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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry On Saturday featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt & Mary Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, for a MoSt Poetry reading featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Mary Mackey on Saturday\, February 24\, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. PST.  An open mic will follow the featured poets\, and light refreshments will be available. This reading\, hosted by Gary Thomas\, is free and open to the public. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gatherer’s Alphabet (Gunpowder Press\, CA Poets Prize\, 2022)\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and a number of previous small press collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash. A new book\, Frangible Operas: Selected Uncollected is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com. \n  \nMary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, being swarmed by army ants\, and reading. She is the author of eight poetry collections\, including Sugar Zone\, winner of a PEN Award\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams\, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry\, Jane Hirshfield\, D. Nurkse\, Al Young\, Rafael Jesús González\, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty\, precision\, originality\, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion.  Recent honors and awards include: \n2023 City of Angels Women’s Film Festival Award Official Selection for Best Feature Screenplay for “The Stand In.” The screenplay is an adaptation of Mary Mackey’s novel of the same title\, published under her pen name “Kate Clemens.” \nNorthern California Book Reviews Award Finalist for “Creativity: Where Poems Begin\, Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in 2023. \nWinner of City of Angels Film Festival for Best Short Screenplay for “Time Piece “ 2022. \n“Lady Danger\,” Nominated for Best Feature-Length Screenplay\, City of Angels Womens Film Festival\, 2022. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-susan-kelly-dewitt-mary-mackey/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club - Information Desk by Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Book Club meets at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday\, February 17\, 2024 at BakeShop\, 11th Street in downtown Modesto to discuss Information Desk by Robyn Schiff. You can pick up a copy of the book at the Stanislaus County Library’s Modesto Branch. Here’s what the publisher\, Penguin Random House\, has to say: \n\n\n\nABOUT INFORMATION DESK\nNew York Times Book Review Edtitors’ Choice \n“Among the year’s highlights . . . groundbreaking\, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries\, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.” —Washington Post \n“An effluvial rush of memory\, desire\, data\, and metaphor . . . It’s bracing to encounter a mind so voracious\, so unapologetic in its intelligence.” —New York Review of Books \nA book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, from a writer whose work offers “something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world” (Dan Chiasson\, The New Yorker) \nRobyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk\, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history\, material\, and memory\, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum’s encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. \nNovelistic in its sweep\, frantically informative\, and deeply intimate in its private recollections\, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns\, including illusion\, deception\, self-deception\, complicity\, lecherous coworkers\, the composition of pigment\, the scattering of seeds\, ideas\, and capital\, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way\, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses—parasitic wasps—in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-information-desk-by-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:BakeShop\, 940 Eleventh Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:MoSt Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Angela Drew & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Tuesday\, February 13th\, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. PST for a poetry reading featuring Angela Drew and Linda Scheller at Prospect Theater Project’s Artist Lab\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto CA. Hosted by Gillian Wegener\, this free event will include an open mic. \nAngela Mason-Drew is a mother\, dancer\, poet\, spoken word performer and self-proclaimed linguistic artist who has loved the rhythm and sounds of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, CA\, she began writing at age 8 and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. Her lifelong love affair with storytelling began in the sandbox of her childhood playground and she has played with the magic of words ever since. Angela is a graduate of Holy Names University in Oakland\, CA\, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is a proud Bay Area native and shares stories from her current home in the Central Valley. To learn more about Angela and her word artistry\, visit her on Instagram @she_spits_fire Facebook @Angela Drew (Angela Mason) and online at www.elderberrywine.org. \n \nLinda Scheller is the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag Publishing Company). Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are published in numerous journals and anthologies including Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Poem\, Sugar House Review\, Slipstream\, and Colorado Review. Recent honors include Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations\, and her manuscript Laurels was a finalist for the 2023 Aryamati Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award. Ms. Scheller is a retired educator who volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio. For more information\, please go to her website\, lindascheller.com. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-second-tuesday-poetry-reading-featuring-angela-drew-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:12th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival with Maya Khosla
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Festival\nSaturday\, February 3\, 2024\n“Writing the Way Through Wild Spaces”\nWorkshop leader: Maya Khosla\, Wildlife Biologist\, Poet\, Filmmaker\nCarnegie Arts Center       250 N. Broadway        Turlock\, CA\n10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.\nDoors open at 9:30 a.m. — continental breakfast included\n$40 RSVP at https://poetryfestival12.eventbrite.com\n  \n\n \n\n\nMaya Khosla is a biologist and writer. As Sonoma County Poet Laureate (2018-2020)\, she brought Sonoma’s communities together to heal through gatherings\, field walks\, and shared writing after the recent wildfires. Her books include “All the Fires of Wind and Light” (Sixteen Rivers Press; 2020 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award)\, “Keel Bone” (Bear Star Press; Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize). She is the winner of the 2023 Fund for Wild Nature Grassroots Activist Award and co-winner of the Environmentalist of the Year Award from 2020 Sonoma County Conservation Council (SCCC). Her work has been featured in For the Wild\, her writing was part of the award-winning documentary films including “Village of Dust\, City of Water\,” about the water crises in rural India. \n\n\n\nScan to purchase your ticket\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/12th-annual-most-poetry-festival-with-maya-khosla/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Deadline to apply for Youth Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Young poets: Don’t forget to apply for the Youth Poet Laureate contest by January 27\, 2024. Open to poets ages 15-19 who live or attend school in Stanislaus County and who will reside in the area through the youth poet laureate term (June 1\, 2024 – May 31\, 2025). All details at the Youth Poet Laureate contest page. \nDeadline is 11:59 pm on Saturday\, January 27\, 2024.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-to-apply-for-youth-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Contests,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240113T140000
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SUMMARY:Painless Poetry for Teens: Learn about the Stanislaus Youth Poet Laureate Contest
DESCRIPTION:January 13\, 2024. Future Youth Poets Laureate\, Unite! In this first gathering\, learn about the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program and learn tips for completing the contest  application\, which is due Jan. 27.  Read on to find out about this monthly series.  \n\nPainless Poetry: Workshops for Aspiring Teen Poets/Spoken Word Performers  \nJoin Faith Delgado\, 2023-24 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate\, in a series of informal gatherings to explore the world of spoken word and performance poetry. Watch inspiring spoken word performances\, learn about and practice spoken word technique\, and socialize with fellow writers\, poets\, and performers. Light refreshments served. All events start at 2 pm and are held in the Turlock Library Makerspace. In partnership with the Stanislaus County Library.  \nJanuary 13\, 2024. Future Youth Poets Laureate\, Unite! In this first gathering\, learn about the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program and learn tips for completing the contest  application\, which is due Jan. 27.  \nFebruary 24\, 2024. Spoken Word: Learn from the Masters. Let’s view iconic spoken word performances and talk about what makes them so great.  \nMarch 16\, 2024. Spittin’ Bars: Spoken Word/Performance Strategies. How do you inhabit the space on stage when performing a piece? How about holding a microphone and reading from a page? Let’s share strategies and explore what might work for us.   \nApril 20\, 2024. Spittin’ Bars Part 2/Open Mic Performance. Show off what you’ve been working on all these months!  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/painless-poetry-for-teens-learn-about-the-stanislaus-youth-poet-laureate-contest/
LOCATION:Turlock Library\, 550 N. Minaret Ave\, Turlock\, 95382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Luke Johnson and Mariah Bosch
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Luke Johnson\, author of Quiver\, and Mariah Bosch\, Fresno State MFA graduate. Hosted by Stella Beratlis \nDate: Tuesday\, January 9\, 2024\nTime: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom–RSVP required. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqce6uqTwqHtFdKlW9fo8M7VcNJLdy8ref. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet): https://forms.gle/RnPGLFptHija15RU8 \n  \nLUKE JOHNSON \nLuke Johnson is the author of Quiver (Texas Review Press)\, a finalist for The Jake Adam York Prize\, The Levis Award\, The Vassar Miller Prize and the Brittingham. His second book A Slow Indwelling\, a call and response with the poet Megan Merchant\, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions Fall 2024. You can find more of his work at Kenyon Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Narrative Magazine\, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter at @Lukesrant or through email: writerswharfmb@gmail.com \n  \n\nAbout Quiver\n“Quiver is the most visceral\, haunting book of poems I have read in years. Johnson reimagines masculinity and is unafraid to unearth its dark elements\, as father\, son\, and witness to the brutality and beauty in and around us. He writes\, ‘Listen: When/I said boys have a storm inside\,/this itch that fills our teeth\, I/was sharing in secret. I meant/we have mothers who gift us ghosts\,/our heads upon a trigger.’ This searing debut is a world of its own\, built with fearlessness\, tenderness\, and grace. Take notice. Luke Johnson has arrived.” —Lee Herrick\, California Poet Laureate \n“In Quiver\, Luke Johnson’s unforgettable debut poetry collection\, he invokes The Old Testament\, its fires\, floods\, and prophecies—to reckon with ‘all the ways a child drowns\, like spiders trapped in spit.’ These are harrowing poems. Yet\, at the heart of Johnson’s unsparing gaze lies enormous compassion—for the ghosts that haunt him\, for the child self who carried ‘scars without witness.’ Quiver is a work of glorious complexity—brutal\, lyrical\, shot through with images that stop you in your tracks. But more than that\, these poems look deeply at the ways the sins of the father are visited on successive generations and move toward breaking the cycle.”  —Ellen Bass — Ellen Bass \n  \nMARIAH BOSCH\n \nMariah Bosch (she/they) is a queer Chicana poet and visual artist from Fresno\, CA. She is a graduate of Fresno State’s MFA program in poetry. Her work can be found on Poets.org\, Small Press Traffic\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, and elsewhere. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-luke-johnson-and-mariah-bosch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Youth Poet Laureate: Speak Your Silence poetry open mic
DESCRIPTION:Speak Your Silence is a reading on December 16\, 2023 at the Turlock Library in remembrance of Sandy Hook (Dec. 14 is the Sandy Hook Day of Remembrance). \n\nSpeak Your Silence\, a student-led campaign organized by Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith  Delgado\, is intended to address and combat all types of violence that occurs in the schools. Youth poets are invited to share their stories and/or experiences in the form of poetry\, slam poetry\, speeches\, spoken word\, etc. This can be about sexual or physical violence\, any kind of bullying\, and/or your experience of how the school handled it. work on the topic of school violence. For middle- and high-schoolers; original work please. \n\n\nFeel free to contact Faith at faithd@mostpoetry.org for any questions about the event!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/youth-poet-laureates-speak-your-silence-reading-dec-16-deadline-to-apply-dec/
LOCATION:Turlock Library\, 550 N. Minaret Ave\, Turlock\, 95382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Slam,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231214T200000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Member Open Mic on December 14
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry members are cordially invited to read at this special open mic poetry reading on Thursday\, December 14th at The Dragonfly Art for Life\, 1210 J Street in downtown Modesto\, CA. Free and open to the public\, the event starts at 6:00 p.m. If you haven’t yet become a MoSt member and would like to help support poetry in Stanislaus County\, please go to mostpoetry.org.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-member-open-mic-on-december-14/
LOCATION:The Dragonfly Art for Life\, 1210 J Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231114T203000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday featuring Melchor Sahagun & Tina Marie Curiel-Vega
DESCRIPTION:We’re super excited to invite everyone to November’s Second Tuesday reading at the Intermission in downtown Modesto. Not only do we get to experience poetry in an amazing new space in our community\, but also we celebrate Sorry I’m Late\, the first collection from Stockton poet Melchor Sahagun\, erstwhile and beloved Queen Bean Poetry Night host. Joining him as featured poet is author and activist Tina Marie Curiel-Vega\, cofounder of the existir collective whose most recent zine Trying to Fix Destiny just came out. Stay for the open mic following the featured readers.\n\nMELCHOR SAHAGUN – Melchor Sahagun is a human being from the human city of Stockton\, CA\, who has spent most of the last three decades writing\, singing\, joking\, rapping\, acting\, and otherwise participating in various human endeavors. \n\nHe’s spent his human years as a poet\, musician\, author\, comedian\, playwright \, performer\, and skateboarder; mentoring other humans in the written and performing arts\, coaching slam teams\, hosting events\, and advocating for the arts in the greater human community– a group he connects with through several forms of human interaction.\n\nThough he’s been writing poems for nearly thirty years\, Sorry I’m Late is his first collection. He apologizes for the wait.\n\nTINA MARIE CURIEL-VEGA – Tina Curiel is a Xicana and Boricua almost-native Central Valley poet and artivist currently living in Modesto\, California with her three cats and as many books and records as possible. Her poetry explores her family history\, dealings with incarceration and the criminal legal system\, activism\, addiction\, and hope.\n\nBoth authors will have copies of their pubs for sale. Hoping you can join us to bless these new books of poetry and share ALL the poetry love.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-featuring-melchor-sahagun-tina-marie-curiel-vega/
LOCATION:Intermission at the State Theater Modesto CA\, 1307 J Street\, Modesto\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:“The late W.S. Merwin might as well have been called Merlin\, for the seemingly magical changes of his work during his long career.  The poems in Present Company are like impressionist or even abstract paintings.  If you scan them quickly\, they will seem to be out of focus\, but if you read more slowly\, stopping and lingering\, your patience will be rewarded by their beauty.”
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-4/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Books
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231104T140000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Tama Brisbane and Linda Marie Prather
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry On Saturday Reading\nNovember 4\, 2023\n2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center\n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock CA\n\n\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On  Saturday in-person readings on November 4th at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Stockton Poet Laureate Emerita Tama L. Brisbane and Turlock poet Linda Marie Prather. An Open Mic will follow the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\nTama L. Brisbane:  From 2015-2023\, Tama has presented over 300 times\, including the inauguration of Stockton’s first Black mayor\, Michael Tubbs. Her debut Laureate project helped engineer the city’s 2015 return to All-American City status with an innovative 10-minute poem incorporating over two dozen multigenerational\, multiethnic voices. Her performance as Guest Poet at The King Jr. Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church led Martin Luther King III to say\, “your words matter.” She is the Executive Director of With Our Words\, and County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. As a Literary Arts Consultant\, she designs programs\, curricula and events for young people across the United States and around the world. \n“Mama T” is a published author\, a Susan B. Anthony Award Winner for Creative Arts\, a University of the Pacific Woman of Distinction\, a Black Women Organized for Political Action Honoree\, an Action on Behalf of Children Honoree\, a Charter Member of the Brave New Voices National Network\, and of the National Black Poet Laureates Group. She serves on several boards advocating for arts\, youth\, Black families and environmental stewardship. Her tireless work on behalf of young voices — particularly those of color and from marginalized communities — has been recognized by both houses of the California Legislature\, by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. \nTama stands in constant thanks to her Creator for her earthly assignment. She takes comfort and inspiration from two of her favorite quotes. The first is from Martin Luther King\, Jr.:  “The salvation of humanity lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”  The second is attributed to an Eastern proverb:  “If you sit on the bank of the river long enough\, you will see the body of your enemy float by.” \n \nLinda Marie Prather has been widely recognized\, winning honors in both poetry and visual art.  She has been featured in Stanislaus Connections and in KCBP and KQBM radio interviews.  She was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and was the recipient of the 2008 Pegasus Award from California Federation of Chaparral Poets.  Linda co-edits the poetry quarterly Song of the San Joaquin and is an Arts and Letters member\, National League of American Pen Women.  Her eighth book of poems\, New Walk & Old Dream\, was released August 2023. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Workshop at the Turlock Library with Faith Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Join Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado as she leads a workshop for teens on spoken word poetry and performance. In the Community Room at the Turlock Library\, 1-3 pm. For more info\, please contact Faith at faithd@mostpoetry.org or the Turlock Library: (209) 664-8100.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/spoken-word-workshop-at-the-turlock-library-with-faith-delgado/
LOCATION:Turlock Library\, 550 N. Minaret Ave\, Turlock\, 95382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Slam,Workshops,Youth Poet Laureate
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Out Loud - Informational Meetings on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Bring Poetry Out Loud to your school!\nPoetry Out Loud is a national poetry Recitation Contest for high\nschool students that starts at the school level with students\nmemorizing and reciting poems. School winners move on to the\ncounty contest run by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center in early\nFebruary 2024. The finalist there goes on to the state contest in\nSacramento in March\, 2024.\nPlease attend one of these informational Zoom meetings to find out\nmore: Wednesday\, October 25 at 2:45 and at 3:45. (Same meeting\,\ntwo different times for your convenience.)\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/i/87048923866?\npwd=TGxabEoOUiNDMzdLUTRYViBHYzZIZz09\nThis link can also be found at www.mostpoetry.org\, the website of\nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Contact us with any questions.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-out-loud-informational-meetings-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Poetry Out Loud,Youth Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231021T124500
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UID:2946-1697882400-1697892300@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Fall Poetry Workshop with Susan Rich
DESCRIPTION:Get your tickets for the great online workshop with poet Susan Rich. Tickets $20; + ticket fees; purchase through Eventbrite. https://mostfallworkshop.eventbrite.com \nSeattle poet Susan Rich is the author of six books of poetry; her work has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation\, PEN USA\, Peace Corps Writers\, and more. She teaches at Highline College and is co-founder and executive director of Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/susanrich/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065217
CREATED:20230919T180558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T175454Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Reading Series with Brynn Saito and Cristina Sandoval
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading with Brynn Saito and Cristina Sandoval.\n\nBrynn Saito’s third book of poems\, Under a Future Sky\, was published in August 2023 by Red Hen Press. A  2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow\, Brynn is the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award\,  and her poems have appeared in the New York Times and American Poetry Review. Brynn lives in the traditional homelands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples (aka\, Fresno\, CA) where she teaches in the MFA program at Fresno State. She’s co-editing with Brandon Shimoda an anthology of poetry written by descendants of the Japanese American / Nikkei incarceration\, forthcoming in 2025 from Haymarket Books.\n\nCristina Sandoval is a recent graduate of the Fresno State MFA program\, and a resident of Modesto\, CA.\n\nRegister here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdOupqTkvH9bNir_T5d69J9taVP3SkR4P\n\nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for the evening.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-reading-series-with-brynn-saito-and-cristina-sandoval/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065217
CREATED:20230930T212828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230930T212828Z
UID:2966-1696683600-1696690800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Feels Like All of It: A Sensory\, List-Inspired Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will present a free\, in-person workshop facilitated by Tina Marie Curiel-Vega 1:00-3:00 p.m.on Saturday\, October 7th at the Ceres Library. Please join us!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/feels-like-all-of-it-a-sensory-list-inspired-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:Ceres Library\, 2250 Magnolia Street\, Ceres\, 95307\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230924T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065217
CREATED:20230828T224524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T224655Z
UID:2941-1695560400-1695571200@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Poetry on the Spot at the Gallo Family Fun Festival
DESCRIPTION:FREE FOR EVERYONE! SUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24\, 2023 \n1 PM – 4 PM \nThe Gallo Center for the Arts presents its first annual Family Fun Festival—a community event that will take over the Gallo Center Plaza and the Modesto Rotary Music Garden with a host of FREE activities. We’ll be typing poems for anyone who wants one–but you can also enjoy music\, dancing\, chalk art\, lawn games\, exotic reptiles\, face painting\, balloon animals\, and more. Free; no ticket purchase required. \nFood trucks will be on site for those wishing to purchase hot dogs\, frozen yogurt\, and other treats.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-the-spot-at-the-gallo-family-fun-festival/
LOCATION:Gallo Center for the Arts\, Gallo Center Plaza\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Poetry on the Spot
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230923T170000
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SUMMARY:MoSt's 10th Anniversary Fundraiser w/ CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick & Stan Cty Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the afternoon of Saturday\, September 23\, 2023 for an afternoon of wine\, hors d’oeuvres\, and readings by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado. \nYour ticket supports poetry in Stanislaus County\, including monthly reading series in Modesto and Turlock; sets of poetry books for area schools; Poetry Out Loud; poetry readings at senior communities; free poetry workshops and poetry book discussions at the Modesto Library; the Youth Poet Laureate program; poetry on the spot at events across the county; annual workshops by noted poets from across California\, the Modesto Poetry Festival every February\, and much more! \nTICKET SALES END FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 15th AT MIDNIGHT.  $50 purchase through https://poetrygala2023.brownpapertickets.com/.  \nPlease email info@mostpoetry.org to request sliding scale price. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/10th-anniversary-fundraiser-with-california-poet-laureate-lee-herrick-stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-faith-delgago/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T200000
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CREATED:20230828T222927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T222927Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry  featuring Chloe Martinez and Emma Trelles
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, September 12\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link\nOpen mic signup; 3 mins per reader please. \nPlease join us this month as we feature poets Emma Trelles and Chloe Martinez on Zoom. Emma Trelles\, author of Tropicalia\, is the immediate past poet laureate for Santa Barbara\, a CantoMundo fellow and Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Chloe Martinez\, author of Ten Thousand Selves\, is a scholar and poet who also serves as associate director of programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College. Her poems and translations have been widely published and have received numerous awards and honors.  \nChloe Martinez\nChloe Martinez is a scholar of South Asian religions and a poet. She lives in Claremont\, CA with her husband and two daughters. She is the Associate Director of Programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College\, as well as Lecturer in CMC’s Department of Religious Studies.  \nShe is a graduate of Barnard College\, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow\, and received the MA/PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests include creative writing; religions of South Asia; medieval North Indian devotional movements; poetry and autobiography in South Asia; and South Asian American religious worlds. Her research has appeared in journals including The Medieval History Journal and South Asia​\, and has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\, AIIS\, and SSRC-Mellon Mays.  \nShe is also a graduate of Boston University’s Creative Writing MA and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, where she was a Holden Scholar. The author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works\, 2021) and chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press\, 2020)\, her poems and translations have appeared in Ploughshares\, POETRY\, The Common\, AGNI\, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere\, and have been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize\, as well as for Best New Poets and Best of the Net. Her translations have won the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and the Anne Frydman Prize. She is a visiting editor at Beloit Poetry Journal and the poetry editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. \nSee more at www.chloeAVmartinez.com \nAbout The Ten Thousand Selves \n \n“Martinez understands the power of story to transmute experience into knowledge\, and the power of poetry to question story’s power. Her scope is global\, her vision historical\, and her voice—by turns tender\, sardonic\, full of rage or humbled awe—is eloquently contemporary. Here is a book that presses back against reality. ‘Not a story\, not an image. It is a map.'” —Suzanne Buffam\, author of A Pillow Book  \n“…the selves in these beautifully wrought poems are wide-eyed in their wisdoms and whole-hearted in their songs. In poem after poem\, they show the myriad possibilities in our extraordinary and surprising lives.”  –Adrian Matejka\, author of Somebody Else Sold the World 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-chloe-martinez-and-emma-trelles/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230826T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230826T140000
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SUMMARY:Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Reading and Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate our finalists for the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate contest 2023-2024. Meet our finalists\, Janelle Yulo of Modesto and Zoe Byron of Oakdale\, and our Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado. With readings and refreshments. \nAt The Loft\, 3rd floor of the Carnegie Arts Center\, \nStanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program is a partnership between Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, Stanislaus County Library\, Stanislaus County Office of Education\, MJC’s School of Language Arts and Education\, and the Stanislaus Library Foundation.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-reading-and-reception/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230812T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230812T160000
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UID:2864-1691848800-1691856000@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Poetry on Saturday Reading featuring Connie Post and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday Reading\nAugust 12\, 2023  2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California)\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On \nSaturday readings in person on August 12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie \nArts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Livermore poet laureate\nemeritus Connie Post and Marin County poet laureate Francesca Bell \n(both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time after the \nfeatured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light\nrefreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConnie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California. Her \nwork has appeared in Calyx\, Comstock Review\, One\, Cold Mountain \nReview\, Slipstream\, Spillway\, River Styx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, \nValparaiso Poetry Review\, and Verse Daily. She has two full-length \nbooks from Glass Lyre Press\, entitled Floodwater and Prime Meridian.\nHer most recent book\, Between Twilight\, is from New York Quarterly \nbooks\, and she has a recent chapbook\, Broken Metronome\, about her\nbrother’s journey with Parkinson’s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain\, a finalist for the Washington \nState Book Award and the Julie Suk Award\, and What Small Sound\,\, and is\n\n\n\nthe translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here\, all from Red Hen\nPress. Her work appears in B O D Y\, ELLE\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, \nNew England Review\, North American Review\, Mid-American Review\, and \nRattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx\, the translation editor \nof Los Angeles Review\, and the poet laureate of Marin County. She lives \nwith her family in Novato\, California.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading-featuring-connie-post-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230808T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Molly Fisk & Ingrid Keriotis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a  poetry reading featuring Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis with an open mic to follow. \nRSVP with the link below. \n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Aug 8\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-yorzMjG9Nu0FHzh0Uy7TVpsE81x9PiAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-with-molly-fisk-ingrid-keriotis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230724T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230724T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065217
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SUMMARY:July Book Club: FELON by Reginald Dwayne Betts
DESCRIPTION:Please join at the Modesto Library to discuss Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Copies of the book are available at the check-out desk of the Modesto Library\, courtesy of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Facilitated by Tina Marie Curiel-Vega.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/july-book-club-felon-by-reginald-dwayne-betts/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230722T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230722T150000
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CREATED:20230625T022556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T172607Z
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SUMMARY:Free Poetry Workshop--Playing with our ABC's: Poetry Using the Alphabet as Structure
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the Modesto Library Auditorium for “Playing with our ABC’s: Poetry Using the Alphabet as Structure\,” a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Gillian Wegener. This workshop will focus on using the alphabet as structure for new poems. We’ll try our hand at abecedarians\, observational alphabet poems\, and dictionary poems. Walk-ins welcome.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/free-poetry-workshop-at-the-modesto-library/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065217
CREATED:20230625T014404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230709T195639Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García\, hosted by Stella Beratlis \nDate: Tuesday\, July 11\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom–RSVP required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYld-CrrzIiE9f-nC5FZF4UnTu3ZCbULvXC. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic: 3 mins per poet\, follows the featured readers. Open mic sign-up.  \nAideed Medina\nAideed Medina is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet\, award winning spoken word artist and a playwright. She is a California Naturalist\, and practices “flor y canto” as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history. Her work has appeared in Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine\, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal\, La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Art of the Commune\, Split This Rock\, Nueva York Poetry Review\, Di-Liio Revista Literaria\, Artivista Anthology\, as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix\, Fresno Grand Opera\, and co-writer of Eclectic Collective plays: Encounter Intuitive and Artista Invisible. Her debut collection\, 31 Hummingbird\, was just published earlier this year by Xingao Press. Aideed has a forthcoming full-length poetry collection\, Segmented Bodies\, from Prickly Pear Press coming later this year. In 2024\, the Editorial Universitaria of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico will be publishing her work poetry in a series that pairs Chicano-Mexican poets. \nAbout 31 Hummingbird\n31 Hummingbird | A suite of poems is the debut collection by Chicana poet Aideed Medina. 31 Hummingbird chronicles a human relationship\, and ascends with the flights of hummingbirds. The hummingbird is a unique being and a metaphor of the racing of hearts\, whose beating never fluctuates whether in mid-flight\, hovering\, being rejected\, ejected\, accepted or dive-bombing for the nectars and sugared waters of the embraces. \nAideed Medina’s hummingbird poems are cross-pollinators: She brushes our tongues and eyes with the poetics of aerodynamic words. \nHer debut collection of humming-poems is an invitation to risk flying on the wings of feathered lightning. Up\, down\, across\, forward\, backward\, fluttering like thunder and lightning\, 31 Hummingbird invites close and patient reading\, waiting for the hummingbird to appear and disappear in the flash of a few lines. \nRamón García\nRamón García is the author of two books of poetry The Chronicles (Red Hen Press\, 2015) and Other Countries (What Books Press\, 2010)\, and a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013).  The Chronicles was a finalist for the Latino International Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English in 2016. \nGarcía has published poetry\, fiction and scholarly work in a variety of journals\,  anthologies and museum catalogs.  His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry anthology\, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Los Angeles Review\, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas.  He has contributed to the art work and projects of various visual artists\, including Berta Jottar\, Harry Gamboa Jr.\, Susan Silton\, David John Attyah\, and Sandra de la Loza. \n Ramón García was born in Colima\, Mexico and grew up in Modesto\, California.  He has a B.A. in World Literature from University of California\, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego. He is a Professor at California State University\, Northridge and lives in downtown Los Angeles. \nAbout The Chronicles\n“Ramón García’s The Chronicles is wondrously deceptive. At first we may think we know the folkloric stuff dreams are made of\, but soon one is inside a unique world where\, through language and ritual\, an edgy authority speaks through metaphor\, chronicling the underbelly of the spoken and unspoken\, and at times even the unspeakable. The Chronicles unearths things we didn’t know we knew—surprising\, new\, clear-eyed twists and turns. This collection of urgent poems\, partly woven from stories inherited\, sings through the past to the present and future.”—Yusef Komunyakaa
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the Modesto Library’s Makerspace on Saturday\, June 24\, 2023 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for “Questions\, Lies\, & Repetition\,” a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Linda Scheller. Participants will read\, discuss\, and write poetry in this free\, in-person workshop open to the public. All ages are welcome\, and no prior poetry experience is required!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center as we present poets Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell in a free on-line poetry reading hosted by Gillian Wegener.\n\nABOUT LYNN HANSEN\nLynn M. Hansen is a retired Modesto Junior College professor of marine biology. A member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle\, Orinda\, CA; MoSt Poetry Center\, Modesto; and National League of American Pen Women\, her work reflects her sense of place and the art of storytelling. In 2013 a collection of her poems was published by Quercus Review Press entitled Flicker: Poems. She is currently writing an historical novel about her maternal grandmother\, Mernie Daisy Lewis\, 1882-1963.\n\nABOUT RICHARD ROBBINS\nRichard Robbins was raised in California and Montana\, taught in Minnesota for many years\, and recently moved back west to Oregon. Robbins has received awards or residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Poetry Society of America\, the Anderson Center\, Willapa Bay AiR\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. From 1986 to 2014\, he directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato\, which the Minnesota Humanities Commission called\, “the premier small-town reading series in the country.”\n“Part balm\, part prayer\, part revelation\, the quietly moving and incantatory poems in Richard Robbins’s The Oratory of All Souls reveal a poetic voice that is masterful\, adept\, and profoundly compelling. These supple poems unfold seamlessly\, with the muscular music of moving water: elegant\, clear\, fierce. Robbins has the gaze of a painter\, with a gorgeous insistence on image\, line\, shadow\, and light.” —Lee Ann Roripaugh\, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50\n\nABOUT THOMAS MITCHELL\nThomas Mitchell is a shrewd and trusted observer of the natural world. In this third book\, Where We Arrive\, Mitchell listens to “the counsel of water” and moves “from one silence to another.” And as such\, he spies “a red-tailed hawk drifting in absolute loneliness.” More often than not\, Mitchell is a poet of intimate feelings. He remarks time and again upon various stars and moons\, towhees and starlings. His poetry is a poetry bent on reimagining the world.\n—Thomas Aslin\, author of Salvage and A Moon Over Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Jun 13\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuqvrDkrHN0lTrVUQlB77MvaiI83W4zMAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-lynn-hansen-richard-robbins-and-thomas-mitchell/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poet's Corner Reading/Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us at McHenry Museum on Sunday\, June 4 at 1 pm for a reading featuring the winners of the 2023 Poet’s Corner Contest\, sponsored by the City of Modesto. \nFor contest information\, please visit the City of Modesto Poet’s Corner page. (Contest info will be updated soon.)
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading-reception/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Readings,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:2023 Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:AILEEN JAFFA YOUNG POETS CONTEST \nCo-sponsored by MoSt (Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center) and the National League of American Penwomen (NLAPW)\, Modesto chapter. \nThis contest is offered as a means of encouraging young writers throughout Stanislaus County and as a way to remember poet Aileen Jaffa\, the founding President of the Poets of the San Joaquin and member of the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. \nAwards and Recognition \nFirst\, second and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards from the MoSt Poetry Center. Prizes are: First Place $25\, Second Place $15\, Third Place $10. In addition\, the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will award a $60 Aileen Jaffa Outstanding Poem award in each of two combined categories\, Categories 1 and 2\, and Categories 3 and 4. \nThe current president of the NLAPW Modesto chapter will present the awards\, and the winning poems will be read at an Awards Ceremony at 2 P.M. on Saturday May 13\, 2023 at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock. \nFor more information\, contact info@mostpoetry.org \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2023-aileen-jaffa-young-poets-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Submission Opportunities,Youth Poetry
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