Second Tuesday

Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic following the reading! This month's featured poets are from awg.

Come join us at the Second Tuesday reading series at the Barkin' Dog Grill! This month, our poets are Jerry Fleming and Melchor Sagahun, and as always, you are invited to stay for the open mic after the reading. Also, we are giving away tickets to this year's Ill List Poetry Slam! But you have …

Continue reading

Our usual Second Tuesday reading is being held a week later -- same time, same place -- with Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and Alice Anderson. Come join us for a reading followed by our usual open mic!

Join us at the Barkin' Dog for the January edition of the Second Tuesday Reading Series. Our featured readers will wow and inspire us with their work, and our Most Excellent Open Mic will knock your socks off. Susan Cohen is the author of two poetry chapbooks and two full-length collections, including A Different Wakeful …

Continue reading

Due to Valentine's Day, our February edition of Second Tuesday will be held on Tuesday, February 21st!

Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin' Dog Grill in Modesto! This month's reading features our own Gillian Wegener reading from her new book This Sweet Haphazard, as well as her fellow Sixteen Rivers poet Erin Rodoni, author of Body, In Good Light.