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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday with Eliot Schain & Salvatore Salerno
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Modesto Poet Laureate Emeritus Salvatore Salerno with Sixteen Rivers Press poet Eliot Schain  \nDate: Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \n  \nELIOT SCHAIN\nEliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Santa Monica Review\, and Miramar\, among others\, as well as in a number of anthologies\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed.  His book\, The Distant Sound\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2020.  Earlier books include American Romance and Westering Angels\, both from Zeitgeist Press.  \nSelections from The Distant Sound have been recorded and released as a digital album in collaboration with guitarist Harrison Flynn\, available on Apple Music and Spotify.  A newer collaboration Drive\, They Said\, also with Harrison Flynn\, is available as well.  Schain has served as program director for The Poetry Society of America\, taught high school\, and currently works as a psychotherapist in Berkeley\, California\, where he lives with his wife\, Mary D’Elia.  \nABOUT THE DISTANT SOUND\nThe Distant Sound is a prismatic meditation on what it means to be human\, especially when the body and mind seek their own paths to heaven. The poems employ the long Whitmanian breath and are often narrative\, but with mysterious syntax whose goal is to bypass reason and activate the heart. \n  \nSALVATORE SALERNO \n  \nSalvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He has worked as a playwright and poet in the North Carolina Visiting Artist Program. After retiring from teaching English at Davis High School\, Salvatore became a founding member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. He was the Poet Laureate of Modesto from 2020-24. His sixth book of poetry is After Thoughts. \n 
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LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of the New Sun
DESCRIPTION:THE ANTIDOTE IS POETRY. COME TO POETRY. \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring members of Sacramento-based writing group Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of the New Sun:  Zheyla Henriksen\, Paul Aponte\, Janet Rodriguez\, JoAnn Anglin\, Marco Contreras\, and Lorena Rodriguez. \nDate: Tuesday\, April 14\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener.  \nZheyla Henriksen is an Ecuadorian poet\, researcher\, artist\, and retired college & university teacher including at UC Davis where she received her PHD in Latin American and Spanish Literature.  She has been awarded several times including in 2004 when she received La Medalla de Oro al Merito Cultural in Cuenca Ecuador.  Zheyla was included in the Who’s Who of Distinguished Professionals\, and in History & Anthology of Ecuadorian Literature (2023). \nPaul Aponte is a Chicano Poet\,co-coordinator of Escritores Del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun\, and member of Círculo De Poetas & Writers. He has been published in the Tecolote Press anthology Poetry In Flight\, Tule Review 2024\, in the anthology Soñadores – We Came To Dream\, in the Los Angeles Review Volume 20 – Fall 2016\, and in Cold River Press Voices 2022-2025.  His colorful book of poetry DEL CACTUS is available through Prickly Pear Press and other sources. \nJanet Rodriguez is an author\, teacher\, editor\, and the author of Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations (Prickly Pear Publishing\, 2022)\, a family memoir. Her short story\, “The Key in the Tignanello Bag” was recently published in the regional anthology\, Sacramento Noir\, edited by John Freeman. Her work has also been featured in Hobart\, Pangyrus\, Eclectica\, The Rumpus\, Cloud Women’s Quarterly\, American River Review\, and Calaveras Station. Her short stories\, essays\, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world.  \nJoAnn Anglin is a leading member of Escritores Del Nuevo Sol and has been a teaching poet in the schools\, including at Shriners Children’s Hospital\, and at New Folsom Prison. Her chapbooks include Words Like Knives\, Like Feathers and Heat\, and her poems have been published in Tule Review\, Sable & Quill\, Sacramento Voices\, Rattlesnake Review\, The Pagan Muse\, 100 Poems about Sacramento\, Acorn\, and Cosumnes River Journal. In 2012\, JoAnn received an Arts Program Award from the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento City Council and in 2024 she was honored by the California Senate for her contributions as a poet and leader to the community. \nMarco Contreras is from Stockton and currently resides in Sacramento. He has been published in UCLA’s Daily Bruin and La Gente De Aztlan magazine. He also has contributions in several anthologies\, including his latest about his trip to the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. \nLorena Rodriguez has roots in the Andes\, born and raised in a land where the cultivation of potatoes and corn is a way of life. A multidisciplinary artist\, Lorena uses performance and theater as a tool for activism\, community building\, and healing. She is a writer\, performer\, fermenter\, dancer\, and textile artist\, and through her work\, she shares practical actions for health and well-being while inspiring the reimagining of systems that address collective needs and foster healing.  \n  \nHISTORY OF LOS ESCRITORES DEL NUEVO SOL  \n \nLos Escritores del Nuevo Sol emerged from a literary program of La Raza Galería Posada (LRGP)\, the Sacramento Chicano/Native American arts center founded in 1972. Our roots can be followed to an initial poetry event organized by the Royal Chicano Air Force and other groups. That event in 1978 was called “One More Canto”. It was held at the Reno Club\, a downtown neighborhood bar and dance club. This idea of poetry for the community grew and future poetry\, song and performance art events continued. LRGP took sponsorship of the Canto Series well into the 1980’s and 1990’s with those events occurring at La Raza Galería Posada\, Luna’s Café\, the Benny Barrios Studio and the Odd Fellows Hall. \nIn the 1990’s LRGP board members Arturo Mantecón and Francisco X. Alarcón organized a Floricanto series featuring Latino poets. Seeing favorable community interest\, they started a writers’ workshop\, Taller Literario. The Taller philosophy was to foster\, preserve\, and present the best of Chicano/Latino and native American writing. The first meetings attracted about a dozen local writers. Alarcón and Mantecón drew on their experience in publishing and working with writing groups to guide this group to be given recognition and to be established in October of 1993. \nThe Taller became an essential part of La Raza Galería Posada readings and became connected with other significant cultural events – Day of the Dead\, Cinco de Mayo\, exhibition openings\, etc.In time\, events were added such as the Valentine’s Day and the all-Spanish readings. \nEventually the group adopted a new name suggested by Graciela Brauer Ramírez: Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun. This recognized the 2012 coming of El Sexto Sol\, the dawning of a new world consciousness based on the Mesoamerican worldview. \nAs the years passed\, Los Escritores became a known part of the Sacramento literary community. In 2002\, José Montoya\, a member of Los Escritores\, was appointed Sacramento’s Poet Laureate. Los Escritores participated in his activities resulting in more visibility. In 2020’s\, two additional members were named Poet Laureate – Lara Gularte (El Dorado County) and Nancy González St. Clair (Lodi\, CA) also contributing to more recognition and visibility for Escritores del Nuevo Sol. \nWith the publication of our 2004 anthology\, Voices of the new Sun\, Poems and Stories / Voces del Nuevo Sol\, Cantos y Cuentos\, the group’s written work took tangible form. The 25th Anniversary anthology was published in 2017\, and in 2025 the anthology Then and Now came to cheer the past and present.  \nWhile the circle has grown\, it also acknowledges the loss of loved ones who were a part of its start: Phil Goldvarg\, José Montoya\, Helen and Esteban Villa\, Luz María Gama\, Max Schwartz\, Sam Ríos\, Jean y Winn Starr\, and Escritores co-founder Francisco X. Alarcón. We remember them well.
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LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with featured poets Kathy Pon and Chris Olander
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Chris Olander\, performance poet & poet laureate Nevada County (2017-2019) and Central Valley poet/farmer/educator Kathy Pon.  \nDate: Tuesday\, May 12\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST;  doors at 6:30 PM\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (2-3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener. Event is free and open to the public; refreshments and books available for purchase at Bookish.  \nKathy Pon\nKathy Pon earned a doctorate in education\, but in retirement returned to her life-long passion for reading and writing poetry. Her husband is a third-generation farmer\, and they live in the middle of a Central California almond orchard with their two dogs. She is a member of two monthly poetry groups\, is an avid pickleball player\, and enjoys hiking and swimming. Her work has been published in Passengers Journal\, Canary\, Rock Paper Poem\, Wild Roof Journal\, The Closed Eye Open\, The Gilded Weathervane\, Rockvale Review\, and in other places including the anthology\, Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press). She recently received honorable mention for the Bearing Witness Contest (Slingo Creek). Her chapbook\, Orchard Language (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2025. You can find her at kathleenpon@gmail.com.  \nChris Olander\nChris Olander\, poet\, performer\, teacher and bio-educator with California Poets in the Schools (CPITS) since 1984\, blends performance techniques with spoken word to create an Action Art Poetry: musical image phrasing to dramatize relative experiences—a poetry arising from oral and bardic traditions.   \nChris is the author of 3 full-length collections including this year’s Who Are We\, Cold River Press as well as four chapbooks and 8 CDs. His work is included in the anthology Silent Motif: Conference of Poets.  Chris was Nevada County’s poet laureate from 2017-2019 and for over 25 years was an organizer and featured reader in the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival\, sponsored by Poetry Flash and U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass.  \nHe was the Artistic Director for the Nevada County Poetry Series in Grass Valley from 2000-2013\, the Artistic Director for Poets Playhouse Series in Nevada City for 10 years\, and the poet coach for Poetry Out Loud in Nevada\, Placer\, Sacramento and El Dorado Counties. In 2008\, his student Roshawnda Bettencourt won the CA statewide POL championship\, with numerous other Nevada County POL winners taking 2nd and 3rd place in that competition through the years. 
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LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Merced  poets Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco. \nDate: Tuesday\, July 14\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PM\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener. Event is free; refreshments and books available for purchase at Bookish! \n\nMAI-LINH HONG  \nMai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American refugee poet and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection\, Continental Drift\, won the 2025 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in July 2026. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Waxwing\, Ploughshares\, Copper Nickel\, Wildness\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Maine Review\, and elsewhere. She publishes essays on Asian American and refugee literature in scholarly journals and anthologies. A lifelong crafter\, she is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making\, Radical Care\, and Racial Justice (University of California Press\, 2021). She teaches literature at the University of California\, Merced. \n  \nELIZABETH MCMUNN-TETANGCO \nElizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and co-edits One Sentence Poems and First Frost. She also works as a librarian at UC Merced. Her work has appeared in many online and print journals\, and her most recent book\, Salt Shaker Girls\, is available through Cuttlefish Books. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026july14/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry presents Poems That Found Us Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Poems That Found Us\nAn Open Mic Reading \nWhat poem has stayed with you? What lines do you return to again and again? \nJoin us for an evening where readers share poems by other poets—words that have meant something\, sparked something\, changed something. Each reader brings one poem– one voice and 3-4 minutes of space to read the poem. \nWhether you’re a longtime poetry lover or curious about the form\, whether you’ve found your poem already or you’re still looking\, you’re welcome to joins us. \nEvent free; books and refreshments available for purchase. \nAugust 11\, 2026 | 7:00 PM\nBookish Modesto
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Caleb Nichols and Amanda Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols and San Francisco-based teacher and workshop leader  Amanda  Moore\, author of the 2020 National Poetry Series-winning collection Requeening. \n \nDate: Tuesday\, November 10\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PM\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nAdmission free. Refreshments\, books\, and merch available for purchase. Open mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nCALEB NICHOLS\nCaleb Nichols is the first queer poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County California. Their poems have appeared in the New England Review\, Poetry Wales\, and many other places on both sides of the Atlantic. Caleb is the author of Lithic: A Hyperballad\, winner of the 2024 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize and the editor of You & i Are Earth: Poems of the Queer Pastoral\, published by 14 Poems (forthcoming in 2027). Caleb holds a PhD from Bangor University in North Wales and teaches at Cal Poly State University\, San Luis Obispo. More at https://calebnicholsis.gay. \nABOUT LITHIC: A HYPERBALLAD\nLithic: A Hyperballad (2026\, Harbor Editions Laureate Prize Winner) brings together a sequence of poems and a lyric essay that traverses memory\, gender\, landscape\, and language—excavating a self shaped by place\, queerness\, ecological disquiet\, and artistic lineage. As a work of queer ecopoetics rooted in both lyric and experimental inquiry\, Lithic interrogates language\, and nature\, and digs deep to excavate meaning. Alongside the book\, Nichols is releasing a spoken word collection called Stone Age Is Now: Poems From Lithic\, on US label Royal Oakie. Across twelve tracks Nichols interpolates poems from Lithic: A Hyperballad with tracks from Stone Age Is Back\, bringing new depth to his indie-rock and alt-folk compositions.  \nCaleb Nichols’ formally restless and inventive poems are “equal parts sex and salvation\,” filled with queer desire and bitter sweet elegy for the planet. Nichols searches for an opening through layers of stone into the mutability of awareness\, asking not only how we survive but how we are survived. Inspired by and in dialog with the work of many other writers and musicians\, Lithic pulls us along into its flow—a cloud-rich and penny-poor “catalog / of wants / a life spent / gathering.” From such a life and despite the world’s violences\, the music of these poems rises as a resolute hallelujah.”  — Mira Rosenthal\, author of Territorial  (Pitt Poetry Selection)  \nWhat if sound itself is narrative? The sound of the Welsh language\, the sound of the river\, the remixed sounds of the musics that haunt and bedrock this book\, the sounds that are the matter of our lives and the sounds that are inside of us\, our perception. In this collection\, we’re asked to open ourselves “to listen to the hiss of cochlea coiling/ chambers unspooling releasing their crystalline sphinxes”. Caleb Nichols’ gift for orchestral and balsamic phrasing is like no-one else.  — Colin Herd\, author of Aquafaba (A Poetry Society Selection)  \nThis book is so fresh\, so musical and Björk-level playful you will want to dance and weep at the same time. These poems are physical events\, undeniable eruptions. Trees pen essays\, men become a “thicket of reciprocal moans\,” an image roots itself in the sky\, and the most alive thought is that which geysers forth from ambling and wending\, from two feet meeting the earth again and again. With sacred repetition\, dizzying queer desire\, and “ancient grief\,” Caleb Nichols shows us how to live in a larger reality\, one where a “cloud’s shadow” is in fact “more real than the actual cloud.” — Chen Chen\, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Suffered An Emergency  \nMy favorite poems help me realize I only thought I knew this world. Caleb Nichols gives this and so much more—their poetry has a profound human touch. “This dirt belongs in the grooves of my skin / and your clay and my clay are kin”. This is a collection of poems for the ages\, and I want everyone I know who moves through life with literature to get moving with Caleb Nichols! — CAConrad\, author of First Light \nAMANDA MOORE\nAmanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry\, Requeening\, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. It was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and featured in Oprah Magazine’s annual Favorite Things Issue. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets\, ZZYZVA\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting; her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers\, The Baltimore Review\, and Catapult; and her translations of Costa Rican poet Ana Istarú have been published or are forthcoming in Lunch Ticket and Poet Lore. \nPoetry editor at Bull City Press’s INCH and co-organizer of the Poetry World Series\, Amanda is a teacher\, workshop leader\, and woodworker who lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. \nABOUT REQUEENING\nEngaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive\, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family\, the home\, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess\, the sweetness and sting\, Requeening brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood\, an evolving relationship of care and tending\, responsibility and joy\, dependence and deep love. \nThe poems that anchor this collection don’t shy away from the inevitability of a hive’s collapse and consider the succession of “requeening” a hive as “a new heart ready to be fed and broken and fed again.” The collapse is both physical—there are poems of illness and recovery—and emotional\, as the mother-daughter relationship shifts\, the daughter becoming separate\, whole\, and poised to displace. The liminal spaces these poems traverse in human relationships is echoed in a range of poetic and hybrid form\, offering freedom and stricture as they contemplate the way we hold one another in love and grief. \nRequeening is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. \n“A rare feat for any book of poems\, let alone a debut\, in that the lines\, wrought with such deft precision and care\, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry…These poems care\, first and foremost\, for what they write of and through\, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.”   -Ocean Vuong \n“Moore’s debut collection is a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series\, and it’s clear why. Using imagery of the beehive and the matriarchal queen bee\, Moore contemplates childbirth\, motherhood\, and marriage. A quietly profound work about the inevitable cycles of life.”   -O\, the Oprah Magazine \n“Pinpointing pivotal moments\, Moore looks at the love and anger between mother and daughter\, as well as the way the daughter replaces the mother as the one who brings new life into the family. These highly descriptive poems evoke a dreamlike state\, one that is quick-moving and evocative\, temporarily erasing actual and imagined boundaries.” –Library Journal \n“In her outstanding debut collection\, Requeening\, Amanda Moore imaginatively parallels the life of a woman in her family with the life of the queen bee in the hive. These poems take us through the sleepless nights of early parenthood\, drunk with joy\, through illness and recovery\, through grief and fierce love. Often these poems evince a hard-earned dark humor. Just as she receives a cancer diagnosis\, she writes\, My 9th graders file into our room/ and I am at the whim of divine irony/…just as I have to teach a lesson/ on Odysseus’ journey to the Underworld. Always her images are precise and vivid\, her understanding cogent\, as when she compares mourning to Monet’s paintings: haystack\, haystack\, haystack…which is to say/ they are like this grief…/all the same but for the light. And when Moore describes the sand an Aunt collected from all over the world in a poem that ends\, what we kept/ and what we stole\, this past/ we’ve made from pilfered dust\, we feel she is speaking a truth about all of our lives.”   -Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026nov_st/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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