest information\, please visit the City of Modesto Poet’s Corner page. (Contest info will be updated soon.)
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading-reception/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Readings,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bryan Medina\, Joseph Rios\, Michael Meyerhofer\, and Kenneth Chacón
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Four Fresno Poets: Bryan Medina\, Joseph Rios\, Michael Meyerhofer\, and Kenneth Chacón. \nHosted by Gillian Wegener\nDate: Tuesday\, May 9\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PDT\non Zoom–RSVP required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuceuuqDIjG9D7nH7UsdTrO5qDQlW6f7Lp \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nBryan Medina\n Bryan Medina has been a fixture in the Fresno literary community for over 25 years. A former student of California Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, his poetry has graced stages in the Bay Area\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded the Inner Ear Poetry Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Bryan has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations for contributions to Fresno’s rich artistic and cultural heritage and has been featured as one of the four “Fresno Poets” from writer Nick Belardes’s Distinguished Valley Writers series as well as appeared in journals such as Poetry\, Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In The Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs and was an Honorable Mention in the ‘06 Larry Levis Poetry Prize. He is a graduate of Fresno Pacific University and teaches Special Education. \nJoseph Rios\nBorn in Clovis\, Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn)\, winner of the American Book Award; he was named one of the Notable Debut Poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. His poems can be found at Poem A Day\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and on Metro buses and trains in Los Angeles. He was recently named a Stegner Fellow by Stanford University. He lives in Fresno.  \nMichael Meyerhofer\nMichael Meyerhofer’s fifth book\, Ragged Eden\, was published by Glass Lyre Press. He has been the startled recipient of fourteen national writing awards including the James Wright Poetry Award\, the Liam Rector First Book Award\, the Brick Road Poetry Book Prize\, and several chapbook prizes. His work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry\, Rattle\, Brevity\, Ploughshares\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, and other journals. He is also the author of a fantasy series.  \nKennth Chacón\nKenneth Chacón is the author of The Cholo Who Said Nothing & Other Poems(Turning Point\, 2017). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Palette Poetry\, Blackbird\, and Huizache among others. Chacón is a native of Fresno\, California and teaches English at Fresno City College. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/may2023/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T140000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate National Poetry Month\, MoSt Poetry will have a reading featuring poets who serve on our non-profit’s board followed by an open mic. Please join us at 1:00 p.m. PT on Saturday\, April 22\, 2023 in the Stanislaus County Library. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry On Saturday: Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Arts Center  \n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California \n            Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday readings in person on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock.  Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve from the Bay Area\, followed by our Open Mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nAndrena Zawinski is a veteran teacher of writing Jack Hirschman called “an activist poet whose works open up paths of struggle\, celebration\, revolutionary victories.”  About her fourth full-length poetry collection\, Born Under the Influence\, Mary Mackey lauds the poems as “tough\, smart\, beautifully crafted” and Michael Simms says\, “we are lucky to have this poet among us.”  Her work has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, CQ\, Plainsongs\, Progressive Magazine\, Rattle\, and more\, and is widely anthologized\, including Crossing Class\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter\, Women Write Resistance\, and others with awards from Akron Art Museum\, International Human Rights Creators of Justice\, Ventura County Poetry Project\, Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize\, Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize\, and PEN Oakland Award.  She was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, PA\, but has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about Andrena’s latest book\, visit:   https://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/zawinski.html \n \nBorn and raised in New England\, Susie Meserve is the author of the poetry collection Little Prayers\, which won a Blue Light Award from Blue Light Press and was published in 2018.  She is also the author of the chapbook Faith.  Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, Elle\, The Washington Post\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Gulf Coast\, Salamander\, and more.  She lives in northern California with her family. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan  Cohen\, on Tuesday\, January 10\, 2023 at 7:00 p\,m PST.  Hosted by Stella Beratlis\, city of Modesto poet laureate emeritus. \nRSVP for Zoom link \nOpen  Mic Signup: https://forms.gle/d51j2WqGmBrzrTLT9. 3 minutes per reader\, please.  \nSUSAN COHEN\nSusan Cohen is a journalist and poet in Berkeley\, California. She has been a newspaper reporter\, a contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine\, and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California. In 2013\, she earned an MFA in poetry. Her third full-length book of poems\, Democracy of Fire\, was released from Broadstone Books on September 30\, 2022; it was a finalist for the Washington Prize\, Wilder Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize\,  \nSusan’s second book of poems\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. It also was a runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize\, finalist for the May Swenson Award\, Blue Lynx Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize. \nSusan’s first full-length book of poems\, Throat Singing\, was published in 2012 by Cherry Grove Collections. She also wrote two chapbooks: Backstroking (Unfinished Monument Press; 2005)\, which won the Acorn-Rukeyser Prize; and Finding the Sweet Spot (Finishing Line Press; 2009). \nAbout Democracy of Fire\nA thread of elegy runs through Democracy of Fire\, Susan Cohen’s wise and wonderful new poetry collection. Tenderly\, precisely\, these poems record a litany of the world’s ongoing losses: “Greenland’s ice sheet pooling like tears into the ocean\,” elephants\, beetles\, democracies\, “languages left behind like cloaks\,” and “our own bones interred without ceremony.” Cohen shows us our interconnectedness\, a reminder of both the beauty and value of what’s at stake. Yet\, paradoxically\, this vision makes Democracy of Fire a deeply comforting book. Of the planet Mercury she writes\, “…a pinprick ablaze for longer than our species will exist…Between us and it\, there’s a distance far beyond air\, and beyond despair.” \n—Ellen Bass\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets & author of Indigo \n  \nBrad Buchanan\nBrad Buchanan’s writings have appeared in nearly 200 journals\, and he has also published 4 book-length collections of poetry: his latest\, CHIMERA\, was just published in November 2022. The Miracle Shirker (Poets Corner Press\, 2005)\, Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter (Roan Press\, 2008)\, and The Scars\, Aligned: A Cancer Narrative (Finishing Line Press\, 2019) as well as two academic books. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Sacramento State University.  He was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in February 2015\, and underwent a stem cell transplant in 2016\, which involved temporary vision loss and disability\, as well as an ongoing illness: chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease. \nAbout CHIMERA\nBrad Buchanan‘s painfully stunning new collection\, CHIMERA\, continues his explorations of the monstrosities that cancer can create in the lives of human beings as they struggle through invasive testing\, treatments\, recovery\, and the hope of being cancer-free that stem cell transplants offer. Buchanan…documents\, reports\, questions\, disputes both himself and the world cancer and chimerism force him to confront. He helps us see and feel in a most visceral way what it means—for him\, for us\, for those he loves and those who love him—to be engaged in this struggle. “Cancer is not your standard bully\, / it will not back down if confronted / with sufficiently brave defiance. / It doesn’t have a nervous system / to mobilize or sympathize. / The only martial arts it knows/ are patience\, stealth and resilience.” These poems will surprise you with their tenacity\, empathy and ingenious language. \n–Susan Kelly-DeWitt\, author of SPIDER SEASON (Cold River Press\, 2016) and GRAVITATIONAL TUG (Main Street Rag Publishing\, 2020) \n  \nRegister in advance for this reading:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkc-uopzIiE9CmsJAOxm1JzNtUdnMXYXqN \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/jan2023stp/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Carnegie Poetry on Saturday Series  2:00 p.m. November 19\, 2022 featuring Bryan Medina & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Saturday\, November 19\, 2022 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA  from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for a poetry reading by Bryan Medina and Linda Scheller with an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \n        S. Bryan Medina is a former student of U. S. poet laureate emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, and his poetry has graced stages in the San Francisco BayArea\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded both the Inner Ear Open Mic and the Beat Down  Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Medina\, a long-time art activist\, has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations\, including the 2014 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award\, for contributions to the rich artistic and cultural heritage in Fresno. He is the author of More than Soil\, Less than Sand and his work has appeared in journals such as Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In the Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs\, among others. In 2017 Medina was named Fresno County’s third Poet Laureate\, serving a distinguished two-year term reaching out to the community featuring readings\, school and university visits\, writing workshops\, and meetings with business and political leaders throughout the state of California.  Medina is a Desert Storm/Gulf War veteran and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.\n\n\n        Linda Scheller is a retired public elementary school teacher and the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce\nLight (FutureCycle Press\, 2017) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag\, 2022) as well as a chapbook\, Halcyon. Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are widely published in journals and anthologies including Colorado Review\, Arkana\, Gyroscope Review\, Plays\, On the Seawall\, Sugar House Review\, Poetry East\, and The Wild Word. She volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio\, tutors adults in literacy and English language acquisition\, and serves on the boards of MoSt Poetry and the Stanislaus County Arts Council. Ms. Scheller is a member of the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women and sings with Modesto Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Her website is lindascheller.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegie-poetry-on-saturday-series-200-p-m-november-19-2022-featuring-bryan-medina-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T200000
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SUMMARY:Kiss Me Like You Voted: Election Night Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world\, wrote the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821 in the essay\, “A Defence of Poetry.” By this\, he meant that poetry reflects the real world and that the poet’s imagination is the faculty  which allows us to perceive beauty in the world–thereby helping create civilization itself. Poets are makers of civilization\, no less–hence\, poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. \nWith this in mind\, we invite you to the Election Day installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series. The November 8 reading is a virtual open mic around the questions: How do we reckon the promise of this country with its violent past and present? How can we love when so much is on the line? How can we NOT love? \nOpen mic 15 poets max; 3 minutes per person–sign up to read at https://forms.gle/izdLKgzryo1uFzwLA \nRSVP for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOqhpjgrGNZ9calCIAyo_9KPb7XWmAy_ \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2022nov8/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells & James Fujinami Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore  \nJoin us as we welcome two tremendous poets to our Second Tuesday Poetry series: State of Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore of Los Angeles. Both have new collections published by Four Way Books. We’re pleased to welcome these poets to our Central Valley poetry community.  Open mic follows featured poets\, 3 min per poet\, please. Sign up for open mic. \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, October 11\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link \nCyrus Cassells\nA 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, Cyrus Cassells has also been a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and a Lannan Literary Award. His first book\, The Mud Actor\, was a 1981 National Poetry Series Selection. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. His Catalan translations\, Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. He was nominated for a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his cultural criticism for The Washington Spectator. My Gingerbread Shakespeare\, his first novel\, and his seventh book of poems\, Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? were published in 2021. In 2021\, he was appointed Texas poet laureate\, and in 2022\, Cassells received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and his eighth collection The World That the Shooter Left Us was published by Four Way Press. He lives in Austin and is a tenured full professor at Texas State University. \nAbout The World That the Shooter Left Us\n“Wrestling in the clutches of fury and mourning\, Cassells—long a master purveyor of both the splendor and contradictions of the natural world\, as well as the voluptuary elements of the self—turns his consummate clear-eyed gaze to a bleak and burgeoning brutality that threatens our days\, siphons the spirit and challenges the realm of the poet. The World the Shooter Left Us is a world defined by stark boundaries and firepower\, chalk outlines\, rampant injustices and histories tainted with each and every version of sin. Cassells\, a wily and relentless witness\, doesn’t tiptoe through the maelstrom or allow the reader to turn away. Instead\, he becomes the writer that this moment needs—one with the lyrical skill and decades of experience to craft this revelatory guidebook for our grief.” —Patricia Smith  \n“The World That the Shooter Left Us is poetry of conscience at its most crafted and compassionate. The title poem is an elegy for a beloved Latino lawyer\, murdered by a white assailant over a parking space\, that forces us to contemplate all we have lost in a society bristling with guns\, rage and bigotry. However\, the title of another poem captures the essence of this eloquent collection: “The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency.” In the face of plague after plague—COVID-19\, lethal police violence\, kids in cages\, the end of asylum\, sexual exploitation\, Trumpism—these poems show us a way out\, a vision of transcendence through reclamation of our humanity. Cyrus Cassells demonstrates\, through the resplendent decency of these poems\, that the world the shooter left us is not only a world of death\, but life\, not only bullets\, but poetry.”\n–Martin Espada \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore\nJames Fujinami Moore’s debut collection indecent hours was published by Four Way Books in 2022. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow\, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Fellow\, and the Four Way Books Fellow at the Frost Place Conference in Poetry. He received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nAbout indecent hours \n“James Fujinami Moore’s powerful poems keep intimacy active in their measure and perspectives\, working through a wide range of public and private histories. They close in and zoom out with an intensity of tonal scale\, one that binds an elegance steeped in experience with all the irreducible cuts and marks the poems invoke and depict. Those cuts and marks may be rendered with a surrealist’s touch or a realist’s blunt recall\, as needed\, and with a precise understanding of the various physical and emotive overlapping roles the glimpse\, the conversation\, the story\, the touch\, and the brawl each retain. indecent hours is a terrific book.”  -Anselm Berrigan \n“James Fujinami Moore’s poems possess the uncanny capacity to be at once unsettled and unnervingly lucid. It is this particular power that fuels his searing investigations—into the intimate relationships between representation and violence\, into how families and countries take shape around those who are missing. Moore’s poems are urgent\, achingly searching\, unflinching. Here is a poet who moves as he needs to—flipping foreground and background\, rewinding and replaying\, refusing the distortions of fear.”  –Mary Syzbist  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvduuqqD4rGdz7w9BSPEysavrDAG4cdbBq\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/oct2022/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas and Ian Miller
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas and Ian Miller \nJoin us at 7 pm on Zoom as we feature Gary Thomas\, reading from his new collection All the Connecting Lights. He is joined by poet Ian Miller of Modesto. \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, Sept 13\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nOn Zoom–Please RSVP for link \nOpen mic follows featured poets. Three minutes per reader; please sign up for open mic. \nGary Thomas \nGary Thomas taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years\, and junior college English for seven—sharing and discussing at least one poem each day with his students.  He has presented poetry workshops for statewide organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. He has had poems published in In the Grove and The Comstock Review\, among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. He is currently vice president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, is a member of the Curriculum Study Commission and of the local writing group known as The Licensed Fools.  A full-length collection\, ALL THE CONNECTING LIGHTS\, was released in August 2022 from Finishing Line Press. \nAll the Connecting Lights\nAll the Connecting Lights is a marvel\, an homage to the unnoticed and ordinary\, a tender and sweeping reckoning of childhood\, nature\, the mystery of epilepsy\, and how our lives and memories intersect. Thomas sees nuances and symmetries that most of us don’t.  I reveled in the joy of “staying lost” and the grace of “spring rationales.”  I’ve been waiting for this book. It is a chronicle of wonder by a truly gifted poet.\n–Lee Herrick\, author of Scar and Flower \n Gary Thomas’ poems range widely and feel deeply.  From his childhood on a Central California peach farm to the tragic Battle of Aleppo to imagined lives and voices of others\, Thomas’ poems strike chords of generosity and nostalgia and wonder and\, one of his favorite words\, grace.  Reading these poems allows us as the readers to take part in worlds that feel at once familiar and lost to us\, where Neruda and a farm woman share an unlikely birthday tea\, and where we all\, in reading each of these portraits of a moment in time\, are able to “Gladly bear joy’s burden.”\n–Gillian Wegener\, author of This Sweet Haphazard \n In Gary Thomas’ generous full-length collection All the Connecting Lights\, his poetry traverses and pays homage to both real and imaginary landscapes—from the Great Central Valley to a peach farm outside Empire\, California to castle rooms “built in the exosphere.”  Striking images abound.  In “Oleanders and Whoopee Cushions\,” he writes\, “a robin’s burst blue egg / a stiff black widow in her viscous web / earwigs belly up or ready to boil out at a touch.”  These are poems that artfully document moments of the human experience\, “Here abide the lost\, those / abandoned to swirl among / dust motes\, free range sheep\, /and unused memory\, / whose textures and traces / might still be familiar and felt\, / if only in this moment.”  Thomas’ debut collection connects the lights with poetic grace and emotional honesty.\n–Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House \n\nIan Miller\n Ian Miller is a Californian poet\, born and mostly raised in a little passing town called Oakdale. He is the author of June 30th\, 2022 published by Lulu Press (2022) and recently published collections Neon Promises and Neon Promises: Pinky Promise Edition\, both published by Lulu Press (2022). He is currently working on two more projects; one is titled Nothing’s Changed\, and the other is titled Gertie\, Bear\, and Bugaroo: A Mother and Son Project. Neither have an expected completion date yet. Ian currently works at the Modesto Junior College’s Library & Learning Center as an Instructional Support Assistant\, primarily helping to supervise the Writing and Embedded Tutors. He is also working towards a double major in Psychology and English with the end goal being to enter into higher education.  \nThe aforementioned books can be found for purchase here: https://linktr.ee/iandmiller
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/secondtues2022sep/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas will read their poetry on August 13\, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. during MoSt Poetry on Saturday at the Carnegie Arts Center\, located at 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, CA. There will be light refreshments and an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \nNancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet\, educator\, and activist. Her work has appeared in Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature\, La Tolteca\, Mujeres De Maiz Zine\, Hinchas de Poesía\,  Fifth Wednesday Journal and several other literary journals. Her work is featured in Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, Sacramento Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology\, Lowriting: Shots\, Rides\, and Stories from the Chicano Soul\, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. \n  \n. Gary Thomas grew up on a peach farm outside Empire\, California.  Prior to retirement\, he taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years and junior college English for seven\, sharing and discussing at least one poem every day with his students.  He has presented poetry workshops for statewide organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. He has had poems published in In the Grove\, Time of Singing\, and The Comstock Review\, among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets. He is currently vice president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.  All the Connecting Lights\, published by Finishing Line Press\, is his first full-length collection.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-nancy-aide-gonzalez-and-gary-thomas/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry presents Field Studies: Poems We Love
DESCRIPTION:[Field research is defined as a qualitative method of data collection that aims to observe\, interact and understand people while they are in a natural environment.] \nSecond Tuesday Poetry presents Field Studies\, Poems We Love \nFIELD STUDIES. Maybe poets are social scientists at heart: We ask questions and seek to understand the world\, ourselves\, each other. For this open mic reading\, please come prepared to read a poem that you love–one in which witness\, documentation\, analysis\, and/or understanding are key. You’ll have 3-4 minutes to read your poem(s).  Hosted by Stella Beratlis.  \nDate: Tuesday\, August 9\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nZoom RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-yuqzIuHN2hEdFucto5F3xrkxX-lplH\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-presents-field-studies-poems-we-love/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Linda Scheller & Zubair Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Zubair Ahmed and Linda Scheller  \nDate: Tuesday\, July 12\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST \nRSVP for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcu6oqD4sGNDZmBo6MV6JoEG46YsUVpYJ  \n  \nLinda Scheller\nLinda Scheller is a poet\, playwright\, and essayist whose work has recently been published in Colorado Review\, On the Seawall\, Arkana\, Sugar House Review\, Terrain\, The Museum of Americana\, and The Wild Word. Her first book of poetry\, Fierce Light\, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2017. Recent honors include finalist for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Book Prize and The Word Works Washington Prize as well as Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations. She is a founding board member of MoSt Poetry\, serves on the Stanislaus County Arts Council\, programs for KCBP Community Radio\, and belongs to the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. Wind & Children\, her new poetry book\, was published by Main Street Rag on June 8\, 2022. \n “Linda Scheller’s Wind and Children is a tragic and beautiful exposition of a teacher’s heart. Tinged with the uncertain fates of her children\, California climate chaos\, and bright birdsong\, these poems sing as a poignant “flute for the wind” in a broken “system that fosters indifference.” Through exquisite metaphor and gripping imagery\, this “mother of thousands” pens 36 years of service with grace and wonder\, regret and hope. And like a true teacher—with love. ~Kai Coggin\, educator and author of Mining for Stardust \n“In Linda Scheller’s Wind and Children\, fifth graders sit “hunched and silent/like a cloud of butterflies/forced to earth.” We worry over them\, their parents\, their homes\, the violence that surrounds them. Scheller refuses to turn away from difficult realities\, yet seeks understanding\, looking to the natural world. Reader\, you’ll travel far before you’ll find a more thoughtful guide than the one you meet and learn to love in the pages of this moving\, care-filled book.” ~Christopher Citro\, author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun \n“Scheller brings the focus of her lens to the world\, showcasing a lifetime of literary lessons\, poetic remembrances\, and artistic manifestations. This volume is a beautiful addition to her work.” ~Indigo Moor\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something \nFor more information and links to publications\, please go to lindascheller.com. \nZubair Ahmed\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Dhaka\, Bangladesh. He works as an engineer in Oakland. He also writes poetry\, having been named by Poets & Writers magazine as one of the top debut poets of 2012. His collection City of Rivers (McSweeney’s\, 2012) was nominated for the California Book Award. Zubair’s works have appeared in Poetry Magazine and The Believer\, among others\, and have been translated into Swedish and French.  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-linda-scheller-zubair-ahmed/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Clay Hunt and Briana Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Clay Hunt and Briana Muñoz\, hosted by Stella Beratlis.  \nTuesday\, June 14\, 2022\n7:00 pm PST w/ open mic \non Zoom–RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOqvrz8pG9Yi9Z0cV9-AoGodS4mymh-Q \nRSVP Open Mic (3 min per poet): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezxMg1qBq4z4NyNQWRckkONw_hR-JWWJ8HsJ__XjSDKx34GA/viewform \n  \nBriana Muñoz\nBriana Muñoz is a Poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips published by Prickly Pear Publishing (2019) and of Everything Is Returned to the Soil published by FlowerSong Press (2021). She has performed poetry in places like UNEAC (The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba)\, CECUT (The Tijuana Cultural Center)\, El Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego and beyond.  \nBriana currently serves as the Volunteer Event Coordinator for the Sims Library of Poetry and the Volunteer Event Coordinator for the Luis J Rodriguez for CA Governor 2022 campaign. \nAbout Everything is Returned to the Soil/ Todo Vuelve a la Tierra:  \nEverything Is Returned to the Soil is a bilingual\, full-length poetry collection of poems on the spiritual\, political\, and cultural realms. Reading Briana Muñoz’s poetry is like following her as she reclaims her Indigenous culture\, recounts moments growing up wedged in-between two borders\, all while breaking long existing patriarchal structures within her existence as a woman of color.  \nhttps://linktr.ee/Awomanofwords \nLinks to purchase books: https://www.flowersongpress.com/store/p/everythingisreturnedtothesoil\nhttps://www.pricklypearpublishing.com/shop/loose-lips \nClay Hunt\nClay Hunt is the author of three chapbooks: Born Shane\, published by Two Key Customs\, Young When the Sun Went Down\, published by Budget Press\, and Sewn-On Patch\, published by Between Shadows Press. He has poems published in many journals\, some which include Spectra Poets\, The Raw Art Review\, Paper and Ink Literary Zine\, The Rye Whiskey Review\, Penumbra\, Song of the San Joaquin\, Seppuku Quarterly\, and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Some of his poems have won awards such as 2nd place in poetry in Modesto Junior College’s Celebration of the Humanities\, The Dark Sire’s TDS Awards 2021 for poetry\, and the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner Contest. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife\, Laura. \nYoung When the Sun Went Down chapbook can be found at Budgetpress.net \nEmail: Chuntjr89@gmail.com\nInstragram: @claytanic89
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-with-clay-hunt-and-briana-munoz/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Susan Kelly-Dewitt & Linda Toren
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Susan Kelly-Dewitt and Linda Toren.  \nHosted by Gary Thomas  \nDate: Tuesday\, May 10\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST \non Zoom–RSVP required: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf–tqTwjHtzOiKfx1CE232QV992N-gyG \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout Susan Kelly-Dewitt\nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of The Gatherer’s Alphabet\, just published in 2022\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, and The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008). \nHer work has been included in many national and regional anthologies including The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press)\, When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women  (Autumn House Press)\, : In Whatever Houses We May Visit: an Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians (American College of Physicians) and Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women’s Poetry (Beacon Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, New Letters\, North American Review and many others. She has been featured on Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily.  \nSusan has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, The Chicago Literary Award from Another Chicago Magazine\, the Bazzanella Award for Short Fiction and a number of Pushcart nominations.  She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. \nOver the years she has worked as a freelance writer and poetry columnist for the Sacramento Bee and Sacramento Union as the editor of the on-line journal Perihelion and the print journal Quercus.  She has been a California Poet-in-the-Schools\, Artistic Director for the Women’s Wisdom Project arts program for homeless and low-income women\, an educator\, and an artist in the prisons.  She lives in Sacramento\, California\, where she is a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and a reviewer for Library Journal.  Previously she was an instructor for the University of California\, Davis and a blogger for Autumn House Press’ Coal Hill Review. She is also an exhibiting visual artist. \nGatherer’s Alphabet is the first book in Gunpowder Press’s California Poets Series. \nPraise for Gatherer’s Alphabet: \nThese luscious poems feel like small museums of infinite wonder. Gallery\, butterfly\, stars in autumn. The wisdom of nature\, the work of angels\, what women endure—I love these poems.  A timeless grace breathes through this marvelous book\, this bounty you’ll be grateful that you read. ­—Lee Herrick\, Fresno Poet Laureate (2015-17) author of Scar and Flower\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This Many Miles from Desire \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt’s concentrations come to life as if in a studio\, with watercolor washes and ink accentuations. As well as mother and father\, ghosts and angels\, words are animated characters urgently communicating— whistling to animals or dogwood gods\, pinches of anger too—a tool to save us. Is she holding a pen—or a moth by its wings? Poems like “Words” and “The Thorne Miniatures” and the title poem gaze multi-eyed at the reader from the palm of her offering hand. — Sandra McPherson\, author of The 5150 Poems and Speech Crush \nWhat I love about Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s poems are the colors\, how they “hold / themselves out / to be touched.” Her mother is described as having “storm-colored hair.” Silence is a “white bulb.” The past is a minefield of blue flowers. This bringing together of nature and mind\, the mundane and the transcendent\, is the result of the poet’s unrestrained sympathy for all living things. Kelly-DeWitt’s companions in this vision-quest are O’Keeffe and Van Gogh\, artists who paint not the appearance of field and cloud\, but the primal energy beneath the surface. The act of seeing is the true subject here. We are fortunate to have Kelly-DeWitt to guide us through this journey. —Michael Simms\, editor of Vox Populi\, author of Nightjar \nComing from a world “sheltered by cold leaves of starlight\,” Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s powerful new work serves as a garden for ghosts\, windows\, and angels capable of making ordinary events extraordinary.  A sharp sense of loss is integral to Gatherer’s Alphabet\, which is steeped in the particulars of memory\, the pebbles\, the dark pits. Here is an “impossible country of imagination“ that must be visited over and over. —Maya Khosla\, Poet Laureate Emerita of Sonoma County\, author of All the Fires of Wind and Light \nAbout Linda Toren\nLinda Toren lives in the foothills of Calaveras County with her husband Theo\, dogs\, a cat\, and many chickens.  Linda is a retired teacher and director of Voices of Wisdom through Manzanita Writers Press (MWP).  She has presented poetry workshops for children and adults\, publishing schoolwide collections of poetry and art at local elementary schools for more than 15 years. \nHer poetry appears in many collections\, including Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode & Sierra (MWP 1995–2008)\, Voices of Wisdom (MWP 2018\, 2019\, 2022)\, Out of the Fire (MWP 2017)\, Collision V: an Intersection of Poetry and Photography (2018)\, and more. This year\, her first full-length collection\, Raven Braids the Wind: A Life in Syllables\, was published by Manzanita Writers Press.   \nRaven Braids the Wind started with a simple assignment in elementary school— write a haiku. That first haiku—Lonely people live/within themselves like dusty/ books upon a shelf—is a senryu (a haiku poem focused on personal reflection or comment about the self or world.) Thousands of haiku later\, this poetic form has become a daily journey in which the author explores and translates the natural world and the inner world of introspection. Whether or not you write haiku\, you will be able to appreciate their accessibility and simplicity and find yourself opening doors and windows to companionable thoughts and feelings.  \nLinda produces a community radio program dedicated to poetry\, prose\, nonfiction literary news\, lyrics\, and the celebration of thoughts and language at KQBM Blue Mountain Radio (KQBM.org).  \nPraise for Raven Braids the Wind: \n \nLinda Toren has graced readers with her haiku meditations on the world—both the natural world and the chaotic one humans have wrought.  Her poems take us on a seasonal journey through pine forests and chicken coops\, through road-side sweet peas\, on ravens’ wings\, and through the dreams and puzzlement of modern life.  Toren’s careful attention allows the reader a window into her love and compassion for these worlds\, in all their flawed wonder.  One haiku reads “How do I gather/ the threads of my life into/ some kind of order?” Lucky for us\, in this collection\, Linda Toren does just that\, and the order revealed is deeply personal\, poignant\, and beautiful. —Gillian Wegener\, author of This Sweet Haphazard (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2017) \n  \nRaven Braids the Wind by Linda Toren is a collection of lovely and thought-provoking haiku and senryu graced with charming artwork. Toren’s haiku transport the reader into the garden\, the busy barnyard\, and the woodlands where birds\, plants\, animals\, and weather impart wisdom and elicit questions that Toren transposes into concise and musical language. Her senryu distill the vicissitudes of emotion\, recent sociopolitical perturbations\, and pandemic upheaval\, deftly portraying the human condition in clean\, contemplative lines.  The juxtaposition of these two poetic forms reflects the dichotomy of contentment and disquiet\, the eternal and the ephemeral\, in measured syllables that brilliantly convey vivid imagery and lucid observations.  Linda Toren’s Raven Braids the Wind is a treasure. –Linda Scheller\, author of Wind and Children (Main Street Rag\, June 2022) and Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press\, 2017)
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-4/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Many Voices\, One Community: Gillian Wegener and Salvatore Salerno
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center & Stanislaus County Library Present Many Voices\,  One Community\,  featuring Gillian Wegener and Salvatore Salerno\,  emeritus and current Poets Laureate of Modesto \nCelebrate National Poetry Month by sharing your poetry! Read your poetry\, or poems from one of your favorite poets. Reading time limited to three minutes per person.   \nThursday\, April 28 \nat 7 p.m. on Zoom \nRegister at www.stanislauslibrary.org to receive the Zoom link. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/many-voices-one-community-gillian-wegener-and-salvatore-salerno/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring the poetry of Mexican poet Ulalume González de León
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring the poetry of Mexican poet Ulalume González de León from Plagiarisms/Plagios Vol. 2 \nwith translators Terry Ehret &Nancy J. Morales and guest poet-translator William O’Daly.  \nHosted by Stella Beratlis \nZoom–RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdu-oqDktGNSizk4tQoG2D1gD0ynwn0CD. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic signup link (3 min per poet): https://forms.gle/PHW4ixpkG3U3zwJk8 \nAbout Ulalume González de León \n  \nUlalume González de León was born in 1928 in Montevideo\, Uruguay\, the daughter of two poets\, Roberto Ibañez and Sara de Ibañez. She studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Mexico. \nWhile living in Mexico in 1948\, Ulalume became a naturalized Mexican citizen. She married painter and architect Teodoro González de León\, and together they had three children. She published essays\, stories\, and poems\, and worked with Mexican poet and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz as an editor of two literary journals\, Plural and Vuelta. She also translated the work of H.D.\, Elizabeth Bishop\, Ted Hughes\, Lewis Carroll\, and e.e. cummings. \nIn the 1970’s in Latin America\, González de León was part of a generation of women writers challenging the traditional identities of women\, marriage\, and relationships. Her poetry earned her many awards\, including the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize\, the Flower of Laura Poetry Prize\, and the Alfonso X Prize. Ulalume González de León died in 2009 of respiratory failure and complications of Alzheimer’s. \nAbout the Translators\nTerry Ehret\, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press\, has published four collections of poetry\, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series\, the California Book Award\, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize\, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award\, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006\, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches writing. \nNancy J. Morales\, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents\, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College\, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University\, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University\, College of Marin\, Sonoma State University\, and other schools\, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients. \nAbout William O’Daly\nWilliam O’Daly is co-founder of Copper Canyon Press and a noted Neruda translator.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-featuring-the-poetry-of-mexican-poet-ulalume-gonzalez-de-leon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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