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SUMMARY:Deadline Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest
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. \nEligibility and Deadline \nAny student enrolled in a Stanislaus County school\, grades K through 12\, is eligible to submit up to 3 entries\, at $1 per entry. Each entry\, except for typing\, must be the original creative work of the student\, although parents or teachers may provide encouragement.  Postmark deadline for submissions is April 3\, 2023. \n  \nDetails at Aileen Jaffa Youth Poetry Contest.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-april-3-aileen-jaffa-youth-contest/
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SUMMARY:Deadline: City of Modesto Poet's Corner Contest
DESCRIPTION:The Parks\, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. Please view the Poet’s Corner Contest Submission Form for full details. \nSubmissions\nPoems will not be returned after the contest\, so entrants should keep copies of their work. \nElectronic Submissions\n\nInclude one cover page with poet’s name\, address\, email and title(s) of poem(s). If poet is a student\, then indicate grade\, school and name of teacher on the cover page.\nSubmit cover page and poem/poems in one file in .doc\, .docx or .pdf format to the Poets Corner Contest Submission Email.\n\nMailed Submissions\nSubmit one copy of each poem along with one entry form for each poet to one of the following locations: \n\nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, C/O Poet’s Corner Contest\, PO Box 578940\, Modesto\, CA\, 95353\nMcHenry Museum\, C/O Poet’s Corner Contest\,1402 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\n\nPrinted Entry Form and Contest Rules\nMay be picked up at the following locations: \n\nParks\, Recreation & Neighborhoods Department Office – 1010 Tenth Street Place\, Suite 4400\nMcHenry Museum – 1402 I Street\nMcHenry Mansion Visitor’s Center and Gift Shop – 924 15th Street\nStanislaus County Library – 1500 I Street\n\nDeadline\nEntries must be postmarked by Friday\, March 24\, 2023 or submitted electronically by 11:59 pm on Friday\, March 24\, 2023.  \nRequirements\nThe contest is open to all Stanislaus County residents. \nCategories\n\nGeneral: Any kind of poetry on any subject\, rhymed or unrhymed.  Free verse and form welcome.  Group of three haiku accepted as one entry.\nSpecial: “Renewal: How do we restore and renew ourselves and our community after years of pandemic? How do we individually and collectively allow ourselves the space to mourn and feel what has been lost while holding optimism and being open to possibility? What might renewal look like in nature\, ourselves\, our families\, and our communities? What does it feel like to be hopeful\, imagine a better world\, and create the future?”\n\nEntry Limitations\n\nTwo poems per person\nEach poem may not exceed 32 lines\nAll entries must be typed on standard 8.5″ x 11″ paper\, double-spaced\, in standard font\nEntries must be unpublished at the time of submission\nEntries may be two of one category or one of each category\nAt the top of each poem\, indicate contest category and\, if under the age of 18\, grade in school\nDo not put name of poet on any submitted poem: put name on cover page or entry form only\nNo plagiarism or offensive language.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContest Winners\nContest winners will be notified by email (or mail\, when email is unavailable).  Poets will be invited to read their winning poems on Sunday\, June 4\, 2023 at 1:00 PM at the McHenry Museum\, followed by light refreshments. \nWinning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf\, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-for-poets-corner-contest-march-24/
CATEGORIES:Contests,Submission Opportunities,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Rooja Mohassessey & Farnaz Fatemi
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to feature Rooja Mohassessy and Farnaz Fatemi for our Second Tuesday reading in March. \nPlease RSVP to get Zoom link for reading:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucOmqrzIrGdb0wNX9dF4OQqZv7IRjNEOT \nHosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus Stella Beratlis; open mic follows featured poets. (Open mic sign-up.) \nRooja Mohassessy\nRooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator living in Northern California. She is a MacDowell fellow and a graduate of the Pacific University MFA program. Her first poetry collection\, When Your Sky Runs Into Mine\, was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Poetry Prize and was published by Elixir Press earlier this year. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Poet Lore\, RHINO Poetry\, Southern Humanities Review\, CALYX Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Cream City Review\, The Rumpus\, The Adroit Journal\, Bare Life Review\, Potomac Review\, The Florida Review\, New Letters\, International Literary Quarterly\, and elsewhere. \nABOUT WHEN YOUR SKY RUNS INTO MINE\n“When Your Sky Runs Into Mine is a stunning debut collection … about personal revolution\, the turning toward art in times of suffering\, the claiming of a rich cultural heritage.”—Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo \n“Rooja Mohassessy’s debut collection belies any notion of a first book. It is a work of expansive vision and formal achievement\, sounding an assured and unforgettable voice in poetry. “ —Shara McCallum\, author of No Ruined Stone \nMohassessy’s intellectual power and penchant for image stand out in beautiful ways in this debut collection. She displays a painterly use of color\, texture\, and image that reflects her striking awareness of the physical world.  Her capacity for efficient and elegant syntax and her fierce intelligence when dealing with political subjects and subjects of the female body in this world\, constitute a most welcome addition to American poetry.  This is a very impressive debut collection by a most promising poet.” —Kwame Dawes\, author of UnHistory with John Kinsella \nFarnaz Fatemi\nFarnaz Fatemi\, an Iranian American poet and writer\, and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate for 2023 & 2024\, is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective. She was formerly a writing instructor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her book\, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر\, was published in September 2022. It won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\, selected by Tracy K. Smith\, and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly.  Some of her poems and lyric essays appear in Poem-a-Day (Poets.org)\, Tab Journal\, Pedestal Review\, Nowruz Journal\, Grist Journal and Tupelo Quarterly. \nABOUT SISTER TONGUE\n“Delicious\, provocative\, and incredibly wise\, Farnaz Fatemi transcends years and oceans in these pages. Like gripping a cup and string to the ear\, Sister Tongue is a hopeful missive\, proof of words and their witnesses\, an atlas of the wonder of becoming.”—T Kira Madden\, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Poet Farnaz Fatemi is the soulful Iranian American truth-teller and wonder-wanderer we’ve needed to hear. In Farsi\, in English\, in Tehran\, or California\, these poems cherish the miracle of connectedness by weaving family threads through time and space—through sisters\, mothers\, grandmothers\, through a changed and changing world. Sister Tongue is a luscious love letter to language(s)\, spoken in a trusting\, intimate voice. The poet recognizes the twinned solace of silence and song\, of sister and self. Loss takes its seat\, as it does\, at the table\, and Fatemi\, with tea\, family history\, powerful memory\, and a new/old tongue\, inscribes it alongside the depths of beauty and joy in this radiant book of passionate understanding.”—Brenda Shaughnessy\, author of The Octopus Museum \n“I praise the present tense of these poems for its tensile strength\, its ability to hold the struggle that is happening in the past\, present\, and future. The way it speaks of the perpetual\, of what it is to be tongue-tied in the presence of one’s other self. ‘Language is geological\,’ this speaker tells us\, ‘a process of accumulation\, and accretion accompanied by landslides.’ In setting out to speak the language of her blood\, she finds herself at once estranged and embraced. Thrilled and defeated. What to do with such a natural disaster? These poems persist in their attempts to bridge worlds\, offering hope of a complex and hard-won reconciliation\, one richly crafted line at a time. In the words of Fatemi\, ‘I want the foreigner in me / to meet the foreigner in me.’”—Danusha Laméris\, author of Bonfire Opera“ \nSister Tongue\, Farnaz Fatemi’s debut poetry collection\, transports us to a place where language must stretch to fit the largeness of human love and longing\, and in doing so\, fills the absences we did not even know we harbored. Sister Tongue begins to say what many of us already know—that borders and countries are too limiting to define us. Her poems offer us both a reckoning and a salve.”—Persis M. Karim\, chair of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-rooja-mohassessey-farnaz-fatemi/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Deadline for STANISLAUS COUNTY YOUTH POET LAUREATE Contest
DESCRIPTION:Please check our YOUTH POET LAUREATE Contest page for all the details plus application. \nApplications for the 2023 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate open January 1\, 2023! \n\nAre you a teen? Are you SUPER into poetry? We want to hear from you! \nIntroducing the Inaugural process to choose a Youth Poet Laureate for Stanislaus County!  \nTeens ages 15–19 who reside or go to school in Stanislaus County may submit up to five original works of poetry demonstrating their commitment to the mastery of the art and craft of poetry. \nRULES:  \n● Poems may be in any style or form. \n● You must submit at least 3 poems but no more than five poems. \n● Poems must be the original creative work of the poet. Plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification from this and all future Youth Poet Laureate opportunities. \n● All poems must be typed. Single or double spaced\, 12 pt Times New Roman preferred unless the poem’s form dictates the format (example: blackout poetry\, erasures\, visual poetry\, spoken word\, etc.) \n● Brief artist statement/biography describing why you want to be a Youth Poet Laureate. Who inspired you to write poetry? \n● No gratuitous violence or sexual content. No hate speech. No slander. \nSubmission Dates:  \nSUBMIT APPLICATION\nJANUARY 1 – FEBRUARY 27\, 2023.\nEmail PDF application and poem attachment per instructions on application. \n  \nIF SELECTED\, POET:  \n\nwill receive $500\nserve a one-year term from June 1\, 2023 – May 31\, 2024\nmust be available for public appearances throughout Stanislaus County\nmust either live in or be enrolled in a school in Stanislaus County at time of submission and for the entire term if chosen\nmust attest that their work is solely their own original creative work\nwill work with a mentor from the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center; display their poems in the Young Adult section of the Modesto Library and elsewhere; and will mentor others;\nwill write at least 3 poems during their term and present these at events to be decided\n\n\n\n\nwill be asked to participate in at least two poetry events in the community focusing on engaging other youth in poetry. Examples of these possible Youth Poet Laureate activities are as follows:\n\nIf they’d like to create a poetry-related project of their own\, the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will offer assistance/support;\nfeature at a reading as part of the Second Tuesday Reading Series at the end of their term; and/or\nwrite a poem for the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner event.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-for-stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-contest/
CATEGORIES:Contests,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tamer Mostafa & Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tamer Mostafa and Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, Feb. 14\,  2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link\nOpen  Mic Signup: https://forms.gle/d51j2WqGmBrzrTLT9. 3 mins per reader\, please.  \nTAMER MOSTAFA \nTamer Said Mostafa (pronouns: he/him/his)\, a radical social worker by day and poet by night\, is a Stockton\, California native whose poetry has appeared in over twenty literary journals and magazines\, including Confrontation\, Zone 3\, and Freezeray. Tamer is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee whose debut full-length book of poetry\, Where Will I Find America? was released in August\, 2021 and is available online. He is also the author of Which Way Will the Water Drag Our Bodies\, published in 2020.Mostafa is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at University of California\, Davis where he won the Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg Contest for Poetry. As an Arab-American Muslim\, Tamer lives life through spirituality\, community work\, and the music of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. \nCAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS  \nCarol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills and is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts\, MFA in Writing program\, where she received a Merit Scholarship. She is an eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and an eight-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest\, with her manuscript\, Before I Go to Sleep. In 2018 her book In the Making of Goodbyes was nominated for The CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry\, and her poem A Mall in California took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. In 2019 her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and Epitaph for the Beloved was nominated for The Northern California Book Award. Her latest collection of poems\, Alice in Ruby Slippers\, was short-listed for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and awarded honorable mention in the Poetry category. You can find out more about Carol Lynn’s work by visiting her website: https://www.clgrellaspoetry.com/ \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2651/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry On Saturday: Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Arts Center  \n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California \n            Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday readings in person on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock.  Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve from the Bay Area\, followed by our Open Mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nAndrena Zawinski is a veteran teacher of writing Jack Hirschman called “an activist poet whose works open up paths of struggle\, celebration\, revolutionary victories.”  About her fourth full-length poetry collection\, Born Under the Influence\, Mary Mackey lauds the poems as “tough\, smart\, beautifully crafted” and Michael Simms says\, “we are lucky to have this poet among us.”  Her work has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, CQ\, Plainsongs\, Progressive Magazine\, Rattle\, and more\, and is widely anthologized\, including Crossing Class\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter\, Women Write Resistance\, and others with awards from Akron Art Museum\, International Human Rights Creators of Justice\, Ventura County Poetry Project\, Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize\, Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize\, and PEN Oakland Award.  She was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, PA\, but has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about Andrena’s latest book\, visit:   https://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/zawinski.html \n \nBorn and raised in New England\, Susie Meserve is the author of the poetry collection Little Prayers\, which won a Blue Light Award from Blue Light Press and was published in 2018.  She is also the author of the chapbook Faith.  Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, Elle\, The Washington Post\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Gulf Coast\, Salamander\, and more.  She lives in northern California with her family. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:11th Annual Poetry Festival with Amanda Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) will host the 11th Annual Poetry Festival on February 4\, 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church\, 1528 Oakdale Road\, Modesto\, California. The event will run from 9 am to 1:30 pm.    \nFacilitated by Amanda Moore\, an awarded-winning\, nationally recognized poet from the Bay Area\, attendees will be led through a program titled At the Starting Line\, A Workshop on Poetic Opening\, which promises to be very helpful for both new and experienced poets.    \nTickets ($40 each) for the event are available through Eventbrite.  Attendance is limited to the first 44 people who purchase tickets. Coffee\, tea\, and table snacks will be provided\, and attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. As in the past\, the festival will include an author’s table and camaraderie with poets and poetry aficionados from throughout Northern California.  Eventbrite link for tickets: https://most2023fest.eventbrite.com  \nAbout Our Workshop Facilitator\, Amanda 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. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets\, ZZYZVA\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting\, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is the recipient of writing awards\, residencies\, and fellowships from The Brown Handler Residency\, In Cahoots\, The Writers Grotto\, The Writing Salon\, Brush Creek Arts Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.    \nPoetry Co-editor at Women’s Voices for Change and a reader at VIDA Review and INCH\, Amanda is a high school English teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter. https://amandapmoore.com. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/11th-annual-poetry-festival-with-amanda-moore/
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Lee Herrick's Scar & Flower
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Modesto Library to discuss Lee’s collection Scar and Flower. Copies available at the service desk at the downtown library. You don’t need to have read the book to join us!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/book-discussion-lee-herricks-scar-flower/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan  Cohen\, on Tuesday\, January 10\, 2023 at 7:00 p\,m PST.  Hosted by Stella Beratlis\, city of Modesto poet laureate emeritus. \nRSVP for Zoom link \nOpen  Mic Signup: https://forms.gle/d51j2WqGmBrzrTLT9. 3 minutes per reader\, please.  \nSUSAN COHEN\nSusan Cohen is a journalist and poet in Berkeley\, California. She has been a newspaper reporter\, a contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine\, and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California. In 2013\, she earned an MFA in poetry. Her third full-length book of poems\, Democracy of Fire\, was released from Broadstone Books on September 30\, 2022; it was a finalist for the Washington Prize\, Wilder Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize\,  \nSusan’s second book of poems\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. It also was a runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize\, finalist for the May Swenson Award\, Blue Lynx Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize. \nSusan’s first full-length book of poems\, Throat Singing\, was published in 2012 by Cherry Grove Collections. She also wrote two chapbooks: Backstroking (Unfinished Monument Press; 2005)\, which won the Acorn-Rukeyser Prize; and Finding the Sweet Spot (Finishing Line Press; 2009). \nAbout Democracy of Fire\nA thread of elegy runs through Democracy of Fire\, Susan Cohen’s wise and wonderful new poetry collection. Tenderly\, precisely\, these poems record a litany of the world’s ongoing losses: “Greenland’s ice sheet pooling like tears into the ocean\,” elephants\, beetles\, democracies\, “languages left behind like cloaks\,” and “our own bones interred without ceremony.” Cohen shows us our interconnectedness\, a reminder of both the beauty and value of what’s at stake. Yet\, paradoxically\, this vision makes Democracy of Fire a deeply comforting book. Of the planet Mercury she writes\, “…a pinprick ablaze for longer than our species will exist…Between us and it\, there’s a distance far beyond air\, and beyond despair.” \n—Ellen Bass\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets & author of Indigo \n  \nBrad Buchanan\nBrad Buchanan’s writings have appeared in nearly 200 journals\, and he has also published 4 book-length collections of poetry: his latest\, CHIMERA\, was just published in November 2022. The Miracle Shirker (Poets Corner Press\, 2005)\, Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter (Roan Press\, 2008)\, and The Scars\, Aligned: A Cancer Narrative (Finishing Line Press\, 2019) as well as two academic books. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Sacramento State University.  He was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in February 2015\, and underwent a stem cell transplant in 2016\, which involved temporary vision loss and disability\, as well as an ongoing illness: chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease. \nAbout CHIMERA\nBrad Buchanan‘s painfully stunning new collection\, CHIMERA\, continues his explorations of the monstrosities that cancer can create in the lives of human beings as they struggle through invasive testing\, treatments\, recovery\, and the hope of being cancer-free that stem cell transplants offer. Buchanan…documents\, reports\, questions\, disputes both himself and the world cancer and chimerism force him to confront. He helps us see and feel in a most visceral way what it means—for him\, for us\, for those he loves and those who love him—to be engaged in this struggle. “Cancer is not your standard bully\, / it will not back down if confronted / with sufficiently brave defiance. / It doesn’t have a nervous system / to mobilize or sympathize. / The only martial arts it knows/ are patience\, stealth and resilience.” These poems will surprise you with their tenacity\, empathy and ingenious language. \n–Susan Kelly-DeWitt\, author of SPIDER SEASON (Cold River Press\, 2016) and GRAVITATIONAL TUG (Main Street Rag Publishing\, 2020) \n  \nRegister in advance for this reading:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkc-uopzIiE9CmsJAOxm1JzNtUdnMXYXqN \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/jan2023stp/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Beverly Burch and Linda Marie Prather
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Beverly Burch and Linda Marie Prather. Hosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus Stella Beratlis.  \nDate: Tuesday\, Dec 13\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link \nOpen mic follows featured readers. Please sign up and plan to read for about 3 minutes. \nBeverly Burch\nBeverly Burch’s new book\, Leave Me a Little Want\, was published by Terrapin Books this year. Her last book\, Latter Days of Eve (BkMk Press)\, won the John Ciardi Prize. How a Mirage Works (Sixteen Rivers) was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Her first book\, Sweet to Burn (2004)\, won the Gival Poetry Prize and Lambda Literary Award. Beverly’s poems and prose can be found in 32 Poems\, Gulf Coast\, Southern Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Los Angeles Review\, New England Review\, Barrow Street\, Smartish Pace\, and Grist. She also has two psychoanalytic books on women’s sexual and gender relations: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois) and Other Women (Columbia University). Beverly grew up in Atlanta\, GA and has lived many years in Oakland\, CA with her wife.  \nAbout Leave Me a Little Want\n“I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the “treacherous province” of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody\, the tedious and the risky\, and so I not only trust her\, but feel jolted awake.” \n-Julia Levine\, Ordinary Psalms \n\nLinda Maria Prather \nLinda Marie Prather has five published chapbooks\, the latest Searching Shadows\, Finding Shade\, (Cactus Wren Press). Unforced Rhythms\, (Finishing Line Press) won 3rd place in the NLAPW 2014 Letters Competition. Her full-length book\, Summer Song\, was published in 2016 by Pen Women Press. She edits for Song of The San Joaquin and is a member of National League of American Pen Women\, in Arts and Letters. \nHer poetry appears in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. Linda’s published\nwidely and received prizes from Penumbra\, Poets’ Dinner Contest\, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle. She has won\nthe Golden Pegasus Award and has been featured poet twice for the Stanislaus Connections poetry column  “A Gathering of Voices.” She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2561/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry on the Spot at ModShop
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will be back in action with Poetry on the Spot at Saturday’s Mod Shop Handmade Market. Poets from MoSt will write you a poem right there on the spot using words you choose. We’ll be at Mistlin Gallery  on J Street  between 10th and 11th streets from 2:00 to 8:00 on Saturday\, November 26.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/pots2022/
CATEGORIES:Poetry on the Spot
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 21\, 2022     6:30-7:30 p.m.       \nStanislaus County Library Makerspace    1500 I Street\, Modesto \n The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón \nJoin host Gary Thomas for a discussion of The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón\, the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.  Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast\, The Slowdown.  Her new book of poetry\, The Hurting Kind\, is out now from Milkweed Editions.  She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. \n5 copies of the book are available (while they last) to check out at the Modesto Library (1500 I Street.). \n An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman\, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, National Book Award finalist\, and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.  \n “I have always been too sensitive\, a weeper / from a long line of weepers\,” writes Limón.  “I am the hurting kind.”  What does it mean to be the hurting kind?  To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys\, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world?  To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own\, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? \n \n“Ada Limón’s sixth and latest collection is a testament to the power of sensitivity. As with her previous award-winning books\, The Carrying and Bright Dead Things\, these poems are acutely aware of the natural world. And Limón has a knack for acknowledging nature’s little mysteries in order to fully capture its history and abundance. For her\, evidence of poetry is everywhere. She connects big ideas – fear\, isolation\, even death – with little details\, like field sparrows\, a box of matches or “the body moving / freely.” Above all\, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender.” NPR\, Books We Love \n“”Poetry readers have come to expect greatness from Limón\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award\, and that is exactly what the author offers in The Hurting Kind. . . . My most brief statement on the quality of this collection is this: If you have space to teach just one book of poetry\, make it The Hurting Kind. . . . What Limón manages with The Hurting Kind is rare; the poems are at once highly specific and yet broadly relatable\, both technically masterful and easily comprehensible. In sum\, this collection works equally well for both the avid poetry enthusiast and the reluctant reader. If I was going to try and convince someone that poetry is our most important verbal art\, I would start with The Hurting Kind. . . . The Hurting Kind is a collection that begs to be shared\, and one that will inevitably show signs of wear as readers carry it with them for weeks at a time.”—The Poetry Question \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Carnegie Poetry on Saturday Series  2:00 p.m. November 19\, 2022 featuring Bryan Medina & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Saturday\, November 19\, 2022 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA  from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for a poetry reading by Bryan Medina and Linda Scheller with an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \n        S. Bryan Medina is a former student of U. S. poet laureate emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, and his poetry has graced stages in the San Francisco BayArea\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded both the Inner Ear Open Mic and the Beat Down  Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Medina\, a long-time art activist\, has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations\, including the 2014 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award\, for contributions to the rich artistic and cultural heritage in Fresno. He is the author of More than Soil\, Less than Sand and his work has appeared in journals such as Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In the Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs\, among others. In 2017 Medina was named Fresno County’s third Poet Laureate\, serving a distinguished two-year term reaching out to the community featuring readings\, school and university visits\, writing workshops\, and meetings with business and political leaders throughout the state of California.  Medina is a Desert Storm/Gulf War veteran and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.\n\n\n        Linda Scheller is a retired public elementary school teacher and the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce\nLight (FutureCycle Press\, 2017) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag\, 2022) as well as a chapbook\, Halcyon. Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are widely published in journals and anthologies including Colorado Review\, Arkana\, Gyroscope Review\, Plays\, On the Seawall\, Sugar House Review\, Poetry East\, and The Wild Word. She volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio\, tutors adults in literacy and English language acquisition\, and serves on the boards of MoSt Poetry and the Stanislaus County Arts Council. Ms. Scheller is a member of the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women and sings with Modesto Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Her website is lindascheller.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegie-poetry-on-saturday-series-200-p-m-november-19-2022-featuring-bryan-medina-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T190000
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SUMMARY:Kiss Me Like You Voted: Election Night Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world\, wrote the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821 in the essay\, “A Defence of Poetry.” By this\, he meant that poetry reflects the real world and that the poet’s imagination is the faculty  which allows us to perceive beauty in the world–thereby helping create civilization itself. Poets are makers of civilization\, no less–hence\, poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. \nWith this in mind\, we invite you to the Election Day installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series. The November 8 reading is a virtual open mic around the questions: How do we reckon the promise of this country with its violent past and present? How can we love when so much is on the line? How can we NOT love? \nOpen mic 15 poets max; 3 minutes per person–sign up to read at https://forms.gle/izdLKgzryo1uFzwLA \nRSVP for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOqhpjgrGNZ9calCIAyo_9KPb7XWmAy_ \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2022nov8/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells & James Fujinami Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore  \nJoin us as we welcome two tremendous poets to our Second Tuesday Poetry series: State of Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore of Los Angeles. Both have new collections published by Four Way Books. We’re pleased to welcome these poets to our Central Valley poetry community.  Open mic follows featured poets\, 3 min per poet\, please. Sign up for open mic. \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, October 11\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link \nCyrus Cassells\nA 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, Cyrus Cassells has also been a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and a Lannan Literary Award. His first book\, The Mud Actor\, was a 1981 National Poetry Series Selection. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. His Catalan translations\, Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. He was nominated for a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his cultural criticism for The Washington Spectator. My Gingerbread Shakespeare\, his first novel\, and his seventh book of poems\, Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? were published in 2021. In 2021\, he was appointed Texas poet laureate\, and in 2022\, Cassells received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and his eighth collection The World That the Shooter Left Us was published by Four Way Press. He lives in Austin and is a tenured full professor at Texas State University. \nAbout The World That the Shooter Left Us\n“Wrestling in the clutches of fury and mourning\, Cassells—long a master purveyor of both the splendor and contradictions of the natural world\, as well as the voluptuary elements of the self—turns his consummate clear-eyed gaze to a bleak and burgeoning brutality that threatens our days\, siphons the spirit and challenges the realm of the poet. The World the Shooter Left Us is a world defined by stark boundaries and firepower\, chalk outlines\, rampant injustices and histories tainted with each and every version of sin. Cassells\, a wily and relentless witness\, doesn’t tiptoe through the maelstrom or allow the reader to turn away. Instead\, he becomes the writer that this moment needs—one with the lyrical skill and decades of experience to craft this revelatory guidebook for our grief.” —Patricia Smith  \n“The World That the Shooter Left Us is poetry of conscience at its most crafted and compassionate. The title poem is an elegy for a beloved Latino lawyer\, murdered by a white assailant over a parking space\, that forces us to contemplate all we have lost in a society bristling with guns\, rage and bigotry. However\, the title of another poem captures the essence of this eloquent collection: “The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency.” In the face of plague after plague—COVID-19\, lethal police violence\, kids in cages\, the end of asylum\, sexual exploitation\, Trumpism—these poems show us a way out\, a vision of transcendence through reclamation of our humanity. Cyrus Cassells demonstrates\, through the resplendent decency of these poems\, that the world the shooter left us is not only a world of death\, but life\, not only bullets\, but poetry.”\n–Martin Espada \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore\nJames Fujinami Moore’s debut collection indecent hours was published by Four Way Books in 2022. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow\, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Fellow\, and the Four Way Books Fellow at the Frost Place Conference in Poetry. He received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nAbout indecent hours \n“James Fujinami Moore’s powerful poems keep intimacy active in their measure and perspectives\, working through a wide range of public and private histories. They close in and zoom out with an intensity of tonal scale\, one that binds an elegance steeped in experience with all the irreducible cuts and marks the poems invoke and depict. Those cuts and marks may be rendered with a surrealist’s touch or a realist’s blunt recall\, as needed\, and with a precise understanding of the various physical and emotive overlapping roles the glimpse\, the conversation\, the story\, the touch\, and the brawl each retain. indecent hours is a terrific book.”  -Anselm Berrigan \n“James Fujinami Moore’s poems possess the uncanny capacity to be at once unsettled and unnervingly lucid. It is this particular power that fuels his searing investigations—into the intimate relationships between representation and violence\, into how families and countries take shape around those who are missing. Moore’s poems are urgent\, achingly searching\, unflinching. Here is a poet who moves as he needs to—flipping foreground and background\, rewinding and replaying\, refusing the distortions of fear.”  –Mary Syzbist  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvduuqqD4rGdz7w9BSPEysavrDAG4cdbBq\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/oct2022/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Workshop with Kai Coggin
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet Kai Coggin will facilitate a Zoom workshop and read her poetry Saturday\, October 1\, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT. \n$20 per person; please register at https://mostfall2022.eventbrite.com\nto receive Zoom link.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKai Coggin (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Mining for Stardust (FlowerSong Press 2021) and INCANDESCENT (Sibling Rivalry Press 2019). She is a queer woman of color who thinks Black Lives Matter\, a teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council and Arkansas Learning Through the Arts\, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. \nRecently  awarded the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award\, named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times\, and nominated as Hot Springs Woman of the Year\, her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize\, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015\, and Best of the Net 2016\, 2018\, 2021— awarded in 2022. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY\, Best of the Net\, Cultural Weekly\, SOLSTICE\,  Bellevue Literary Review\, TAB\, Entropy\, SWWIM\, Split This Rock\, Sinister Wisdom\, Lavender Review\, Tupelo Press\, West Trestle Review\, and elsewhere. Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review\, and on the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Writing Guild. \nShe lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park\, Arkansas.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-workshop-with-kai-coggin/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas and Ian Miller
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas and Ian Miller \nJoin us at 7 pm on Zoom as we feature Gary Thomas\, reading from his new collection All the Connecting Lights. He is joined by poet Ian Miller of Modesto. \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, Sept 13\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nOn Zoom–Please RSVP for link \nOpen mic follows featured poets. Three minutes per reader; please sign up for open mic. \nGary Thomas \nGary Thomas taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years\, and junior college English for seven—sharing and discussing at least one poem each day with his students.  He has presented poetry workshops for statewide organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. He has had poems published in In the Grove and The Comstock Review\, among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. He is currently vice president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, is a member of the Curriculum Study Commission and of the local writing group known as The Licensed Fools.  A full-length collection\, ALL THE CONNECTING LIGHTS\, was released in August 2022 from Finishing Line Press. \nAll the Connecting Lights\nAll the Connecting Lights is a marvel\, an homage to the unnoticed and ordinary\, a tender and sweeping reckoning of childhood\, nature\, the mystery of epilepsy\, and how our lives and memories intersect. Thomas sees nuances and symmetries that most of us don’t.  I reveled in the joy of “staying lost” and the grace of “spring rationales.”  I’ve been waiting for this book. It is a chronicle of wonder by a truly gifted poet.\n–Lee Herrick\, author of Scar and Flower \n Gary Thomas’ poems range widely and feel deeply.  From his childhood on a Central California peach farm to the tragic Battle of Aleppo to imagined lives and voices of others\, Thomas’ poems strike chords of generosity and nostalgia and wonder and\, one of his favorite words\, grace.  Reading these poems allows us as the readers to take part in worlds that feel at once familiar and lost to us\, where Neruda and a farm woman share an unlikely birthday tea\, and where we all\, in reading each of these portraits of a moment in time\, are able to “Gladly bear joy’s burden.”\n–Gillian Wegener\, author of This Sweet Haphazard \n In Gary Thomas’ generous full-length collection All the Connecting Lights\, his poetry traverses and pays homage to both real and imaginary landscapes—from the Great Central Valley to a peach farm outside Empire\, California to castle rooms “built in the exosphere.”  Striking images abound.  In “Oleanders and Whoopee Cushions\,” he writes\, “a robin’s burst blue egg / a stiff black widow in her viscous web / earwigs belly up or ready to boil out at a touch.”  These are poems that artfully document moments of the human experience\, “Here abide the lost\, those / abandoned to swirl among / dust motes\, free range sheep\, /and unused memory\, / whose textures and traces / might still be familiar and felt\, / if only in this moment.”  Thomas’ debut collection connects the lights with poetic grace and emotional honesty.\n–Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House \n\nIan Miller\n Ian Miller is a Californian poet\, born and mostly raised in a little passing town called Oakdale. He is the author of June 30th\, 2022 published by Lulu Press (2022) and recently published collections Neon Promises and Neon Promises: Pinky Promise Edition\, both published by Lulu Press (2022). He is currently working on two more projects; one is titled Nothing’s Changed\, and the other is titled Gertie\, Bear\, and Bugaroo: A Mother and Son Project. Neither have an expected completion date yet. Ian currently works at the Modesto Junior College’s Library & Learning Center as an Instructional Support Assistant\, primarily helping to supervise the Writing and Embedded Tutors. He is also working towards a double major in Psychology and English with the end goal being to enter into higher education.  \nThe aforementioned books can be found for purchase here: https://linktr.ee/iandmiller
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/secondtues2022sep/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Saturday in the Park with Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join Modesto Poet Laureate Salvatore Salerno at Davis Community Park\, 2701 College Avenue in Modesto\, CA at 8:00 a.m. PT on September 10\, 2022 for Saturday in the Park with Poetry. Bring a favorite book of poetry or two and share some of your favorite poems with other poetry aficionados. You can also bring poetry books to donate or trade. \nMeet at the picnic tables near the parking lot. In case the tables are occupied\, please also bring a lawn chair\, and we’ll gather elsewhere.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/saturday-in-the-park-with-poetry/
LOCATION:Davis Park\, 2701 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Coffee Tea and Poetry,Poetry on Saturday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220820T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220820T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091739
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SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join facilitator Salvatore Salerno\, poet laureate of Modesto\, for the third MoSt Poetry Summer Workshop of 2022. We will meet on Saturday\, August 20 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Stanislaus County Modesto Library. Participants are requested to bring a poem or two in working drafts\, or even brief phrases of potential poems\, to the workshop.  They will be guided on using repetitive elements in their poetry to create momentum and flow. This workshop is free and in person!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2423/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220813T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220813T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091739
CREATED:20220717T223308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T174041Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Aidé González and Gary Thomas will read their poetry on August 13\, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. during MoSt Poetry on Saturday at the Carnegie Arts Center\, located at 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, CA. There will be light refreshments and an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \nNancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet\, educator\, and activist. Her work has appeared in Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature\, La Tolteca\, Mujeres De Maiz Zine\, Hinchas de Poesía\,  Fifth Wednesday Journal and several other literary journals. Her work is featured in Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, Sacramento Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology\, Lowriting: Shots\, Rides\, and Stories from the Chicano Soul\, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. \n  \n. Gary Thomas grew up on a peach farm outside Empire\, California.  Prior to retirement\, he taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years and junior college English for seven\, sharing and discussing at least one poem every day with his students.  He has presented poetry workshops for statewide organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. He has had poems published in In the Grove\, Time of Singing\, and The Comstock Review\, among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets. He is currently vice president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.  All the Connecting Lights\, published by Finishing Line Press\, is his first full-length collection.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-nancy-aide-gonzalez-and-gary-thomas/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220809T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220809T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry presents Field Studies: Poems We Love
DESCRIPTION:[Field research is defined as a qualitative method of data collection that aims to observe\, interact and understand people while they are in a natural environment.] \nSecond Tuesday Poetry presents Field Studies\, Poems We Love \nFIELD STUDIES. Maybe poets are social scientists at heart: We ask questions and seek to understand the world\, ourselves\, each other. For this open mic reading\, please come prepared to read a poem that you love–one in which witness\, documentation\, analysis\, and/or understanding are key. You’ll have 3-4 minutes to read your poem(s).  Hosted by Stella Beratlis.  \nDate: Tuesday\, August 9\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nZoom RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-yuqzIuHN2hEdFucto5F3xrkxX-lplH\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-presents-field-studies-poems-we-love/
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:20220720T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220720T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091739
CREATED:20220712T012855Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club   Vantage by Taneum Bambrick
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Book Club will meet Wednesday\, July 20\, 2022 at 4:30 pm Pacific at the Modesto Stanislaus County Library downstairs in the Maker’s Space. Sara Coito will lead a discussion of this month’s selection\, Vantage by Taneum Bambrick. One or two copies of the book are still available to borrow at the library desk. \nWinner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, selected by Sharon Olds (who writes the introduction)\, Vantage is a fictionalized account of the poet’s time spent working as the only woman on a six-person garbage crew around the reservoirs of two massive dams. Bambrick began writing poems in order to document the forms of violence she witnessed towards the people and the environment of the Columbia River. Power—literal and metaphorical—runs through the collection and its stories\, as Bambrick finds connection across the lines.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-vantage-by-taneum-bambrick/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T150000
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SUMMARY:Humor in Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join facilitator Linda Scheller for Humor in Poetry\,  the second MoSt Poetry Summer Workshop of 2022. We’ll meet on Saturday\, July 16 from 1-3pm PT at the Stanislaus County Modesto Library. Participants will examine poems containing humor\, consider methods and ideas for creating humor in poetry\, and write first drafts of a poem enhanced by humor. Free and in person!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/humor-in-poetry-summer-workshop/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Linda Scheller & Zubair Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Zubair Ahmed and Linda Scheller  \nDate: Tuesday\, July 12\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST \nRSVP for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcu6oqD4sGNDZmBo6MV6JoEG46YsUVpYJ  \n  \nLinda Scheller\nLinda Scheller is a poet\, playwright\, and essayist whose work has recently been published in Colorado Review\, On the Seawall\, Arkana\, Sugar House Review\, Terrain\, The Museum of Americana\, and The Wild Word. Her first book of poetry\, Fierce Light\, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2017. Recent honors include finalist for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Book Prize and The Word Works Washington Prize as well as Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations. She is a founding board member of MoSt Poetry\, serves on the Stanislaus County Arts Council\, programs for KCBP Community Radio\, and belongs to the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. Wind & Children\, her new poetry book\, was published by Main Street Rag on June 8\, 2022. \n “Linda Scheller’s Wind and Children is a tragic and beautiful exposition of a teacher’s heart. Tinged with the uncertain fates of her children\, California climate chaos\, and bright birdsong\, these poems sing as a poignant “flute for the wind” in a broken “system that fosters indifference.” Through exquisite metaphor and gripping imagery\, this “mother of thousands” pens 36 years of service with grace and wonder\, regret and hope. And like a true teacher—with love. ~Kai Coggin\, educator and author of Mining for Stardust \n“In Linda Scheller’s Wind and Children\, fifth graders sit “hunched and silent/like a cloud of butterflies/forced to earth.” We worry over them\, their parents\, their homes\, the violence that surrounds them. Scheller refuses to turn away from difficult realities\, yet seeks understanding\, looking to the natural world. Reader\, you’ll travel far before you’ll find a more thoughtful guide than the one you meet and learn to love in the pages of this moving\, care-filled book.” ~Christopher Citro\, author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun \n“Scheller brings the focus of her lens to the world\, showcasing a lifetime of literary lessons\, poetic remembrances\, and artistic manifestations. This volume is a beautiful addition to her work.” ~Indigo Moor\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something \nFor more information and links to publications\, please go to lindascheller.com. \nZubair Ahmed\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Dhaka\, Bangladesh. He works as an engineer in Oakland. He also writes poetry\, having been named by Poets & Writers magazine as one of the top debut poets of 2012. His collection City of Rivers (McSweeney’s\, 2012) was nominated for the California Book Award. Zubair’s works have appeared in Poetry Magazine and The Believer\, among others\, and have been translated into Swedish and French.  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-linda-scheller-zubair-ahmed/
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Clay Hunt and Briana Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Clay Hunt and Briana Muñoz\, hosted by Stella Beratlis.  \nTuesday\, June 14\, 2022\n7:00 pm PST w/ open mic \non Zoom–RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOqvrz8pG9Yi9Z0cV9-AoGodS4mymh-Q \nRSVP Open Mic (3 min per poet): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezxMg1qBq4z4NyNQWRckkONw_hR-JWWJ8HsJ__XjSDKx34GA/viewform \n  \nBriana Muñoz\nBriana Muñoz is a Poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips published by Prickly Pear Publishing (2019) and of Everything Is Returned to the Soil published by FlowerSong Press (2021). She has performed poetry in places like UNEAC (The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba)\, CECUT (The Tijuana Cultural Center)\, El Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego and beyond.  \nBriana currently serves as the Volunteer Event Coordinator for the Sims Library of Poetry and the Volunteer Event Coordinator for the Luis J Rodriguez for CA Governor 2022 campaign. \nAbout Everything is Returned to the Soil/ Todo Vuelve a la Tierra:  \nEverything Is Returned to the Soil is a bilingual\, full-length poetry collection of poems on the spiritual\, political\, and cultural realms. Reading Briana Muñoz’s poetry is like following her as she reclaims her Indigenous culture\, recounts moments growing up wedged in-between two borders\, all while breaking long existing patriarchal structures within her existence as a woman of color.  \nhttps://linktr.ee/Awomanofwords \nLinks to purchase books: https://www.flowersongpress.com/store/p/everythingisreturnedtothesoil\nhttps://www.pricklypearpublishing.com/shop/loose-lips \nClay Hunt\nClay Hunt is the author of three chapbooks: Born Shane\, published by Two Key Customs\, Young When the Sun Went Down\, published by Budget Press\, and Sewn-On Patch\, published by Between Shadows Press. He has poems published in many journals\, some which include Spectra Poets\, The Raw Art Review\, Paper and Ink Literary Zine\, The Rye Whiskey Review\, Penumbra\, Song of the San Joaquin\, Seppuku Quarterly\, and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Some of his poems have won awards such as 2nd place in poetry in Modesto Junior College’s Celebration of the Humanities\, The Dark Sire’s TDS Awards 2021 for poetry\, and the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner Contest. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife\, Laura. \nYoung When the Sun Went Down chapbook can be found at Budgetpress.net \nEmail: Chuntjr89@gmail.com\nInstragram: @claytanic89
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-with-clay-hunt-and-briana-munoz/
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T150000
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SUMMARY:Poems of Connection & Joy
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Wegener will facilitate a free poetry workshop at the downtown Modesto library on Saturday\, June 11\, 2022 from 1:00-3:00. This in-person workshop will focus on creating poems of connection and joy. All ages and experience levels are welcome. This is the first MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop of the season\, so hope to see you there!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poems-of-connection-joy/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091739
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Susan Kelly-Dewitt & Linda Toren
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Susan Kelly-Dewitt and Linda Toren.  \nHosted by Gary Thomas  \nDate: Tuesday\, May 10\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 pm PST \non Zoom–RSVP required: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf–tqTwjHtzOiKfx1CE232QV992N-gyG \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout Susan Kelly-Dewitt\nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of The Gatherer’s Alphabet\, just published in 2022\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, and The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008). \nHer work has been included in many national and regional anthologies including The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press)\, When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women  (Autumn House Press)\, : In Whatever Houses We May Visit: an Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians (American College of Physicians) and Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women’s Poetry (Beacon Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, New Letters\, North American Review and many others. She has been featured on Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily.  \nSusan has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, The Chicago Literary Award from Another Chicago Magazine\, the Bazzanella Award for Short Fiction and a number of Pushcart nominations.  She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. \nOver the years she has worked as a freelance writer and poetry columnist for the Sacramento Bee and Sacramento Union as the editor of the on-line journal Perihelion and the print journal Quercus.  She has been a California Poet-in-the-Schools\, Artistic Director for the Women’s Wisdom Project arts program for homeless and low-income women\, an educator\, and an artist in the prisons.  She lives in Sacramento\, California\, where she is a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and a reviewer for Library Journal.  Previously she was an instructor for the University of California\, Davis and a blogger for Autumn House Press’ Coal Hill Review. She is also an exhibiting visual artist. \nGatherer’s Alphabet is the first book in Gunpowder Press’s California Poets Series. \nPraise for Gatherer’s Alphabet: \nThese luscious poems feel like small museums of infinite wonder. Gallery\, butterfly\, stars in autumn. The wisdom of nature\, the work of angels\, what women endure—I love these poems.  A timeless grace breathes through this marvelous book\, this bounty you’ll be grateful that you read. ­—Lee Herrick\, Fresno Poet Laureate (2015-17) author of Scar and Flower\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This Many Miles from Desire \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt’s concentrations come to life as if in a studio\, with watercolor washes and ink accentuations. As well as mother and father\, ghosts and angels\, words are animated characters urgently communicating— whistling to animals or dogwood gods\, pinches of anger too—a tool to save us. Is she holding a pen—or a moth by its wings? Poems like “Words” and “The Thorne Miniatures” and the title poem gaze multi-eyed at the reader from the palm of her offering hand. — Sandra McPherson\, author of The 5150 Poems and Speech Crush \nWhat I love about Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s poems are the colors\, how they “hold / themselves out / to be touched.” Her mother is described as having “storm-colored hair.” Silence is a “white bulb.” The past is a minefield of blue flowers. This bringing together of nature and mind\, the mundane and the transcendent\, is the result of the poet’s unrestrained sympathy for all living things. Kelly-DeWitt’s companions in this vision-quest are O’Keeffe and Van Gogh\, artists who paint not the appearance of field and cloud\, but the primal energy beneath the surface. The act of seeing is the true subject here. We are fortunate to have Kelly-DeWitt to guide us through this journey. —Michael Simms\, editor of Vox Populi\, author of Nightjar \nComing from a world “sheltered by cold leaves of starlight\,” Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s powerful new work serves as a garden for ghosts\, windows\, and angels capable of making ordinary events extraordinary.  A sharp sense of loss is integral to Gatherer’s Alphabet\, which is steeped in the particulars of memory\, the pebbles\, the dark pits. Here is an “impossible country of imagination“ that must be visited over and over. —Maya Khosla\, Poet Laureate Emerita of Sonoma County\, author of All the Fires of Wind and Light \nAbout Linda Toren\nLinda Toren lives in the foothills of Calaveras County with her husband Theo\, dogs\, a cat\, and many chickens.  Linda is a retired teacher and director of Voices of Wisdom through Manzanita Writers Press (MWP).  She has presented poetry workshops for children and adults\, publishing schoolwide collections of poetry and art at local elementary schools for more than 15 years. \nHer poetry appears in many collections\, including Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode & Sierra (MWP 1995–2008)\, Voices of Wisdom (MWP 2018\, 2019\, 2022)\, Out of the Fire (MWP 2017)\, Collision V: an Intersection of Poetry and Photography (2018)\, and more. This year\, her first full-length collection\, Raven Braids the Wind: A Life in Syllables\, was published by Manzanita Writers Press.   \nRaven Braids the Wind started with a simple assignment in elementary school— write a haiku. That first haiku—Lonely people live/within themselves like dusty/ books upon a shelf—is a senryu (a haiku poem focused on personal reflection or comment about the self or world.) Thousands of haiku later\, this poetic form has become a daily journey in which the author explores and translates the natural world and the inner world of introspection. Whether or not you write haiku\, you will be able to appreciate their accessibility and simplicity and find yourself opening doors and windows to companionable thoughts and feelings.  \nLinda produces a community radio program dedicated to poetry\, prose\, nonfiction literary news\, lyrics\, and the celebration of thoughts and language at KQBM Blue Mountain Radio (KQBM.org).  \nPraise for Raven Braids the Wind: \n \nLinda Toren has graced readers with her haiku meditations on the world—both the natural world and the chaotic one humans have wrought.  Her poems take us on a seasonal journey through pine forests and chicken coops\, through road-side sweet peas\, on ravens’ wings\, and through the dreams and puzzlement of modern life.  Toren’s careful attention allows the reader a window into her love and compassion for these worlds\, in all their flawed wonder.  One haiku reads “How do I gather/ the threads of my life into/ some kind of order?” Lucky for us\, in this collection\, Linda Toren does just that\, and the order revealed is deeply personal\, poignant\, and beautiful. —Gillian Wegener\, author of This Sweet Haphazard (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2017) \n  \nRaven Braids the Wind by Linda Toren is a collection of lovely and thought-provoking haiku and senryu graced with charming artwork. Toren’s haiku transport the reader into the garden\, the busy barnyard\, and the woodlands where birds\, plants\, animals\, and weather impart wisdom and elicit questions that Toren transposes into concise and musical language. Her senryu distill the vicissitudes of emotion\, recent sociopolitical perturbations\, and pandemic upheaval\, deftly portraying the human condition in clean\, contemplative lines.  The juxtaposition of these two poetic forms reflects the dichotomy of contentment and disquiet\, the eternal and the ephemeral\, in measured syllables that brilliantly convey vivid imagery and lucid observations.  Linda Toren’s Raven Braids the Wind is a treasure. –Linda Scheller\, author of Wind and Children (Main Street Rag\, June 2022) and Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press\, 2017)
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-4/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T203000
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SUMMARY:Many Voices\, One Community: Gillian Wegener and Salvatore Salerno
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center & Stanislaus County Library Present Many Voices\,  One Community\,  featuring Gillian Wegener and Salvatore Salerno\,  emeritus and current Poets Laureate of Modesto \nCelebrate National Poetry Month by sharing your poetry! Read your poetry\, or poems from one of your favorite poets. Reading time limited to three minutes per person.   \nThursday\, April 28 \nat 7 p.m. on Zoom \nRegister at www.stanislauslibrary.org to receive the Zoom link. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/many-voices-one-community-gillian-wegener-and-salvatore-salerno/
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T193000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club: Amanda Moore's Requeening
DESCRIPTION:The MoSt Poetry Book Club will continue in April with a discussion of Amanda Moore’s book Requeening (Ecco Press\, 2021). Copies can be borrowed at the reference desk of the downtown Modesto  Library. The Book Club will meet IN PERSON on Monday\, April 18 at 6:30 in the MakerSpace room. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-amanda-moores-requeening/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091739
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring the poetry of Mexican poet Ulalume González de León
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring the poetry of Mexican poet Ulalume González de León from Plagiarisms/Plagios Vol. 2 \nwith translators Terry Ehret &Nancy J. Morales and guest poet-translator William O’Daly.  \nHosted by Stella Beratlis \nZoom–RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdu-oqDktGNSizk4tQoG2D1gD0ynwn0CD. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic signup link (3 min per poet): https://forms.gle/PHW4ixpkG3U3zwJk8 \nAbout Ulalume González de León \n  \nUlalume González de León was born in 1928 in Montevideo\, Uruguay\, the daughter of two poets\, Roberto Ibañez and Sara de Ibañez. She studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Mexico. \nWhile living in Mexico in 1948\, Ulalume became a naturalized Mexican citizen. She married painter and architect Teodoro González de León\, and together they had three children. She published essays\, stories\, and poems\, and worked with Mexican poet and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz as an editor of two literary journals\, Plural and Vuelta. She also translated the work of H.D.\, Elizabeth Bishop\, Ted Hughes\, Lewis Carroll\, and e.e. cummings. \nIn the 1970’s in Latin America\, González de León was part of a generation of women writers challenging the traditional identities of women\, marriage\, and relationships. Her poetry earned her many awards\, including the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize\, the Flower of Laura Poetry Prize\, and the Alfonso X Prize. Ulalume González de León died in 2009 of respiratory failure and complications of Alzheimer’s. \nAbout the Translators\nTerry Ehret\, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press\, has published four collections of poetry\, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series\, the California Book Award\, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize\, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award\, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006\, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches writing. \nNancy J. Morales\, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents\, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College\, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University\, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University\, College of Marin\, Sonoma State University\, and other schools\, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients. \nAbout William O’Daly\nWilliam O’Daly is co-founder of Copper Canyon Press and a noted Neruda translator.
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