BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center - ECPv6.15.13//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230110T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20221214T032512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221227T215644Z UID:2585-1673377200-1673380800@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/January-2023-Second-Tues.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20221006T222319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T164442Z UID:2490-1668866400-1668870000@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beige-Black-Floral-Minimalist-Line-Wedding-Facebook-Event-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20221026T174257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T175608Z UID:2534-1667934000-1667937600@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Second-Tues-2022-Nov-8-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220929T191945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T020723Z UID:2483-1665514800-1665518400@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Oct-2022-Second-Tues-Poetry-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220831T180335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T181832Z UID:2452-1663095600-1663099200@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sep-2022-Second-Tues.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220813T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220813T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220717T223308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T174041Z UID:2413-1660399200-1660402800@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Poetry-Reading-featuring-Gary-Thomas-Linda-Scheller-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220809T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220809T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220731T183152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220731T184205Z UID:2436-1660071600-1660075200@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Field-Studies.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220624T185025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T234338Z UID:2392-1657652400-1657656000@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Second-Tues-July-2022-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220614T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220606T230631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T230631Z UID:2375-1655233200-1655236800@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Second-Tues-June-2022-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220425T005335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T021834Z UID:2364-1652209200-1652212800@www.mostpoetry.org 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 CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Picture1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220321T171817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T171832Z UID:2358-1651174200-1651177800@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Many-Voices-One-Community-flyer-Facebook-Post-3-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220317T061239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T164524Z UID:2348-1649790000-1649793600@www.mostpoetry.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Second-Tuesday-April-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220402T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220402T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220320T030345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T170828Z UID:2353-1648908000-1648911600@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:A Reading with Lara Gularte in conjunction with Festa: A Celebration of Portuguese Faith & Culture DESCRIPTION:Join MoSt Poetry\, in partnership with the Carnegie Arts Center\, as we present a reading with Lara Gularte in conjunction with the main lobby exhibition Festa: A Celebration of Portuguese Faith & Culture. Gularte is joined by local poet Sara Coito.  \nLara Gularte lives and writes in the Sierra Foothills of California\, and she is El Dorado County Poet Laureate 2021-2023. Her book of poetry\, Kissing the Bee\, was published by “The Bitter Oleander Press\,” in 2018. Her forthcoming book\, Fourth World Woman\, published by Finishing Line Press\, was published earlier this year.  \nNominated for several Pushcart Prizes\, Gularte has been published in national and international journals and anthologies. Her poetry depicting her Azorean heritage is included in the The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry\, and in Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada.  She is affiliated with the Cagarro Colloquium: Azorian Diaspora Writers\, at the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI)\, California State University-Fresno.  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/a-reading-with-lara-gularte-at-the-carnegie-arts-center-in-conjunction-with-the-exhibit-festa-a-celebration-of-portuguese-faith-culture/ LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States CATEGORIES:Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/national-poetry-month-Apr-2022-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220209T212047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T215248Z UID:2334-1646766000-1646769600@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry presents Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets Reading DESCRIPTION:MoSt is thrilled to host a Zoom reading with Christopher Buckley\, Gordon Preston\, Lee Herrick\, and Sam Pereira\, who will talk about and read work from the anthology Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets. The reading will include poems and excerpts from interviews and essays.  \nWith open mic following the featured poets; 3 minutes per reader. \nWhen: Tuesday\, March 8\, 2022 at 7 pm PST\nWhere: Zoom (RSVP in advance for link: https://tinyurl.com/4c3byekj)  \nLink for open mic signup: https://forms.gle/xVfDF4hUx89REVmq7 \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-presents-naming-the-lost-the-fresno-poets-reading/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/naming-the-lost-fb-cover-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220213T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220125T033955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T212357Z UID:2311-1644760800-1644764400@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series featuring Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore for the February 13th\, 2022 edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00pmPacific Time.          \nHeather Altfeld’s second book of poems\, Post Mortem\, published in 2021 by Orison Books\, was selected by Eric Pankey for the 2019 Orison Prize.  Her first book\, The Disappearing Theatre\, won the 2015 Poets at Work Prize.  She is the 2017 recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.  Her work appears or is forthcoming in Conjunctions Magazine\, Aeon\, Orion Magazine\, Narrative\, ZYZZYVA\, Poetry Northwest\, and others.  She teaches in the Honors Program and for the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University\, Chico. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \nTroy Jollimore is the author of four books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews.  His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006.  His third\, Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times’ list of the best books of poetry published in 2015.  His most recent collection of poetry\, Earthly Delights\, was published by Princeton University Press in 2021.  He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico.  His poems have appeared in publications including the New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, and The Best American Poetry 2020. \n  \nTo attend the February 13\, 2022  Poetry on Sunday Series reading\, please register using the link below. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucuGtrDIvHNMw1JjSYCkeUpOrZlGJHTMR \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-february-13-2022-at-200pm-pacific-time-featuring-troy-jollimore-and-heather-altfeld/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20220123T050020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220123T050020Z UID:2292-1644346800-1644350400@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Kelly Cressio-Moeller & John Sibley Williams DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present the Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Kelly Cressio-Moeller and John Sibley Williams\, hosted by Stella Beratlis with an open mic following the featured poets.  \nTuesday\, February 8\, 2022 \n7 pm PST \nRSVP for Zoom  \nSign up for open mic (3 mins per reader) \nKelly Cressio-Moeller\nKelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes\, Best New Poets\, and Best of the Net\, and have appeared widely in journals and at literary websites including Gargoyle\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, Salamander\, THRUSH Poetry Journal\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, Water~Stone Review\, and ZYZZYVA\, among others. An associate editor at Glass Lyre Press\, she lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, two sons\, and basset hound. Shade of Blue Trees from Two Sylvias Press (Finalist for the Wilder Prize) is her first poetry collection. Visit her website at www.kellycressiomoeller.com \nJohn Sibley Williams\nJohn Sibley Williams is the author of seven poetry collections. The most recent are the forthcoming Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award\, 2021) and The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award\, 2021)\, just published this month. A twenty-six-time Pushcart nominee\, John is the winner of numerous awards\, including the Laux/Millar Prize\, Wabash Prize\, Philip Booth Award and others. Previous publishing credits include Best American Poetry\, Yale Review\, Midwest Quarterly\, Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Poetry Northwest\, among many others. John holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He is the founder and head teacher of Caesura Poetry Workshop\, a virtual workshop series\, and he serves as co-founder and editor of The Inflectionist Review. He also works as a poetry editor and book coach. John lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-kelly-cressio-moeller-john-sibley-williams/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Driving-Back-to-1995.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20211223T230639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211224T004123Z UID:2237-1641927600-1641931200@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Erin Rodoni & Dana Koster DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center invites you to the first Second Tuesday Poetry reading of 2022\, featuring Erin Rodoni and Dana Koster.  \nWhen: Tuesday\, January 11\, 2022 at 7 pm PST\nWhere: Zoom (RSVP https://tinyurl.com/4c3byekj)\n \nERIN RODONI\nErin Rodoni’s most recent book is And if the Woods Carry You\, winner of the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her two previous collections are: Body\, in Good Light and A Landscape for Loss. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies such as Blackbird\, Poetry Northwest\, and Best New Poets. She has won awards from AWP\, Ninth Letter\, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She teaches at the Writing Salon in San Francisco and serves on the board of the Marin Poetry Center.  \nAnd if the Woods Carry You\, Winner of the 2020 Michael Waters Poetry Prize: On the brink of climate catastrophe\, a mother grappling with her choice to bring children into an apocalyptic world sends her daughters into the woods of fairy tale as a rite of initiation. The woods carry her fears of extinction— devastating fires\, rising seas\, and the predatory dangers of girlhood—but also contain the transformative magic of love\, interdependence\, and renewal. And if the Woods Carry You roots into the wild heart of motherhood\, where worry and wonder intertwine. \n“Like all great fairy tales\, Erin Rodoni’s poems are a glorious marriage of the domestic and the dangerous. There are tests and transformations\, solitudes and sacrifices\, births and burials. Everything is changing into something else\, something energized\, erotic\, and enchanted. But it is the poet’s attention to craft that lifts these poems from the beguiling world of mere narrative into the more magical realm of art. In language that feels both ancient and current\, Rodoni manages to craft lyrics that seem to come from some other world while speaking truths to this one. This is a marvelous book with a poetic voice to enliven even the wildest woods.” –Dean Rader\, author of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and Landscape Portrait Figure Form \nDANA KOSTER\nDana Koster was born in St. Paul\, Minnesota and grew up in Ventura\, California. She earned her English degree from UC Berkeley and MFA in poetry from Cornell University. From 2011-2013\, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in Modesto\, California with her husband and two sons\, where she works as a wedding photographer\, occasional freelance writer and half of the art partnership Broad Sides with her collaborator\, Chelsea America. \nDana’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in EPOCH\, Indiana Review\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, PN Review\, Clackamas Literary Review\, THRUSH Poetry Journal and many others.  She has work in the anthologies America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience\, Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books\, Haiku of the Living Dead and More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. In 2012\, she was the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award. Her first book\, Binary Stars\, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2017. She makes a lot of claims about immortality and ghosts on her twitter account. \n“We need a new word (astro-tropism?) for the poetry of Binary Stars. For the way it leaps into stellar depths to cast a gaze sharp as a hummingbird’s beak back on the extended family cluster. Two stars\, a larger and a smaller\, in tight rotation\, yield binary poems in clumps and couplets in the first-person dual and second-person singular: to the baby\, the husband (with orbiting cows\, horses\, and almonds)\, the burned-out but still gravitational father-in-law and mother\, and the therapist\, whose analytical gaze is returned with equal intensity. Koster has written a domestic poetry not “of the heart\,” not soft-focused\, but of the barycenter\, the binary center of gravity\, in which the familiar\, thrown off kilter\, becomes alienated\, estranged\, and new. Dare you read a poetry at the white heat? Then open Binary Stars\, an incandescent book of the first magnitude.”\n—John Shoptaw\, author of Times Beach \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-erin-rodoni-dana-koster/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211214T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20211130T062439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T062439Z UID:2227-1639508400-1639513800@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring George Higgins and Rick Bursky DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to welcome poets George Higgins and Rick Bursky on Tuesday\, December 14\, 2021. Register in advance for this meeting: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k6saw. Sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets: https://forms.gle/vYexC9AiS7d7Cgeo7.  Hosted by Stella Beratlis.  \nGeorge Higgins’s book\, There There\, was published by Kelsay Books/White Violet Press. He has been published in Best American Poetry and more recently in Prairie Schooner and Catamaran. \nRick Bursky’s most recent book\, Let’s Become a Ghost Story\, is out from BOA Editions. His previous book\, I’m No Longer Troubled by The Extravagance\, is also from BOA Editions. He teaches poetry for The Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-george-higgins-and-rick-bursky/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/December-2021_SecondTues.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211121T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211121T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210109T202651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T161334Z UID:1904-1637503200-1637510400@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series DESCRIPTION:Poetry On Sunday Series Reading: November 21\, 2021 \nJoin host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Gerald Fleming\, Michael Meyerhofer\, And Melchor Sahagun III for the November 21st\, 2021 edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00 P. M. Pacific Time. \nGerald Fleming‘s The Bastard and the Bishop is his third Hanging Loose Press title. Previous are Night of Pure Breathing and One\, an experiment in monosyllabic prose poems. He’s published two books with Sixteen Rivers Press (Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore and The Choreographer) and recently edited The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel\, also a Sixteen Rivers title. He’s edited literary magazines traditional\, vitreous\, and epistolary. \nMichael Meyerhofer’s fifth poetry book\, Ragged Eden\, was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2019. He has been the startled recipient of the James Wright Poetry Award\, the Brick Road Poetry Book Prize\, and other honors. He is also the author of a fantasy series\, and serves as the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review. For more information and an embarrassing childhood photo\, visit troublewithhammers.com. \nMelchor Sahagun III says\, “I do stuff; like Poetry\, Skateboarding\, Music\, Comic Books\, that sort of stuff. I’m in my late thirties\, but I somehow feel simultaneously younger and much older than I am—it’s weird. I’m weird. You’re weird. Life is weird. I don’t really know what I’m doing\, to be honest\, but that’s all right because neither do you. I like my cats\, A LOT. I like you a lot\, too.” \nOur usual Open Mic Time will follow the featured readers.  We look forward to seeing you! \nMoSt Poetry Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n\nTopic: MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series Reading–November 21\, 2021\nTime: Nov 21\, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81515649176\n\nMeeting ID: 815 1564 9176\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81515649176# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81515649176# US (Tacoma)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\nMeeting ID: 815 1564 9176\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kk6IhuChP\n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-11-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Modesto-Stanislaus-Poetry-Center-Presents-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20211025T155344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T235959Z UID:2198-1636484400-1636488000@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Cristina Sandoval & Manny Moreno DESCRIPTION:The‌ ‌Modesto-Stanislaus‌ ‌Poetry‌ ‌Center‌ ‌features‌ ‌poets Cristina Sandoval and Manny Moreno for the November installment‌ ‌of‌ ‌Second‌ ‌Tuesday‌ ‌Poetry.‌ ‌Join‌ ‌us‌ ‌to hear these two poets read for us as first-time featured poets on Tuesday\,‌ November 9\, at‌ ‌7‌ ‌pm‌\, ‌on‌ ‌Google Meet. Hosted‌ ‌by‌ ‌Stella‌  ‌Beratlis‌ ‌with‌ ‌open‌ ‌mic‌ ‌following‌ ‌the‌ ‌featured‌ ‌readers.‌ ‌  \nGoogle Meet link: https://meet.google.com/yzr-effe-nrh\nOtherwise\, to join by phone\, dial +1 760-654-5100 and enter this PIN: 914 592 889#\n \nSign up for Open Mic: https://forms.gle/v8J9cK9RXn4YDwwc9 \nCRISTINA SANDOVAL \nCristina Sandoval is an MFA student at Fresno State University and a poet to the bone. Cristina has been a purveyor of words since she can remember. She is a proud Chicana and is desperately in love with language. She often mixes her two languages\, Spanish and English\, in an attempt to bridge the beauty and hurt in both. Her work often focuses on family\, mental health\, and finding meaning in the terrible. She has two books on Amazon\, Moon Ride\, and We Need Bad Bitches. Her work has been featured in Penumbra\, Artifact Nouveau\, Exist(ir)\, and Dystopian Dance Party. Her thesis work is centered around the nature of family\, culture\, and hair. She is from Modesto\, California\, and now lives in Fresno. And if you were wondering\, yes\, she misses Mr. T’s Donuts!  \nMANNY MONOLIN \nMonolin “Manny” Moreno is the author of four books\, the most recent of which is a collection of poems\, Longview Road. Manny’s previous works include Scared–Coming Full Circle: A Memoir; his first poetry collection\, The Bridge Is Gone; and The Elder: A Tribute\, about the importance of elders in the community and about two Native American elders in particular.  \nHis poems are about growing up in Livingston\, where his family’s roots were established in the early 1900s\, and about a wide range of topics.  \nManny is a Member of the Black Wolf Honor Society Gourd Clan\, a member of Native American Church and Sundances yearly in South Dakota. Manny is of  Yaqui/Tarascan descent. Manny has been featured in interviews on Native Voice TV\, Channel 10\, Sacramento and Company\, KKUP Radio/Indian Time and Two Roads Productions. He has been a speaker at Modesto Junior College and various events. He was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2011. \nACCESS THE READING:  \nGoogle Meet: To join the video meeting\, click this link: meet.google.com/yzr-effe-nrh \nTo join by phone instead\, dial (US) +1 760-654-5100 and enter this PIN: 914 592 889# \nMore phone numbers: https://tel.meet/yzr-effe-nrh?pin=8948151384183 \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-3/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AUGUST-2021-SECOND-TUESDAY-Facebook-Post.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210929T212754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T235824Z UID:2186-1634065200-1634068800@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Julia B. Levine & Matthew Lippman plus open mic DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome poets Julia B. Levine and Matthew Lippman on Tuesday\, October 12\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430. Sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets.  \nJULIA B. LEVINE \nJulia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work\, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection of poetry\, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight\, (LSU press 2014)\, first prize in the 2019 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest\, 2019 Public Poetry Awards\, 2018 Tiferet Poetry Prize\, as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Poetry Prize for Ask\, and the 1998 Anhinga Poetry prize as well as a bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection\, Practicing for Heaven.  Her fifth and most recent collection\, Ordinary Psalms\, is now available from LSU press. \nMATTHEW LIPPMAN\nMatthew Lippman’s collection Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful (2020) is published by Four Way Books. It was the recipient of the 2018 Levis Prize. He is the author of 5 other poetry collections. \nTuesday\, October 12\, 2021 at 7 pm PDT \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430 \nOpen Mic signup: https://forms.gle/j6dsvm31MA2377Pu6 \n———— \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430 \n  \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll):  +16699006833\,91357899430#  or +12532158782\,91357899430#  \n  \nOr Telephone: \n    Dial: \n    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) \n    +1 253 215 8782 (US Toll) \n    +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll) \n    +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll) \n    +1 301 715 8592 (US Toll) \n    +1 312 626 6799 (US Toll) \n    Meeting ID: 913 5789 9430 \n  URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2186/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210815T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210815T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210729T041425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T053608Z UID:2123-1629036000-1629043200@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Poetry On Sunday Series featuring Dane Cervine & Stella Beratlis DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine for the Sunday\, August 15th edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom\, beginning at 2:00 P. M. Pacific Time.   \nStella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink (2015) and her latest collection\, Dust Bowl Venus (May 2021).  Her poems have appeared in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us:  Poems from the San Franciso Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2010) and California Fire and Water:  A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets\, 2020).  Beratis served as Modesto’s poet laureate from 2016-2020 and works as a librarian there. \nDane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag)\, and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword\, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii.  Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark Father\, How Therapists Dance\, The Jeweled Net of Indra\, and What a Father Dreams.  Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich\, Tony Hoagland\, the Atlanta Review\, Caesura\, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  His work appears in The SUN\, the Hudson Review\, TriQuarterly\, Poetry Flash\, Catamaran\, Miramar\, Rattle\, Sycamore Review\, and Pedestal Magazine\, among others.  You can read more about Dane at his blog: https://danecervine.typepad.com/ \nHere is the Zoom link to the reading: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375142037\nMeeting ID: 833 7514 2037 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83375142037# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83375142037# US (Houston) \nStella’s latest book\, Dust Bowl Venus\, and Dane’s new book\, The World is God’s Language\, have recently been published by Sixteen Rivers Press. For more information about the authors and the books\, go to these pages on the Sixteen Rivers site: \nhttps://sixteenrivers.org/authors/stellaberatlis/ \nhttps://sixteenrivers.org/authors/dane-cervine/ \nOur usual Open Mic Time will follow the featured readers.  We look forward to seeing you! URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegieaugust2021/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210726T032631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T052449Z UID:2099-1628622000-1628625600@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Nicca Ray and Michelle Cernuto DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center features authors Nicca Ray and Michelle Cernuto for the August installment of Second Tuesday Poetry. Join us for a great mix of poetry\, ghost fiction\, and punk rock memoir on Tuesday\, August 10 at 7 pm on Zooom. Hosted by Stella Beratlis with open mic following the featured readers.\n\nZoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91909197367\nOpen mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday\n\nNICCA RAY\nNicca Ray’s poetry collection\, BACK SEAT BABY\, was recently published by Chris D.’s Poison Fang Books. In the forward\, Ann Magnusun writes\, “Plumbing the depths of uncertainty and loneliness\, Ray finds gold in the collective swamplands of our souls.” The poet\, Charles Plymell\, calls Back Seat Baby the “High Noon of poetry.”\n\nNicca Ray’s memoir RAY BY RAY: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY (Three Rooms Press\, 2020) has been called “harrowing\, beautifully written and near-impossible to put down” by Shelf Awareness and “a daring revelation of strength and survival\, told unflinchingly\, bravely\, with empathy\, sympathy and ultimately an understanding of a great artist who is almost impossible to fathom\,” by Ronee Blakely\, actress\, singer and Academy Award nominee.\nNicca is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2020 Acker Award recipient.\n\nMICHELLE CERNUTO\nMichelle Cernuto is the author of the recently published YOU USED TO KNOW ME\, a fictional coming-of-age account of growing up in Las Vegas in the 80s.\n\n“A mash note from beyond the grave to a lost Vegas. 1980s punk teen dysfunction… a melancholic travelogue through a spiritual wasteland. The self-effacing murder victim gives us a matter-of-fact\, blow-by-blow commentary as she haunts both her friends and her predator in a suburban\, desert dystopia…. We see ominous harbingers of Death rushing headlong towards us\, much like an out-of-control carnival ride…locked into one final\, endlessly accelerating rollercoaster to oblivion. There’s no getting off\, and the effect is harrowing and masterful.– Chris D. (author of No Evil Star\, Dragon Wheel Splendor and Other Love Stories of Violence and Dread\, Mother’s Worry\, et.al.; singer/songwriter of the bands The Flesh Eaters and Divine Horsemen)\n\n“A vivid recollection of a crazy time in the crazy place of the American Southwest…a transitional time before entire cities were turned into theme parks. Magically real\, her story echoes the truth of the women I grew up with\, who fought an oppression they could feel empirically but not always articulate with street smarts and sheer guts. And then there are the ghosts…” – Victor Krummenacher (of bands Camper Van Beethoven\, Monks of Doom and The Third Mind) \n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91909197367\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,91909197367# or +13462487799\,91909197367#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 919 0919 7367\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/aeu6vPmQF URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AUGUST-2021-SECOND-TUES_Facebook-event-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210608T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210602T203025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T203110Z UID:2017-1623178800-1623184200@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom! DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to feature poets Indigo Moor and Jennifer K. Sweeney for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday June 8\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm (https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94454258218). Open mic (3 mins each poet\, maximum 10 poets) following the featured poets. \nJoin reading: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94454258218 \nOpen mic following featured readers. To sign up:  https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nJennifer K. Sweeney \nJennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently Foxlogic\, Fireweed\, winner of the Backwaters Prize from Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska. Her other collections are Little Spells (New Issues Press\, 2015)\, How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia Press)\, and Salt Memory (Main Street Rag). She is the recipient of many awards\, including the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, the Perugia Press Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize.  She teaches poetry workshops at the University of Redlands in California\, and is known for a decade-long practice of private instruction and manuscript critique. \nFoxlogic\, Fireweed can be purchased from the University of Nebraska Press\, linked from Jennifer’s website: https://www.jenniferksweeney.com/ \nAbout FOXLOGIC\, FIREWEED \n“Foxlogic\, Fireweed is a torn map of a state where all words are proximate to mystery. Venturing into terra incognita\, into territory that might be anima mundi\, maybe\, reader\, you think you know the lineaments\, but they are altered. Altared. Yes\, to dream space\, but wilder\, wider—this metal into bird\, stone into air\, mother into vulpine. Sweeney is breathing strangeness into a small body of words\, and the expanses open exponentially.”—Marsha de la O \n​“The logic of Foxlogic\, Fireweed is human and humane; it’s the logic of a penetrative tenderness and an embodiment always on the verge of dispersing into fox\, or deer\, or rain. . . . These are not bandwagon poems. They don’t mug for the camera. Rather\, they enact a love ‘sourced in loneliness’ where ‘with our little keys of witness’ we find each other—the very definition of the lyric poem.”—Diane Seuss \n\nIndigo Moor \nIndigo Moor is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento. His fourth book of poetry\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. Indigo is an adjunct professor at Dominican University and visiting faculty for Dominican’s MFA program\, teaching poetry and short fiction. \nIndigo is a former faculty member at the Stonecoast MFA Program\, where he graduated in 2012 with an MFA in poetry\, fiction\, and scriptwriting. He’s a playwright as well: his full-length stageplay\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award\, and the subsequent screenplay has been optioned for a full-length film. \nIndigo is a Cave Canem fellow\, former resident artist at 916 ink\, and a graduate member of the Artist’s Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. \nA 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Designer for computer companies. \nAbout EVERYBODY’S JONESIN’ FOR SOMETHING \n“Narratives don’t always belong to history’s victors\,’’ writes Indigo Moor. If this line gives you pause\, I strongly suggest you carry Moor’s brilliant book\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, home with you. In this dazzling book\, you will read just how closely this poet has been paying attention\, to us\, to his histories\, foreign and domestic\, to our mighty (and sometimes mighty confusing) nation. Jonesin’ is a verse flashlight to all the corners you thought no one was supposed to pay attention to\, line by beautifully crafted line\, truth by earned truth. You’ll reach the last line of the last poem\, and trust me\, that’s when the hunger for more will begin.”—Cornelius Eady\, author of The War Against the Obvious \n“Indigo Moor’s new collection shuttles between searing rebuke and hopeful anguish with accents of hard-edged humor. What I love most is the clarity of thought—the no-holds-barred\, no-punches-pulled sharpness of the language that carries the reader through each poem\, jonesin’ for the next. Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something invites you out of your complacency and fuels a restlessness that reminds you that you’re alive\, that this is no time for sleeping.”—Tim Seibles\, author of One Turn around the Sun URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-on-zoom-3/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210109T202423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210503T191806Z UID:1900-1621778400-1621785600@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the May edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, May 23rd at 2:00 P. M.  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center\, this time we’ll be on ZOOM. Join us\, too\, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! \nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85841157090 \nClick here to download the PDF flyer. \n\nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full-blooded Pocho\, Spanglish-speaking poeta who has been an active part of la Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years.  He was a founding member of outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long-running monthly Chicanx/Latinx reading series “Speaking Axolotl” which happens the 3rd Thursday of every month in el Zoom mundo.  Josiah’s book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos is being released  this April from Black Freighter Press. \nWhether sharing stages with legendary beat poets or your favorite Hip Hop emcees\, Andru Defeye’s unorthodox writing and performance style has made him a fixture behing microphones around the country.  2020 saw the release of his critically acclaimed Frequency album\, followed shortly after by his crowning as the youngest Poet Laureate in California capitol history.  From Sacramento to Staten Island and SXSW\,  Andru served as the Director of Communications for Sol Collective from 2009-2020.  In 2014 Defeye founded Zero Forbidden Goals\, a support system for creatives dedicated to innovating arts equity\, experiences\, and education.  ZFG’s guerilla art activations including National Guerilla Poetry Month\, Chainlink Poetry\, and The Intersection have been covered and recreated around the globe. \nAngela Drew is a mother\, dancer\, poet\, and spoken word performer who has loved the rhythm of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, CA\, she began writing at age eight and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. Thus\, her lifelong love affair with storytelling began. Angela has performed at various venues throughout Modesto\, Sacramento and Bay Areas\, including Modesto Junior College\, Modesto’s inaugural “Ill List Poetry Slam” at the State Theater\, the Gallo Center for the Arts\, in a Sankofa Community Theater production of The Journey—The African American Experience\, and the Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts\, Turlock and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s poetry event “Words Worth Speaking\,” to name a few. Angela’s spoken word piece\, “BWE: The Black Woman Experience” was recently featured at the 2020 NAACP Modesto/Stanislaus Virtual Black Graduates Recognition Ceremony and her poetry was included in COLLISION VI\, the February 2020 exhibit at the Mistlin Gallery which featured poet-photographer collaborations. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-5-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/May2021Carnegie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210503T193549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210503T193619Z UID:2002-1620759600-1620765000@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to feature poets Lelania Fowler and Salvatore Salerno for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday May 11\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm (https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92855890148) and sign up for open mic (3 mins each poet\, maximum 10 poets) following the featured poets. \nZoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92855890148 \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nLelania Fowler \nBorn and reared on the Eastside of Santa Barbara\, California\, Lelania Fowler experienced a Chicano/Hippie hybrid childhood. Later as a homeless teen\, she bounced between Long Beach\, Hollywood\, and her hometown of Santa Barbara before relocating to Sacramento. In the late 1980s\, she became part of a thriving music and arts scene and she began songwriting for local musicians.She writes about PTSD\, sexual violence\, California nature themes\, and is a mental health activist.Her poetry has most recently been published in Quiet Rooms\, a global anthology published by Cold River Press. Under a Milk Glass Moon is her first collection of poetry. \nAbout Under a Milk Glass Moon: \n“An excellent debut collection of poetry. Lelania’s long strophic lines and sparkler-like images propel these excursions into another realm. The work is not lyrical or narrative but cuts a lovely landscape between these genres. Refreshing to read and re-read.”  –D.R. Wagner \n“Lelania Fowler’s Under A Milk Glass Moon is\, I am convinced\, a collection of hymns to the Hindu goddess Kali\, Mother of All\, adorned in her necklace of human heads. There is a female energy in this writing to which I\, as a male\, have been blind and deaf\, a feminine language in which I am not fluent. Even so\, the poems themselves contain keys to help me unlock doors I\nnever knew existed.” —Robert Lee Haycock \n  \nSalvatore Salerno \nSalvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from University of North Carolina\, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He is retired from teaching English and Drama at Grace Davis High School. More than 120 of his poems have been published in numerous periodicals. His latest poetry book is Hello\, Posterity. He has also independently published volumes of nonfiction\, plays\, and short stories. \nSalvatore is a board member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, and he is also the president of the Stanislaus Audubon Society. He is the current poet laureate of Modesto. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-5-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/May2021SecondTuesday.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210312T222055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210413T185937Z UID:1949-1619359200-1619366400@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Annual Benefit Gala DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE! \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will hold its benefit on Sunday\, April 25th\, from 2-4 pm\, on Zoom. There will be music\, there will be poetry\, and while we still won’t be able to be in person\, we will share the amazing camaraderie of our poetry community and seriously rejoice in that! \nTo buy tickets\, please go to most2021.eventbrite.com. If you would like to support our gala fundraising effort\, please visit our Fundly page. \nOur featured poets for the event will be longtime MoSt supporters Lee Herrick and Indigo Moor. To download a copy of the flyer\, please click here. \n\nLee Herrick is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower\, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor of the anthology The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books). His poems appear widely in literary magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies such as HERE: Poems for the Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice\, with an introduction by Common; One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form; and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. His prose has appeared in Dear America: Letters of Hope\, Habitat\, Defiance\, and Democracy\, and elsewhere. He served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. Born in Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months\, he teaches at Fresno City College\, where he co-founded the forthcoming Social Justice and Cultural Center\, and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University. \nIndigo Moor is a multi-genre\, award-winning writer and teacher. His second book of poetry\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won the Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first book\, Tap-Root\, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. His stageplay\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award. Indigo is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program—where he studied poetry\, fiction\, and scriptwriting—and a graduate member of the Artist’s Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. A musician and photographer\, Indigo’s collaborations include the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Festival\, the Livermore Ekphrastic Project\, and the Davis Jazz Arts Festival. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/annual-benefit-gala-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021GalaPoster_Large.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210330T051626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210330T051931Z UID:1976-1618340400-1618345800@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom! DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Gillian Wegener are pleased to welcome Sixteen Rivers Press poets Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday April 13\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94208575176 and sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets. \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\n\nStella Beratlis grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her first collection of poems\, Alkali Sink\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2015 and was a nominee for the Northern California Book Awards in poetry. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals\, including Harbor Review\, Penumbra\, Song of the San Joaquin\, In-Posse Review\, and California Quarterly\, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets\, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press\, 2011) and served as the poet laureate of Modesto from 2016 to 2020. Beratlis lives and works as a librarian in Modesto. \nAbout Dust Bowl Venus: \nWith tenderness\, wit\, and humor\, Dust Bowl Venus explores the fragility of love\, good health\, and the Earth. Rooted not just in the city of Modesto but also in the music\, legends\, and community of the Central Valley\, these poems brilliantly reflect a struggle to find beauty in the contradictions of our contemporary lives. Amazingly thoughtful and musical\, these are poems we should all read. —Judy Halebsky\, author of Spring and a Thousand Years and Sky=Empty \n“The poems in Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus ring with the clarity of a shovel strike against stone\, each line cracking against the next\, igniting spark after glorious spark. And yet\, like the seasonal lake bed on which Modesto sits\, like the many hands ‘making mud out of dry soil\,’ every poem aches toward tenderness. In one poem\, Beratlis asks ‘What grows here?’ before revealing the bounty—heirloom tomatoes\, holy basil\, kindness—that can be coaxed from this ‘city of drought.’ But darker things grow here\, too: a tumor ‘the consistency of a potato\,’ fear\, terror that ‘builds cell by sticky cell.’ Here\, to grow\, and to love\, is to risk vulnerability. These’“bone-and-ligament / narratives’ of grief and yearning\, illness and healing\, perseverance and resistance\, beat with so much heart in this fiercely beautiful book.”  —Erin Rodoni\, author of Body\, in Good Light and A Landscape for Loss \n“Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus animates California’s Central Valley as a postmodern Prometheus\, an eco-sapient Frankenstein with whom we wrangle\, wrestle\, and fall madly in love. With sass and grit and grace\, Beratlis’s craft is brilliant in its imagistic associations that jolt and jump cut in powers of ten. These poems stir us with the urgency of the Anthropocene and form a ‘mycorrhizal web’ that connects us to the mantle of deep time.”  —Rosa Lane\, author of Chouteau’s Chalk and Tiller North \n\n\nDane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag)\, and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword\, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii. Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark Father\, How Therapists Dance\, The Jeweled Net of Indra\, and What a Father Dreams. Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich\, Tony Hoagland\, the Atlanta Review\, Caesura\, and been nominated for a Pushcart. His work appears in The SUN\, the Hudson Review\, TriQuarterly\, Poetry Flash\, Catamaran\, Miramar\, Rattle\, Sycamore Review\, and Pedestal Magazine\, among others. You can read more about Dane’s work at his blog: https://danecervine.typepad.com/ \nAbout The World Is God’s Language: \n“Dane Cervine’s new book\, The World Is God’s Language\, is a raft for troubled souls\, a balm for aching hearts\, and a tree of koan-like wisdom nuggets to be squirreled away and returned to again and again. These prose poems often address loss and difficulties but with a lightness of touch that emphasizes the spiritual lessons they can embody. . . . Dane Cervine steadies us with his attention to each word\, his deceptive simplicity of language\, and his calibrated spirituality—which outlines mysteries\, rather than attempting to fill them in. These remarkable poems are Rumi-like pearls.”\n—David Sullivan\, author of Seed Shell Ash \n“Dane Cervine’s poems cast their attention on the everyday—his father’s slippers\, an orange cat\, the last biscuit in a box—and find the extraordinary in what’s in front of all of us. Even when the poems take place in distant locales\, Cervine makes magic with simplicity. Hand in hand\, he takes his readers to the edge\, and willingly\, we jump with him.”\n—Patrice Vecchione\, author of My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-4-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210228T193424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T193424Z UID:1935-1615316400-1615321800@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom! DESCRIPTION:The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Cathryn Shea for Second Tuesday Poetry on Tuesday\, March 9\, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96055243749 \nOpen Mic signup: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday \n\nIris Jamahl Dunkle writes and lives in Northern California.  An award-winning literary biographer\, essayist\, and poet\, her academic and creative work challenges the western myth of progress by examining the devastating impact that agriculture and overpopulation have had\, and continue to have\, on the North American West. Taking an ecofeminist bent\, her writing also challenges the American West’s androcentric recorded history by researching the lives of women. As Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, she witnessed first-hand the devastating 2017 wildfires. These fires were the catalyst for her latest collection of poetry West : Fire : Archive and her investigation of her family’s migration to California during the Dust Bowl. Twitter: @irjohnso \nCathryn Shea’s poetry has been published in New Orleans Review\, Typishly\, After the Pause\, burntdistrict\, Permafrost\, Tar River Poetry\, and elsewhere; she has also been shortlisted or selected for a variety of poetry prizes\, including winning the Marjorie J. WIlson Award\, judged by Charles Simic. She’s the author of four chapbooks and her first full-length collection\, Genealogy Lesson for the Laity\, was just published in September 2020 by Unsolicited Press of Portland\, Oregon. Poet Thomas Centolella author of Almost Human (Tupelo Press\, winner of the Dorset Prize)\,Terra Firma\, Lights & Mysteries\, and Views from along the Middle Way  (Copper Canyon)\, notes the following about Cathryn’s work: “Focused chiefly on the domestic life\, with all its “important confusion\,” but also ranging into the transpersonal\, Shea holds a particular regard for subjects that have vanished or are on the verge of vanishing\, and does her best to rescue them with her appealingly quirky style\, sometimes comic\, sometimes melancholy\, and always vested with affection.”  Follow Cathryn on Twitter: @cathy_shea. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-3-3021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/3-2021-Second-Tuesday-Header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T212717 CREATED:20210109T202257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210111T001157Z UID:1898-1613916000-1613923200@www.mostpoetry.org SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series DESCRIPTION:Download the PDF Flyer here! \nPlease join us for the February edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday\, February 21st at 2:00 P.M.\, featuring local poets Ed Bearden and Cleo Griffith.  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center\, this time we’ll be on ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83974391144 \nOpen Mic Time follows\, including poems from the New Year’s Poetry Challenge. \nFree and open to the public. Join us in celebrating the written and spoken word! \n\nEd Bearden has been published in Penumbra\, Quercus Review\, In The Grove and the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets.  He is the recipient of the 2007 Award in Literary Arts presented by the Stanislaus Arts Council.  His poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations.  He was the 2008-2012 Poet Laureate for the City of Modesto.  His work is scheduled to appear later this year in Evening Street Review. \nCleo Griffith was Chair of the Editorial Board of Song of the San Joaquin for its first twelve years and remains on the Board in its 17th year.  She is vice-president of the Modesto branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Widely published\, she lives in Salida\, California with her cats Amber and Neil. URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-2-2021/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Feb2021CarnegieFlyer_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR