Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-08-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for a great reading this Tuesday, August 8 at the Barkin’ Dog in downtown Modesto at 6:00. This month’s poets are Modesto’s own Gordon Preston and William O’Daly.
William O’Daly has translated eight books of poetry by Pablo Neruda, all published with Copper Canyon Press. He’ll publish his ninth book of Neruda’s poetry, Book of Twilight, with Copper Canyon in October, 2017. His collection of poems, Water Ways, was published in 2017, and his homage to Neruda, The Road to Isla Negra, in 2015, both by Folded Word Press.
Gordon Preston has appeared in Cutbank, Five Points, Miramar, Missouri Review, and Rattle. He is a founding member of MoSt, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. His newest publication is What Morning Brings, a mini-chapbook from Tiger’s Eye Press Infinities.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00
September’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on September 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Erica Goss and Ed Coletti.
Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court (2014, Pushpen Press) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2012, Finishing Line Press) Her latest poetry collection, Wild Place, won the 2016 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. Widely published, Erica was the host of Word to Word, a Show About Poetry, on KCAT Cable TV in Los Gatos, and wrote The Third Form, a column about video poetry, for Connotation Press. She is the co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls. Erica lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches classes in poetry and video.
Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline. Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015). Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.” He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-10-10 18:00 - 20:00
October’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on Tuesday, October 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Jim Beggs.
Andrena Zawinski was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA but has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home since 2000. Her latest collection of poetry is Landings. She has two previous collections: Something About (a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award) and Traveling in Reflected Light (a Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize). Her poetry has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. She is also Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.
Jim Beggs has only written perhaps seven poems, but he has written about a poet–his book on Henry Reed (“Naming of Parts”)–and he has set a dozen familiar poems to music or matched them to songs we all know and love.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-11-14 18:00 - 20:00
November’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on November 14 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Marisol Baca. Don’t forget to stay for our open mic after the reading!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2017-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
December’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on December 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are the Meter Maids. Don’t forget to stay for our open mic after the reading!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-01-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the January Barkin’ Dog reading on Jan. 9 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.
Chiyuma Elliott is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, visual culture, and intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Elliott’s first book of poems, California Winter League, was published by Unicorn Press in December of 2015. Her creative work has appeared in the African American Review, Callaloo, the Collagist, the Notre Dame Review, the PN Review, and other journals. She is the co-editor of several poetry chapbooks: African American Poetic Responses to Faulkner (2015 / U Press of Mississippi), Of Rivers ( 2016 / Southern Humanities Review), and an untitled ​group of poems inspired by the Gordon W. Bailey Collection (forthcoming). She is currently at work on a poem cycle called Vigil, and a scholarly monograph about poetics in the New Negro movement.
Stella Beratlis grew up in a Greek-American family in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Quercus Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin,In Posse Review, California Quarterly, and other journals, as well as in the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets(Quercus Review Press, 2011). Beratlis is a librarian in Modesto, where she lives with her daughter. Alkali Sink is her first collection of poems.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-02-13 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the February Barkin’ Dog reading on Feb. 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers, including Tina Curiel Allen, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-03-13 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the March Barkin’ Dog reading on March 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers, Jennifer Fellguth and Salvatore Salerno, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-04-10 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the April Barkin’ Dog reading on April 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have three great featured readers, Connie Post, Kevin Gunn, and Cleo Griffith, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-05-08 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the May Barkin’ Dog reading on May 8 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We have two great featured readers, Beth Spencer and Lynne Knight, and our most excellent open mic to look forward to.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00
The 9th Anniversary edition of the Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is happening on June 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog!
Our featured readers are the Modesto branch of the National League of America Pen Women. Founded in 1936, the original five charter members of this branch were Alice Scott Carlson, Grace M. Davis, Irene Childrey Hoch, Blanche Willis Allen, and Helen Hope Page.
The tradition continues with a host of talented writers and artists, including those reading at the Barkin’ Dog on June 12th: Nancy Haskett, Lynn Hansen, ann w. bailey, Louise Kantro, Roberta Bearden, Jill Adler, Cleo Griffith, Pat Egenberger, and Linda Prather.

Join us for a great evening of poetry and community!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-07-10 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of writing inspired by the poetry of Thomas Merton, hosted by Ed Bearden. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
About the Thomas Merton Poetry Group: In February of 2016 Deacon George Cano of St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church, convened the Thomas Merton poetry group. It was began to provide more than chit-chat, but rather to encourage spiritual growth. Poetry, as another way to pray. Meeting twice a month, the group wrote and published Poetic Prayer: writing from the soul. Meditation
techniques from Buddhist traditions or centering prayer were used to access the poetic well. The group consists of Deacon George Cano, Ed Bearden, Roberta Bearden, Jeanette Comegys, Stephanie Gilmer, Sarah B. Hartmann, Judy Miller, Linda Marie Prather and Cheryl Russel Pogue. Others would be welcome to join the writing and fellowship.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-08-14 18:00 - 20:00
The Second Tuesday Poetry Reading is as late in the month as it can get, so be sure to mark your calendar for August 14 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill.
This month’s featured readers are DW Schmidt and Kathleen Winter, and of course, our featured readers will be followed by an open mic, so bring a poem or two to share.
D.W. Schmidt has written much more prose than poetry. When he started writing poetry, he felt the poems happened accidentally, like they found him, which was probably the influence of the great imagist poets he has taught in his college classes for so long. Lately, he has allowed his poems to be more topical, personal, phrase-driven, and ultimately more intentional.
Kathleen Winter is the author of I will not kick my friends (2018), which won the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Agni, New Statesman, New Republic and Yale Review. She was granted fellowships by Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dobie Paisano Ranch, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House and Cill Rialaig Retreat.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-09-11 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 11 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Connie Post and Kevin Gunn. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-10-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 9 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Sheila Landre and Barbara West. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-11-13 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 13 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers Roy Mash and Rebecca Foust. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2018-12-11 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 11 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry by featured readers the Licensed Fools. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-01-08 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 8th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll have an evening of poetry with featured readers from America, We Call Your Name. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-02-12 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring the poetry of beloved local poets Virginia Dall, George Rogers, and Lee Nicholson, read by members of the MoSt poetry community.
An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-03-12 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on March 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured readers are Lee Herrick and Maw Shein Win.
An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-04-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on April 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring poets from the Sixteen Rivers poetry collective.
An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-05-14 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on May 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis.
An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
Poet and radio commentator Molly Fisk was chosen by the Academy of American Poets as one of the inaugural American Poet Laureate Fellows. She’s also received grants from the NEA and the CA Arts Council. Fisk is the author of The More Difficult Beauty, among other collections, and lives in Nevada City, CA.
Ingrid Keriotis‘ first book of poetry, It Started with the Wild Horses, is now available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems are also included in the anthology, More Than Soil, More Than Sky: the Modesto Poets. In writing, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” Ingrid lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and teaches writing to community college students.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-06-11 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on June 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Stella Beratlis and Gillian Wegener. Wegener has been running the Barkin’ Dog series for the past 10 years and is now handing the reins over to Beratlis, who will carry on with new energy and all her grace and verve and humor. And there will be cake!
An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
Stella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink and the poet laureate of Modesto. Her work has been published in California Quarterly, In Posse Review, hardpan, Song of the San Joaquin, Penumbra, and Quercus Review as well as the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She is a librarian at Modesto Junior College.
Gillian Wegener is the author of two collections of poetry, both from Sixteen Rivers Press, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (2008) and This Sweet Haphazard (2017). Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and is forthcoming from MockingHeart Review. Wegener is a co-founder of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto, and started this reading series in June of 2009.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-07-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 9th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
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Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-08-13 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on August 13th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto, featuring poets Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
Pos Moua is a Hmong-American writer, educator, and poet who lives in Merced with his wife and their five children. He is the author of the chapbook “Towards the World Where the Torches Are Burning” (Swan Scythe Press, 2001), the first published work from a Hmong American poet. He has published work in How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing, UC Davis Poetry Review, Sacramento’s “Poetry Now,” and National Poetry.” Pos Moua’s new book, Karst Mountains Will Bloom, was published by Blue Oak Press in April 2019.
Yu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Her poetry books & chapbooks were published by Another New Calligraphy, BOAAT Press, Dancing Girl Press, and University of Nebraska Press. Her new short story collection, Sex & Taipei City, is now out with Red Hen Press. She maintains a blog at www.yuhanchao.com about nursing school.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-09-10 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-10-15 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 15th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto with featured readers Paul Neuman and Amy Miller. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-11-12 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-12-10 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2020-01-14 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
