Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center

Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Kelly Cressio-Moeller & John Sibley Williams
2022-02-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
7 pm PST
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Kelly Cressio-Moeller
Kelly 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
John Sibley Williams
John 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.
